Media News - Tuesday, January 31, 2012
US: Media innovation goes bicoastal
A USD 30m gift from legendary editor Helen Gurley Brown will fund a
joint program between Columbia University's Graduate School of
Journalism and Stanford University's School of Engineering.
The donation, announced Monday, establishes the David and Helen Gurley
Brown Institute for Media Innovation, a program with the purpose of
bridging journalism and technology. Each school will receive USD 12m
for the program to fund professorships and fellowships for students.
In addition, Columbia will receive an additional USD 6m to fund a
building renovation to create a high-tech newsroom for students at the
journalism school's Morningside Heights campus. It is the largest gift in the history of the graduate school and
represents a large step forward in efforts to advance digital journalism
and marry technology and media, said Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia's
Graduate School of Journalism. The gift is about two years in the making and represents an unusual
collaboration between the two universities which was driven,
specifically, by Ms. Brown's wishes. No other such bicoastal,
cross-discipline institute exists, according to the university
officials. (Wall Street Journal)
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