For the second time in three years, the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, one of the top three journalism schools in the country finds itself in an embarassing position: after two national searches, it still can’t find someone willing to be its permanent dean.
Two years ago, Dianne Lynch, who was dean of communications at [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
Want to be a journalism dean? Opening at UC Berkeley
Painful Lessons
The newspaper world is suffering together. The Boston Globe, once one of the great regional newspapers, with its own foreign bureaus and a very strong Washington presence, is now also bleeding money — by some accounts $1 million a week.
Now the New York Times, its owner, is demanding that the Globe’s union make major [...]
Television Troubles
So much of the focus about the travails of the media have focused on newspapers – with almost no attention paid to the trouble in television news land.
The announcement this week of the retirement of long-time KNBC newsanchor Paul Moyer in Los Angeles underscored the further transformation of the traditional local news reporting model. As [...]
Congress to newspapers: drop dead
For struggling newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle, it was a faint hope anyway that Congress would come to its rescue (if merging with Dean Singleton’s MediaNews fits your definition of “rescue.”)
In the most humiliating way possible, Congress has rejected the idea of exempting papers from anti-trust regulations, which seemed to erect an additional obstacle [...]
California Prizes
I draw some satisfaction that at least two California newspapers were among the Pulitzer Prize winners announced yesterday. Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart from the Los Angeles Times won the explanatory journalism award for an outstanding series on the wild fires that ravaged Southern California last year. Steven Breen from the San Diego Union Tribune [...]
