J-school student calls out dean

A columnist at the Daily Northwestern called out the dean of the Medill journalism school, one of the top J-schools in the country, for fabricating a quote for the school's alumni magazine. Click on the headline above for a link of the story or read below.

At first mention, it sounds like a pretty gutsy move by the student to call his dean a liar, but if you read towards the bottom of the story it explains how the student went about investigating what he believed before putting it in print. Bang up job by him to do his homework. I found this via Romenesko so hopefully we'll hear if the dean has a response.

http://blogs.chicagoreader.com/news-bites/2008/02/12/did-medills-dean-lavine-make-quote/