NEW PALTZ — The Department of Communication and Media at the State University of New York at New Paltz will host the third annual Media Day on March 26 in The Terrace Restaurant on the New Paltz campus. At this year’s event, visiting communication and media professionals will share knowledge…
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Famous sportswriter to speak at New Paltz
NEW PALTZ — Author Roger Kahn, who is often described as the best sportswriter in America, will talk about the major influences on his writing and life in a free public lecture at the State University of New York at New Paltz on Monday, April 26, as the culmination of…
Read moreFamous sportswriter named journalism professor
NEW PALTZ — Author Roger Kahn, who is often described as the best sportswriter in America, has been named the fourth James H. Ottaway Sr. journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz. In making the announcement, college President Steven G. Poskanzer described Kahn as ?a national treasure,? citing especially Kahn’s…
Read moreJournalism student and online newspaper bring home national awards
NEW PALTZ — Andrew Hackmack, a senior journalism student at the State University of New York at New Paltz, has been awarded the Society for Collegiate Journalists (SCJ) Student Journalist of the Year Award. This national award honors an SCJ student chapter member who has represented the spirit of the…
Read moreFamous sportswriter headlines Media Day
NEW PALTZ — One of the best known sportswriters in the country will keynote this year’s media day, an all-day conference on Saturday, May 3, where practicing communication and media professionals, including several alumni, will come to share their knowledge and experiences with current and prospective students and the public. The…
Read moreThreats to journalists topic of public talk
Threats to journalists topic of public talk 03/26/2003 NEW PALTZ — On April 3, award-winning foreign correspondent Ann Cooper, who leads the nation’s foremost press freedom advocacy group, will discuss global threats to journalists in the wake of the September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. The…
Read moreDistinguished journalist to give lecture
Alexander Stille, a distinguished journalist and author, will give a lecture on the SUNY New Paltz campus, called “Italian Jews Under Fascism,” at 7 p.m. on Feb. 26, in room 100 of the Lecture Center. The lecture is sponsored by the Traverso Endowment and the Italian Studies Committee of SUNY…
Read moreLegislative Gazette celebrates 25 years of interns
This February, the Legislative Gazette, the student run newspaper dedicated to New York Government politics in Albany, will enter into the 25th year of its’ internship program. What started as a handful of students working on the first edition with only one phone, a desk and a little bit of…
Read moreMiraldi’s new book is biography of once-famous reform journalist
Journalism Professor Robert Miraldi’s new biography of a turn-of-the-century investigative reporter recreates the turbulent and controversial life of a forgotten but once-famous reform journalist. But it also finds remarkable similarities in problems found in 1903 that still plague America in 2003. The book, The Pen Is Mightier: The Muckraking Life of…
Read morePulitzer Prize winner to speak with journalism students
NEW PALTZ — Sydney Schanberg, an internationally-known reporter who won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1976, will discuss with students what the American public needs from the press in light of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the nation and the possible war with Iraq that hangs over the…
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