CJR Web Editors Quit In Protest After Online Budgets Slashed By Dean

Dean Lemann said the Web site hadn’t raised enough money the online staff. Two editors quit in protest. It may sound somewhat like the setup to a deliciously bad college movie, but it’s all-too-real for the Columbia Journalism Review.

Via the New York Times:

The managing editor of CJRDaily.org, an online adjunct of The Columbia Journalism Review, and his deputy both quit yesterday after the dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism told them he was cutting the site’s budget nearly in half.

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