WEBCAST: Meet Bill Grueskin, the new Dean of Academic Affairs
On Friday, Aug. 1, 2008, Bill Grueskin, the Columbia Journalism School’s new Dean of Academic Affairs, was interviewed as part of the school’s webcast program. Grueskin, who was, most recently, deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, spoke for an hour with Sree Sreenivasan, the school’s Dean of Student Affairs, about a wide range of topics.
Among them: the role of the WSJ in American journalism; the major changes at the paper since the arrival of Robert Thomson and Rupert Murdoch (including the recent editing layoffs); advice for young journalists; the future of newspapers; how technology has changed the business; how non-techies can learn how to work in the new world; the role of editing in journalism; his career (which included a stint on a paper on a Native American reservation); and more (he also answered questions received via e-mail and chatroom).
You can listen to the hour-long conversation here or via the player below:
See the full archive of Columbia J-school 15+ webcasts with faculty, administrators, alumni and more at http://blogtalkradio.com/columbiajournalism
These are also available as downloadable MP3 files for your personal collection. If you want to subscribe to these as podcasts on iTunes, go to “Advanced” within iTunes, then select “Subscribe to podcast” and type in http://www.blogtalkradio.com/columbiajournalism/feed and hit OK.
Questions, comments to sree@sree.net
- press release - June 2008 -
COLUMBIA’S GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM NAMES BILL GRUESKIN OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AS NEW ACADEMIC DEAN
New York, NY (June 4, 2008) — Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism announced that Bill Grueskin, the Deputy Managing Editor for News at The Wall Street Journal, will assume the position of Dean of Academic Affairs beginning on September 2, 2008. Mr. Grueskin will also have the academic title of Professor of Professional Practice.
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