a tribute

Here’s the faculty tribute to seniors graduating in our department this year. ———————— I’ve often thought that to achieve our mission we only have to do two things: teach you to ask better questions and to tell better stories. These things arise naturally in our curriculum and even more naturally in our discipline. Learning to [...]

ordinary conversation

Video of a lecture I did on the role of questions in ordinary conversation.

A Thousand Cuts : CJR

Writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, Terry McDermott’s post-mortem on newspapers addresses both the style and substance. It’s a good read, and about much more than the business model. It’s more about the heart of the thing.

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