Columbia should have said, see you in court, not yes, Mr President. | Margaret Sullivan

Since early 2024, I’ve been running a journalism ethics center at Columbia University. So perhaps it’s no surprise that I see the university’s capitulation to Trump both in terms of journalism and ethics. I’ve never run a university, but I have run a newsroom. For 13 years (until I moved to New York City in 2012 to be the New York Times public editor), I was the chief editor of the Buffalo News, the regional newspaper in my home town. I had started there as a summer intern. As editor, I made a lot of decisions; the buck stopped at

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