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Topic: Miscellaneous items
Date/Time: 8/11/2006 11:38:45 AM
Title: Columbia j-school dean on CJR and its website
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
Statement from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism dean Nick Lemann regarding CJR Daily

In 2004, thanks to the generosity of a consortium of foundations, we were given a wonderful opportunity to start a Web site called Campaign Desk -- a branch of Columbia Journalism Review that monitored the press coverage of the last presidential campaign. When the campaign ended, we turned Campaign Desk into an ongoing, general-purpose site called CJRDaily. We did this on a wing and a prayer, because we did not have funding commitments in hand to keep the staff at the size it was during the campaign indefinitely.

We have had considerable success in fundraising for Columbia Journalism Review, but not so much that we can keep CJRDaily at the same editorial budget it has had, so we are going to reduce that budget, with regret. But even after the reduction, CJR will have the most substantial Web reporting and writing staff of any publication its size that I know of. We are making that commitment because we believe so deeply in the journalistic promise of the Web, even though, as everybody in journalism knows, it does not yet produce revenues commensurate with its quality. Our goal for Columbia Journalism Review, under the leadership of Victor Navasky, it that it be, in print and on the Web, as strong a media monitor as we can make it on the resources we have.

I understand Steve Lovelady and Bryan Keefer's reasons for leaving, although I wish they would not, and I am grateful to them for getting CJR's Web version off to such a strong start.

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