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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged gurus

1. October 9, 2012 01:51 PM

   Neutron Jack: ‘I quit!’

   Welch ends Fortune and Reuters contracts after tough coverage

   By Ryan Chittum

   I've long wondered why business magazines run Jack Welch's columns. BusinessWeek ran it for years but stopped a month after Bloomberg bought the magazine and installed Josh Tyrangiel as editor. As Tyrangiel later told Capital New York, "There was a lot management guru bullshit, to be honest. A lot of stuff about finding the best you, and I just thought,...

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2. November 9, 2011 03:40 PM

   The Blessings of Networks

   Emily Bell takes on Dean Starkman’s “news gurus” argument

   By Emily Bell

   Dean Starkman's long read on 'the news gurus' in the Columbia Journalism Review starts out with the story of the remarkable Ida Tarbell, a template for the modern investigative reporter, whose work in 1904 took on Rockefeller's Standard Oil. He tells us about Tarbell to remind us how different journalism has become—and inevitably so. While acknowledging that those days have...

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