Mediagazer: ‘Columbia Journalism Review’ will leave Columbia campus, take Midtown offices (Joe Pompeo/Capital New York)

5:30 PM ET, April 23, 2012

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‘Columbia Journalism Review’ will leave Columbia campus, take Midtown offices — The Columbia Journalism Review is leaving Morningside Heights. — The bimonthly journal is in the “final stages” of negotiating office space in a building “right off Times Square,” said Nicholas Lemann …

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