When journalism was a working class profession & there were no journalism schools it was a better country. #gotnews #NYPD

— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) December 23, 2014

How far back does researcher extraordinaire, upchuck want to go?

The first program for journalism education was introduced by former Confederate General, Robert E. Lee, during his presidency at Washington and Lee University, in Lexington, Virginia, in the 1860s. Both the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri founded by Walter Williams in 1908 and the Ecole Superieure de Journalisme in Paris, France founded in 1899 claim to be the world’s first journalism school. Although Paris’s school opened its doors in 1899 after three years of internal debates, the question was discussed in Missouri since 1895

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