Mark Hansen, East Coast director of the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation and chair of the New Media Center at the Engineering School’s Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering. For a Faculty Q&A with Hansen, click here
Columbia Journalism School, founded a century ago to train generations of reporters, was only 7 years old when Pittsburgh's KDKA made the first broadcast by a licensed radio station. Its announcement that Warren Harding won the 1920 presidential election set off a cascade of changes in how news was delivered and consumed—and how it would be taught. Disruptions to the journalism business have occurred with regularity ever since. After radio came television, the death of afternoon newspapers, and the rise of cable and 24-hour television news. Now the digital revolution is upending the practice of journalism. Newspapers and magazines are vanishing amid deep cutbacks and an inexorable march onto virtual platforms. Broadcast media struggle as cable networks and the Web aim at ever narrower audiences.
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