NEW PALTZ — Award-winning reporter Ann Cooper, who currently heads up the foremost advocacy group in the world that seeks to protect endangered journalists, has been named the third James H. Ottaway Sr. Professor of Journalism at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Cooper will…
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Student newspaper launches online edition
NEW PALTZ — Beginning Sept. 12, SUNY New Paltz students, faculty, staff, alumni, prospective students and the world will be able to read the already established print version of The Oracle, the student newspaper, online. President of the Student Association Jonathan Amoia believes the benefits are limitless. “The online…
Read moreGood’s book examines the portrayal of journalists in films
NEW PALTZ — Journalism professor Howard Good’s seventh book, which examines how journalists are portrayed in the movies, will be published this month by Praeger Publishers. It is entitled “Media Ethics Goes to the Movies” and is intended to be used as a text for classes in media ethics….
Read moreFamous sportswriter to speak with students
NEW PALTZ — Roger Kahn, who has been called the best baseball writer in America, will discuss his recently completed book on the 1978 New York Yankees while visiting with students from a literary journalism class at SUNY New Paltz on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 12:30 p.m. in Jacobson Faculty…
Read moreMedia Day at SUNY New Paltz: Break into News!
NEW PALTZ — To all those seeking to “break into news,” the SUNY New Paltz Society for Collegiate Journalists is holding its annual Media Day on Saturday, May 4 to promote interest in the field of journalism and offer advice on what the future holds for today’s journalism student….
Read moreSUNY New Paltz student newspaper staffers win New York Press Association awards
NEW PALTZ — State University of New York at New Paltz students Melissa Mansfield of Poughkeepsie and Joe Burke of Huntington have received top honors from the New York Press Association for their writing in the student newspaper, The Oracle. Mansfield received first place in column writing and Burke…
Read moreSymposium speakers address writing in response to terrorism
NEW PALTZ — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bernard Stein and poet Robert Polito will speak at a writing symposium Thursday, April 18 at the State University of New York at SUNY New Paltz. The symposium, titled “Language as Power: Writing in Response to Terrorism,” is an annual event sponsored by…
Read moreThe media and ‘America’s new war’
NEW PALTZ — In the wake of the terror attacks of Sept 11, there has been much talk about the alleged conflict between patriotism and journalism. Jeff Cohen, founder of the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, the co-author of “Wizards of Media Oz: Behind the Curtain of Mainstream…
Read moreSUNY New Paltz Campus TV Station and Student Grab National Award (10/18/2001)
NEW PALTZ — Kleber Delgado, a SUNY New Paltz senior, is one of only five college students selected nationwide to receive the Scripps Howard Most Valuable Staffer Award. This recognition includes a $10,000 monetary contribution to be split equally between the student and the SUNY New Paltz TV Station,…
Read moreAnother Pulitzer winner named Ottaway Fellow
NEW PALTZ — NOTICE TO EDITORS: Bernard Stein will be the guest of honor at a reception and media availability at 5 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 24 in Room 54 of the Coykendall Science Building. Bernard L. Stein, who won the Pulitzer Prize in journalism in 1998 for his…
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