"We need stop doing dumb things and start doing smart things. To use a baseball analogy, humanity is in the seventh inning and down by two runs."
AP | Posted 04.03.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — Media mogul Oprah Winfrey has received a leadership award from Columbia University. University officials say the talk show host rece...
Abi Wright | Posted 04.02.2009 | Media
As reported in the New York Times Monday, circulation at cooking magazines is going up as the stock market goes down. Ruth Reichl advised journalism students to specialize.
Abi Wright | Posted 03.28.2009 | Media
"We're not against orgasms, we just don't put them on the cover," Joanna Coles explained to the audience of Columbia journalism students who attended this week's Delacorte Lecture.
Abi Wright | Posted 03.19.2009 | Media
As magazines fall by the wayside, Brown explained, there would be a natural selection of sorts, which would force the surviving mags to be more inventive and thoughtful, "less formulaic."
Abi Wright | Posted 03.12.2009 | Media
Saying these are "the best of times and the worst of times" for journalism, Couric listed the growing number of urgent stories to cover with a dwindling number of resources to cover them.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
First President Obama wasn't "black enough" for the black left. Then he was "too centrist" in his appointments for the white left. Then he wasn't gay friendly enough. Now he is President.
David Quigg | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
Khalidi is a big-time professor. Which is to say that, until quite recently, he was someone most of us had never heard of. But then John McCain picked Professor Khalidi's new Halloween costume.
Steve Clemons | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics
This debate over oil and energy policy disgusts me because both Obama and McCain are trying to force short term, knee jerk responses to a major policy challenge for the nation.
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
The State of Israel has refused to give permission to three Gazan Fulbright Scholars to travel to the USA. One of them is supposed to attend Columbia in the fall.
Janet Ritz | Posted 07.15.2008 | Green
Hansen opens with current climate status: the loss of sea ice, the approaching tipping points, the effects on people and wildlife, the unstoppable sea level rise, shifting of climate zones and more.
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business
Sachs described our current economic situation as "intentional" and pointed fingers at Alan Greenspan, The Fed, and an unpopular and weak administration that is "financing a war that nobody supports."
Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.01.2009 | Green