2025 - Fall

Current Problems in Journalism: The Past, Present and Future of the New York Times

Course Number: JOUR-GA 1019.001

Day & Time: Tue | 5:45 PM - 8:15 PM

Location: 20 Cooper Square, Room 655

Instructor: Jay Rosen

The Past, Present and Future of the New York Times.

Course Description: This class will improve your understanding of a unique and powerful institution in American life: the New York Times. You will learn why other journalists admire the Times— and why it draws so much criticism. (Some of it richly deserved.) We will cover its struggles and breakthroughs as a business, which today is quite profitable.

We will read books about the Times and its history. Each student will have a “beat” in which they scrutinize one part of a vast organism to become a kind of authority about it. We will hear from people who work there, and people who used to work there. They are key to understanding the culture of the place.This is a tense time in journalism. The New York Times will be in the middle of it. And so will this course.

Send an email to Prof. Jay Rosen if you are interested. jr3@nyu.edu