I interrupt this adoring profile — which, don't worry, we'll poke lots of holes in later — to return to the realm of real world, where it's the facts, not the rhetoric, that counts.
Which brings us to the as-yet-unrevealed departure of Medill's D.C. Newsroom director, Ron Cohen. He's leaving, effective immediately, and he's not going quietly into that good night. From his post on the United Press International listserv:
thanks for outpointing the chicago mag piece on medill. i can say without
hesitation that it fails completely to reflect the depth of the turmoil sweeping
both the journ school and many parts of northwestern as a whole. this guy is
going to ruin the franchise of a terrific journalism program, and i am certain
that yesterday was my last day affiliated with the washington semester -- my
strengths, teaching reporting and writing, are no longer of value in the dean's
overall scheme of things.
John Lavine, you are so screwed! Hmm, is it time to start the deathwatch? I do so love deathwatches, and what with a few more of these untidy adieus and perhaps even our lovably braindead president may take note.
Anyways. Medill will be making this public in...
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Don't be so sure Lavine is on his way out. Bienen and Dumas, the former provost, are contemptuous of journalism education. What do they wish Medill were more like? Let's just say it's a brand of cereal. It'll likely require a new university president before Medill reverses course.
*Let's just say it's also the name of a brand of cereal.
P.S. If you have that email of Rob Cohen's, maybe you should forward it to jromenesko@poynter.org. You know, that guy who writes the famous media blog.
What if there was a Medill intern at Chicago mag who had to factcheck this? ...awkward...
If there was such an intern, it would make a lovely post, no? That's why we have an e-mail address.
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