June 14, 2001

Facts Were Misstated in Column on Foundations, Journalism

To the Editor:

Although I was a subject of his reporting, Rick Edmonds did not talk to me in preparing "Foundations and Journalism: an Awkward Fit" (My View, May 3l). If he had, you would have been spared the embarrassment of some serious mistakes on his part.

Let's begin with the Florence and John Schumann Foundation's $2-million grant to the Columbia Journalism Review. I was (and remain) the president of the

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