In May’s “The Story So Far” (also available as a downloadable pdf), the Columbia School of Journalism’s Bill Grueskin, Ava Seave and Lucas Graves all but conclude there is not a sustainable business model to support top-quality journalism at current levels. They see at least three main factors upsetting journalism’s business model: Audiences’ expectation of […]

Paris, 1927. For 100,000 francs, author Georges Simenon agrees to write a novel while suspended in a glass cage outside the Moulin Rouge. Passersby would contribute subject, characters and title. A newspaper backs the stunt and pays Simenon a 25,000 franc advance. For a moment, it was the talk of Paris. Then the newspaper went

Veteran journalism professor Jay Rosen on four things he’s learned after 25 years of teaching: The more people who participate in the press the stronger it will be. The profession of journalism went awry when it began to adopt the View from Nowhere. The news system will improve when it is made more useful to

In a review of Mark McGurl’s book “The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing,” N+1’s Chad Harbach offers a clever, tangential attack on MFA culture. His basic premise is this: there are two distinct literary cultures in America: MFA vs. NYC. And NYC is better. There were 79 degree-granting programs in