Medill it All Up: 'Hidden Sources' for College Promotional Magazine?
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Jesus leaves Chicago--and there's a New Dean in town where student's identities need to be protected when giving their positive sentiment in their own school's own glossy publication
Its a story of hidden sources, POWER, the potential RISE and FALL from the top--and one journalist's quest for the truth in a dangerously political environment in which others are too scared to speak out.
Will this bring a much ACHOO'd institution to its knees?
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Its a story of hidden sources, POWER, the potential RISE and FALL from the top--and one journalist's quest for the truth in a dangerously political environment in which others are too scared to speak out.
Will this bring a much ACHOO'd institution to its knees?
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And then the Chicago Tribune picked it up... -
And then... the Sun Times is waiving its finger at you... if Ebbert gives you Two Thumbs down--well then... -
I'd love to be tactful, but I'd rather be truthful. I knew Dean Lavine was bad news from his first day forward, while I was still a student. Nice to see the head of a prestigious journalism school isn't familiar with the art of fact-checking...
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Oh--and dont forget to listen to this... thanks ZZ? -
Gawker has the GLOSSY article in QUESTION! -
I am familiar with those 'glossy' articles, because the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences sends a similar glossy publication out to its alumni and, uh, to my mom. Seriously, in the four years since I graduated from Northwestern, my mom has become *so* much better connected with campus events than I.
To Dean Lavine's credit, those glossy publications are a total joke. But I did not know, until now, about Medill's new dean; moreover, I did not know about the controversy he aroused when he insisted on teaching his journalism students about matters of marketing. But even for someone like me, someone who has never studied actual journalism at a college level, I can see that matters of 'conflict of interest' can become sticky. (In my job and because of my 'journalistic' proximity to the tech sector, I am not allowed to hold technology stock, nor is my family.)
The Gawker link is especially damning, though, because it confirms that, compounded with all matters of integrity, Dean Lavine is a pretty terrible writer.
I love the Sun-Times op/ed -- and kudos to them for running with the story -- but when they conclude by telling Lavine to submit his letter to the "fiction division" of Northwestern's English department, I say, don't bother. I know those professors; none of my ilk would accept that tripe. -
Check out this blog created by Medill School of Journalism students in response to the dean's unnamed sources. The blog includes links to all the mainstream media coverage of the issue and an exclusive interview with Daily columnist David Spett, who broke the story.
The goal of the blog is to engage as many people as possible from the Medill School of Journalism community to discuss their concerns about the issue of the dean's anonymous sourcing, as well as other recent changes in the journalism school. We hope this blog will foster constructive conversation about these topics. -
Faculty letter--with NAMED SIGNATORS, demanding transparency from Dean Lavine on the unidentified sources -
Burn! That is a grade-A zing!
I am getting nervous, though -- this guy is going to be made into an example, in a major Martha Stewart way. And that makes me sort of sad, because I doubt he's a villainous guy.
That isn't stopping me from forwarding the faculty letter to every Medill grad I know, though.
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