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,…
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Another 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…
Read moreCampus Paper at ‘Head of Class’
NEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz’ student-run newspaper, The Oracle, recently won second place in the Society for Collegiate Journalists Awards for general excellence. This is the second consecutive award for the Oracle, which won third place in 1999. In addition to the general excellence award, Oracle reporter Melissa…
Read moreJournalists headline writing forum
NEW PALTZ — A symposium on critical writing will be held at SUNY New Paltz on Tuesday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m. The event will take place in the auditorium of the Coykendall Science Building. The panelists for the forum will be Sydney Schanberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and visiting…
Read moreSpangler shows news documentary
NEW PALTZ — Professor Lynn Spangler’s compelling documentary on the life of Hudson Valley legend Sojourner Truth will be premiered on Thursday, March 1, at the State University of New York at New Paltz. The showing is free and open to the public. Truth was born into slavery in Ulster…
Read moreSpangler shows news documentary
NEW PALTZ — Professor Lynn Spangler’s compelling documentary on the life of Hudson Valley legend Sojourner Truth will be premiered on Thursday, March 1, at the State University of New York at New Paltz. The showing is free and open to the public. Truth was born into slavery in Ulster…
Read moreLegislative Gazette Appoints New Editor
NEW PALTZ — The Legislative Gazette, the weekly newspaper of New York state government and SUNY New Paltz’s semester-long internship program in public affairs journalism in Albany, has hired a new editor to replace Glenn Doty, who retired in December after 23 years with the newspaper. John Bechtel, who…
Read moreMiraldi and Good contribute to New Muckraking Anthology
Robert Miraldi (Communication & Media) has edited an anthology, The Muckrakers: Evangelical Crusaders, which will be published in fall 2000 by Greenwood Press. It is a collection of articles about turn-of-the-century investigative reporting. Miraldi wrote the book’s introduction and also contributed a chapter. Howard Good (Communication & Media) authored the…
Read moreNew Book on Journalistic Stereotypes
NEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz professor Howard Good’s latest book, The Drunken Journalist: The Biography of a Film Stereotype, has recently been published by Scarecrow Press. According to Good, who has taught journalism at New Paltz since 1985, there is a long and complicated history to the prevalent…
Read moreKahl finishes term as Chair of Public Address Division of NCA
Mary Kahl (Communication & Media) recently concluded a term as chair of the Public Address Division of the National Communication Association – a professional alliance of communication scholars. She currently serves on the NCA’s Legislative Council. Her paper, “Doing the People’s Business in the Wake of Impeachment: The Rhetorical and…
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