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Journalism Schools Turned Away Holocaust Refugees [5min]

More than sixty years after the Holocaust, there is new, unflattering research about American journalism schools. Laurel Leff, an associate professor of Journalism at Northeastern University, talks with Robert Siegel about the failure of schools to accept German Jewish immigrants during the Holocaust.
Read entire article at NPR "All Things Considered"