By Michael Bugeja
Earlier this month, the chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Phil DiStefano, announced his institution would explore discontinuation of the journalism school, noting that a committee has been formed to consider how to organize a new “information, communication and technology program.”
In Inside Higher Ed’s report on this news, “Starting from Scratch,” the university’s journalism dean, Paul Voakes, is quoted as saying: “We’ve got a choice of going along, doing what most journalism and mass communication programs do, and we’ve also been presented with the opportunity to really take some risks and go out there and declare that there is a new type of journalism education that integrates new kinds of thinking.”
Here’s a thought: Is “a new type of journalism” a half-truth to obfuscate what really happened at Colorado’s journalism school?
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