Columbia Journalism Review Editor Alleges He Was Fired for Insisting on Ethics, Deadlines
“recently started a new job at the University of Southern California as a senior fellow in its Annenberg communications school”
He also believes people should show up to work in the office. The horror.
The College Fix reports:
Columbia Journalism Review editor fired after insisting on ethics, deadlines: report
The Columbia Journalism Review fired Sewell Chan as its executive editor after he insisted on ethics, deadlines, and showing up in the office for work, the longtime journalist alleges. A journalism expert told The College Fix that it seems Chan acted appropriately and within his bounds as the executive editor.
Chan, who recently started a new job at the University of Southern California as a senior fellow in its Annenberg communications school, alleges the school fired him after “three pointed conversations.”
Chan (pictured) is the former editor of the Texas Tribune and also worked for the Los Angeles Times and New York Times.
“One was with a fellow who is passionately devoted to the cause of the Gaza protests at Columbia and had covered the recent detention of a Palestinian graduate for an online publication he had just written about, positively, for CJR,” Chan wrote in a LinkedIn post.
“I told him there was a significant ethical problem with writing for an outlet he had just covered,” Chan wrote.
This description fits CJR Journalism Fellow Meghnad Bose, who wrote an article about the Substack page Drop Site News for Columbia Journalism Review in February.
In late March, Bose wrote an article for Drop Site about Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate and Palestinian activist, arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on March 8. The article quotes Khalil’s claim that his arrest was a “direct consequence of exercising [his] right to free speech as [he] advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza.”
Bose did not respond to two emails sent in the past week that asked about the accuracy of Chan’s statements on what happened.
While Chan declined to comment further to The Fix, a journalism professor at DePauw University said, “it would seem [Chan] has a good point in trying to reel in the apparent conflict of interest for the one fellow.”
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Columbia School of Journalism – Training progressive propagandists since forever.
If you worried about ethics, the whole “pro-Palestinian” thing would collapse. Can’t have that, can we?