Lavine to succeed Ghiglione as Medill journalism school dean

Romenesko Misc.
John Lavine (left), founding director of Northwestern’s Media Management Center, will become the new dean of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism on January 9, 2006. “There are seismic challenges in journalism that put at risk having an informed society,” he says. “Moving quality journalism to a new, higher level is an important first step of our response, but by itself that will not meet these challenges. We need to develop a more profound understanding of audiences and consumers, of what they value and of how to present journalism and the new digital media to them. Lavine succeeds Loren Ghiglione.