Sorry I haven't posted in awhile, I've been a little busy.
Webster University has recently decided they don't care about academic prestige, journalism or the City of St. Louis.
That's a bold lead but it's true.
Just read on.
The St. Louis Journalism Review was founded in 1970 by Charles Klotzer. In 1995 Klotzer turned over ownership of the Review to Webster University.
The basic function of any journalism review is to monitor and critique the news media. Reviews keep journalists on their toes and make sure that they operate in an ethical manner. This is important because a democracy cannot function properly without an efficient press, hence the First Amendment.
However reviews don't make a lot of money. In fact they have a tendency to be a financial burden. So it probably wouldn't surprise you to find out that very few journalism reviews are in print in the United Sates.
The actual number is 3.
The Columbia Journalism Review, The American Journalism Review and The St. Louis Journalism Review.
So the City of St. Louis is home to one of the last remaining journalism reviews in the United States. That's something to be proud of.
You'd think that Webster University would be more than happy to support the Review. It puts them in the same league as the prestigious Columbia University, a school that Webster can't even compare too.
You thought wrong.
Webster had been subsidizing the journal between $35,000 and $50,000 every year for the last 11 years. They decided that the best way to cut that cost would be to take the Review out of print and make it solely available online.
The Board of the Review thought this would destroy the credibility of the journal and refused to cooperate.
That's when Webster cut the funding and ownership of the Review was returned to Klotzer.
The future of the Review is now in question.
Webster University has recently decided they don't care about academic prestige, journalism or the City of St. Louis.
That's a bold lead but it's true.
Just read on.
The St. Louis Journalism Review was founded in 1970 by Charles Klotzer. In 1995 Klotzer turned over ownership of the Review to Webster University.
The basic function of any journalism review is to monitor and critique the news media. Reviews keep journalists on their toes and make sure that they operate in an ethical manner. This is important because a democracy cannot function properly without an efficient press, hence the First Amendment.
However reviews don't make a lot of money. In fact they have a tendency to be a financial burden. So it probably wouldn't surprise you to find out that very few journalism reviews are in print in the United Sates.
The actual number is 3.
The Columbia Journalism Review, The American Journalism Review and The St. Louis Journalism Review.
So the City of St. Louis is home to one of the last remaining journalism reviews in the United States. That's something to be proud of.
You'd think that Webster University would be more than happy to support the Review. It puts them in the same league as the prestigious Columbia University, a school that Webster can't even compare too.
You thought wrong.
Webster had been subsidizing the journal between $35,000 and $50,000 every year for the last 11 years. They decided that the best way to cut that cost would be to take the Review out of print and make it solely available online.
The Board of the Review thought this would destroy the credibility of the journal and refused to cooperate.
That's when Webster cut the funding and ownership of the Review was returned to Klotzer.
The future of the Review is now in question.
I think that Webster has made a bad decision.
By ending their relationship with the Review they have sacrificed academic prestige and have also taken away a point of pride for the City of St. Louis.
That's just a shame.
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