The celebrated New Yorker staff writer sat for a wide-ranging interview to kick off his second year as Columbia Journalism School’s first Black dean. “The fact that we have navigated through these kinds of civic crises before,” he says, “doesn’t mean we should have a blasé attitude about confronting one now.”
“I told her when I got appointed,” says Cobb, “if you wanted to set up a really shady consulting firm telling people, ‘I can make you a journalism school dean,’ you probably have a track record to support it.”Lee Bollinger,
Columbia University's longtime president until this past spring. On August 16, which happened to be the first day of classes for the 2023–2024 school year, I schlepped up to Morningside Heights to spend an hour chatting in Cobb’s office at Pulitzer Hall. Wearing a sharp beige suit neatly fitted to his bearish frame, he looked the part of someone who now requires a chief of staff and an executive assistant to help manage his demanding schedule.
Cobb’s orchestra includes curriculum development, faculty recruitment, tenure reviews, research, budgeting, and, of course, the actual rearing of journalists. But he’s laser focused on one of the more challenging movements of the J-school symphony: tuition reform.” on the Columbia Journalism School website, only to feel their blood pressure hit the roof when they see a dollar sign next to the number 126,691.
“Anybody who’s in and around media knows that it’s hard to stay in this field,” says Cobb. “This is a point where we have to intervene, to do what we can to make it possible for people to get a high caliber journalism-school education, and also be able to afford a journalism career.” Columbia’s existing financial aid and scholarship packages apparently aren’t enough. “We are fundraising. We are doubling and tripling down around scholarships.
Cobb said it was too early to talk about other ideas he’s exploring. But his ultimate objective, he told me, is to cover the full cost of tuition for low-income students while expanding the reimbursement options for those who are better positioned to take out loans. “There’s a correlation between socioeconomics, and ethnic and racial background. So we see that the numbers in terms of diversity in the field reflect that same dynamic.
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