NEW PALTZ – The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the State University of New York at New Paltz has selected its full- and part-time 2009-2010 Teachers of the Year. Reynolds Scott-Childress, an associate professor of History, was named the full-time Teacher of the Year. Joan Perisse was selected as the…
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Ottaway Professor of Journalism John Larson Speaks to New Paltz about the Power of Narration
NEW PALTZ – DuPont-Columbia, Peabody and multiple Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist and media consultant John Larson has been named the tenth James H. Ottaway Sr. Professor of Journalism at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Larson will join the faculty in the Spring 2011 semester to teach a seminar…
Read moreAward-winning broadcast journalist named next Ottaway Professor of Journalism
NEW PALTZ – DuPont-Columbia, Peabody and multiple Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist and media consultant John Larson has been named the tenth James H. Ottaway Sr. Professor of Journalism at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Larson will join the faculty in the Spring 2011 semester to teach a seminar…
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Ottaway professor embraces a journalism career
NEW PALTZ, NY — A steady snowfall did not stop nearly 100 people, mostly students, from attending the introduction of SUNY New Paltz’s seventh James H. Ottaway Sr. professor of journalism, Martin Gottlieb, an award-winning investigative reporter who is the current weekend editor of The New York Times. Gottlieb proclaimed…
Read moreCritic calls media a "weapon of mass distraction"
Media critic Jeff Cohen asked SUNY New Paltz students what it means when the “two most influential news shows” in America – “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart and “The Colbert Report” – are on the nation’s Comedy Channel. His answer, in short, was that corporate news has increasingly become…
Read moreFamous journalist returns to teach
Sydney H. Schanberg, an internationally known reporter who won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1976, will teach a class on “Democracy and the Press” this spring at the College at New Paltz. Schanberg’s class is open to a select few students from both the Honors Program and the Journalism…
Read moreEd Carroll Offers 7 Tips to Success for Students
Ed Carroll, a 1985 graduate of the college who is now the president of a major cable television network, gave students seven tips to a path to success in a recent visit to New Paltz. And his first tip was one all of the students had already acted on: he…
Read moreNew Communication Professor Truly Enjoys Researching
Jason Wrench, the newest Communication and Media professor at SUNY New Paltz, says he always wanted to be a teacher. He was born in San Jose, California and raised mostly in Lubbock, Texas. There was a lot of traveling in Professor Wrench’s youth because his parents were in the Navy. But…
Read moreNewest Journalism Professor Focuses on Cultural Journalism
Will Hermes, who was born and raised in Queens, has written for The New York Times, Spin Magazine, and The Village Voice. But now he is the newest faculty member in the Journalism Program here at SUNY New Paltz and the writing skills that he has brought to big-name magazines…
Read moreInvestigative reporter and New York Times editor named next Ottaway Professor of Journalism
Martin Gottlieb, an award-winning investigative reporter and long-time editor at The New York Times, has been named the seventh James H. Ottaway Sr. Professor of Journalism. Martin Gottlieb, an award-winning investigative reporter and long-time editor at The New York Times, has been named the seventh James H. Ottaway Sr. Professor of…
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