Pulitzer's School: Columbia University's School of Journalism, 1903-2003

James Boylan

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November, 2003
Cloth, 337 pages, 32 Photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-13090-5
$50.00 / £34.50

Preface

Introduction

I Have Selected Columbia

Schools for Journalists?

Dealing with a Wild Man

A Posthumous Affair

We Will Start Right Away

A Building Called Journalism

What Journalism Will Do to Columbia

If Sedition Is to Be Excluded

Red Apple and Maraschino Cherry

The First Dean

Ackerman Hails Stand of Press

The Graduate School

Speaking to Cabots

My Dear Dean

Outpost in Chungking

Sweat and Tears

Postwar Ventures

The Dean and the Prizes

Training Ground

The Pulitzer Mandate

From Dropout to Dean

Short-Changed

Why a Review?

Era of Expansion

Edging Toward the Abyss

Fallout

Desperately Seeking a Dean

Welcome to the Joint

Hohenberg and the Prizes

Meeting Fatigue

It Appears You Have a New Dean

CJR-From New Management to Old

Sour Apples

Showdown

To the Exits

The Conglomerate

Deans' Row

Trying to Stretch the Year

Clearly Insufficient

Has the Pulitzer Idea Survived?

On Sources

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Journalism & Media Studies

About the Author

James Boylan is professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he taught journalism and history from 1979 to 1991. He was previously a member of the journalism faculty at Columbia (1957-1979), and was the founding editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. He has also edited an anthology drawn from Pulitzer's New York World, and was a Pulitzer Prize juror.

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