Gore finds work as journalism tutor
Former US Vice President Al Gore is to teach at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, which administers the Pulitzer Prize.
Mr Gore will teach a course called Covering National Affairs in the Information Age, his first job since being beaten by George W Bush in the race for the White House.
The course will look at politics from the perspective of politicians and journalists, the New York-based university said.
The former vice president will join the Columbia staff as a visiting professor in February and has committed to give six to eight lectures a term, for at least two terms.
"Al Gore is an incomparable resource for our students and others at this university," said Tom Goldstein, dean of the journalism school.
"From his unique perspective, students will see how the government and media intersect."
Mr Gore was a reporter at The Tennessean in Nashville for three years in the 1970s and has long held an interest in evolving information technologies.
His spokesmen did not immediately return calls for comment.
"This is incredible for us and for any student studying journalism here," one Columbia journalism professor, Sreenath Sreenivasan, said.
"He brings his perspective from one of the most interesting elections in history and that will be part of the course."
