| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Pulitzer's School: Columbia University's School of Journalism, 1903–2003. By James Boylan. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. x, 337 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-231-13090-2.)
For journalism educators, James Boylan's history of the Columbia School of Journalism has a quality of déjà vu.	1
The story of the Columbia University program raises issues that continue to engage those in journalism education, in particular: the legitimacy of academic journalism education in the eyes both of other academics and of journalism professionals; students' poor writing; conflict between those stressing professional skills in journalism education versus those emphasizing the study of public affairs (Joseph Pulitzer's preference, by the way); students' poor writing; the struggle for resources and the nature of the relationship between journalism programs and their donors; and, of course, students' poor writing. All of these are part of the continuing story of perhaps the best-known academic program for journalists, as well as of journalism education more generally.	. . .

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