Daily Archives: 1 April 2009

Q: Do schools help make better journos? A: Yes

The newly launched magazine Careers360 has an interview with Professor Sreenath Sreenivasan, dean of student affairs, and professor, Columbia Journalism School: You were an established journalist when you had applied to Columbia. Do schools help in becoming better journalists? “I had 300 bylines when I had applied to Columbia University. Learning on-the-job is crucial, but…

How media misses the poll woods for the trees

RAJEEV RAO writes from Bangalore: Watching the coverage of the 2009 general elections the last few days, I am struck by how little coverage there is in the electronic media on any governance issue that really matters. It is all about alliances, breakups, hate speeches, Varun Gandhi, criminals, Sanjay Dutt, who will be prime minister,…