J-School

“The bizarre aspects of covering race as America’s neuroses show themselves is in high relief in an election year,” Ray Suarez, senior correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, said as he opened an address to an audience gathered for a panel discussion at the Graduate School of Journalism Thursday evening.

He sauntered into the Journalism School’s lecture hall on Friday, wearing a three-piece black suit, a large cross around his neck, and the requisite red ring. “Thank you for dressing more like a Cardinal than me,” he said, his blue eyes gleaming, to a woman in the front row wearing a bright scarlet suit and a matching cap.

Columbia Journalism School professor and author David Hajdu spoke about his new book, The Ten-Cent Plague, in an interview last night at Book Culture. The book centers on the history, implications, and demise of the American comic book industry during the mid-1900s.

As administrators of the School of International and Public Affairs consider streamlining the school’s academic structure, the international media concentration faces an identity crisis and a hazy future.

A partially completed café opened this week between Furnald Hall and the Graduate School of Journalism, making it the latest development in the ongoing renovation of the Journalism building. The main component of the project, the construction of the Stabile Student Center, has been finished since November.