<p>...Mr. Brill, who was known as a tough editor at The American Lawyer, the magazine he created to dissect the legal industry and its personalities, said he considered endowing a Yale journalism program five years ago, but decided instead to teach there. (He sold The American Lawyer and Court TV in 1997 for a price said to be as much as $40 million.) The program the Brills are helping to finance, which is expected to cost several million dollars, will pay for a second journalist to teach, a counselor to help students find internships and jobs, and subsidies for needy students in low-paying journalism internships. It will also sponsor journalism-related events. </p>
<p>Each year, 15 to 25 students - both undergraduates and graduate students - will be designated Yale Journalism Scholars. They will be required to take one journalism seminar and one other writing-intensive class, participate in a summer internship and write or edit a certain number of published pieces. </p>
<p>Alfred E. Guy Jr., director of the Yale College Writing Center, which will include the journalism program, said that besides offering instruction in writing, the program would encourage students to enter journalism at a time that "the whole tone of the culture over the past 20 years has been to denigrate work that doesn't lead to instant riches." </p>
<p>Some of Mr. Brill's former students said they liked the real- world orientation in his class. </p>
<p>"Among all the classes at Yale, this is one of the most professionally oriented," said Robert Inglis, an ethics, politics and economics major from South Carolina who took the class last fall. "He is a famously tough editor but a good teacher...."</p>