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"We created a generation of automatons who don’t know how to talk to voters," says a labor organizer. Nicholas Lemann on a Democratic party trying to learn to connect. @NewYorker @NicholasLemann newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…


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Nicholas Lemann reports on the Democrats across the country who are transforming their identity to retain the working-class voters the Party has been losing. newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…


Fellow Journalists: This is a free three-day seminar that will enable you to raise your game, by teaching you how social scientists think and do research, and how to find and understand social science findings that are pertinent to whatever story you're working on.

The Social Science Summer Institute for Journalists, organized by @NicholasLemann and @taliwoodward, is accepting applications until April 1, 2019: russellsage.org/social-science…

RussellSageFdn's tweet image. The Social Science Summer Institute for Journalists, organized by @NicholasLemann and @taliwoodward, is accepting applications until April 1, 2019: russellsage.org/social-science…


…and @Terrence_McCoy wrote this, from Cambodia: amazon.com/Playground-Kin…. Check out his more recent work in The Washington Post.


…and @JacobKushner wrote this: amazon.com/Chinas-Congo-P…. (We're lucky in being able, often, to send people all over the world to report).


I'm back touting thesis projects from our MA Politics concentration. @NaomiZeveloff wrote this: guernicamag.com/features/the-f…


…and more to come over the next couple of days….


A couple of quick stories about thesis projects I've advised in the MA Politics concentration (new tweet coming):


This is the time of year when we are recruiting our next class. This week we are focusing on the concentration where I teach, Politics.


…and been published as books and magazines and made into films. And they're also, by now, a tight, global alumni network.


The long thesis projects they produce have taken them all over the world, from Darfur to Sri Lanka to the West Bank….


Instead of concentrating on skills associated with a delivery system, like television or newspapers, the students focus on a subject.


Today our program isn't so new. We are celebrated a big birthday. We have graduated hundreds of students from dozens of countries.


….which was the side arguing that journalists should be trained to write about complicated subjects with confidence and authority.


Ten years ago, we welcomed the first class in a new degree program at Columbia, which we created in sympathy with one side of the debate:


The debate was over, first, whether education for journalists was a good idea, and, second, over what it should be.


Back in 1903, Joseph Pulitzer gave $1 million to Columbia University to create a school of journalism. That set off a very durable debate.


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