Rev. Sun Myung Moon wants to buy the Washington Times back from his son:
Moon wants to buy the Times back from his son Preston Moon, who has threatened to shut down the foundering broadsheet altogether, said Charles Sutherland, the Times’s former director of development and promotions, who was laid off in May.
Times sources said Moon, who is 90, has tapped Dong Moon Joo, the former Times chairman who was ousted last year by Preston Moon, to purchase and run the paper. Messages left at Joo’s home and with his attorney were not returned Tuesday.
In Colorado, the University of Colorado may shut down its journalism department and reopen it as a school of information:
More than 30 schools of information, existing under various names, have been created at universities across the country, including the University of California’s Berkeley campus, Rutgers, the University of Indiana in Bloomington, Cornell and Carnegie Mellon.
“News and communications transmission as well as the role of the press and journalism in a democratic society are changing at a tremendous pace,” Chancellor DiStefano said in a news release. “We must change with it.”
Mama, don’t let your child go into journalism.
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