Loss of newspaper environmental reporters costly to the public
On the same day that The New York Times said (buried in its Media Decoder blog) that it would cut 100 newsroom jobs (again), Columbia University said it would not accept applications next year for its dual-degree graduate program in environmental journalism . The former is no surprise; the latter is a sad sign of the impact of newsroom job cuts on what news gets reported — or not. In a letter to faculty, the directors of the program wrote: As you know, media organizations across t
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