I ran into Stephen Dougherty, a Director of Admissions and Student affairs from the CUNY graduate program in journalism, at the SXSWi trade show.  He mentioned that a colleauge of his had recently visited Texas State and was impressed with the program’s adoption of New Media.

CUNY was recently in the spotlight when New York magazine published an article titled Columbia J-School’s Existential Crisis.  The New York Times just announced that they will be partnering with CUNY students on a project called “The Local,” which is a “hyperlocal blog experiment.”  There was a lot of uproar over the article because Times was allegedly snubbing the more illustrious Columbia j-school.

Dougherty told me that while they are happy to be receiving the attention, but there were certain inaccuracies in the article.  Columbia was actually involved in the project.  Dougherty said that CUNY’s program is only 5 years old, so its a little easier for them to adapt to the changing media landscape