Columbia University’s journalism program is developing a new website that will function as a year-round, standalone news outlet focused on NYC , which the J-school’s dean of academic affairs and ex-Wall Street Journal managing editor Bill Grueskin called “our local hometown of 8.3 million people.” The website, which is still in the planning stage, will be organized by topic such as health, crime and government spending, an article on Harvard‘s Nieman Journalism Lab site said.
The proposed site will operate year round, not on the semester system like other journalism school websites, and to help make it happen Columbia will establish a new post-graduate fellowship program, which will allow students to stay on throughout the year to produce content. The site will also create “a real audience for for the journalists to interact with,” so important in the age of “user engagement.”
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