I think my job is to convey the excitement and just to, you know, I believe in journalism education. And there's always these days, there is a strong strain of cynicism and apocalyptic thinking among people who are already in journalism. So I really believe in this. We have, we are a young school, we've been around for 15 years, but our alumni are doing great work. Many of them are part of this new generation that is really change makers, not just particularly practitioners.
Graciela Mochkofsky is a writer for The New Yorker and dean of CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. She has written six nonfiction books in Spanish. Her new book, her first in English, is The Prophet of the Andes.
“It connects with me as a journalist, actually — it’s this idea of just seeking truth and how elusive that is. So this is a person who thinks he can get to the true meaning of God and of how he needs to live. And he thinks that by asking the right questions, and by reading, and reading, and reading, and by discussing collectively, he can get to the truth. And he can’t.”
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