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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Jeff Cohen, the founder of one of America’s first media criticism groups and the author of a recent book on his experiences inside cable television news, will speak at the State University of New York at New Paltz at 5 p.m. on Nov. 14 in Lecture Center 108. The event…

EVENTS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Eric Gullickson October 4, 2007 (845) 257-3245 Communication and Media to offer video documentaries during Alumni Weekend NEW PALTZ – The Communication and Media Department at the State University of New York at New Paltz will showcase a series of productions and presentations in conjunction with…

Twenty international students – from Sweden, Mexico, Germany and Australia – will soon be departing New Paltz after a two-month stay during which they studied marketing and public relations. They will go next to spend two months working as interns in New York City at some of the city’s largest…

Second-year professor Sandrine Dincki has helped shift the curriculum for Public Relations in the Communication and Media department at SUNY New Paltz and is encouraging her students to explore non-profit publicity. In the fall semester of 2006, in her first semester at the college, Dr. Dincki had her students compete in…

NEW PALTZ — The Department of Communication and Media at the State University of New York at New Paltz will host a panel of six of the region’s top newspaper professionals as a part of the sixth annual Communication and Media Day beginning at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 19,…

NEW PALTZ — Award-winning journalist Trudy Lieberman, who is considered one of the best consumer reporters in America, will kick off the Sojourner Truth Library’s celebration of National Library Week with a talk on Monday, April 16, on the topic “Can health care ever be reformed?” The event will be at…

NEW PALTZ — Howard Good, a veteran journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, has recently published his 12th book, titled “Mis-Education in Schools: Beyond the Slogans and Double-Talk.” Using both scholarly research and personal anecdotes, Good delves into what he sees as the key…

NEW PALTZ — The Journalism Program at the State University of New York at New Paltz will welcome Amy Goodman, host of the nationally syndicated television and radio news talk show “Democracy Now,” at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 30, in Lecture Center 100. The event is free and open…

NEW PALTZ — Award-winning reporter Trudy Lieberman, who is considered one of the best consumer reporters in America, has been named the sixth James H. Ottaway Sr. Professor of Journalism, the State University of New York at New Paltz announced today. Lieberman has been an investigative reporter for 35 years and…

From the Kingston Daily Freeman Spotlight on the airwaves By BONNIE LANGSTON, Freeman staff Woodstock author Lisa A. Phillips is grateful for an interview that began in a bathroom with jazz great Marian McPartland. The interchange helped jump-start the publication of her book, "Public Radio: Behind the Voices." It is published by…

Danielle Ziemba, Weekend and Special Sections editor of The Daily Star, has won a prestigious Dow Jones Special Achievement Award, one of only five or six given out annually to Ottaway Newspapers and Dow Jones employees, presenters announced Thursday. Ziemba is a 1998 graduate of the Journalism Program at SUNY…

A team of Radio-TV students from the State University of New York at New Paltz were semifinalists in the U.S. Postal Service’s “P.R. Professional Experience” contest. The contest is being sponsored by the Postal Service to find innovative ways to promote its online products to 18-30 year olds,…

NEW PALTZ — Award-winning journalist Kevin Sites, recipient of the 2006 Daniel Pearl Award for courage and integrity in journalism and creator of Yahoo! News’ "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone," will be the keynote speaker for the fifth annual Media Day at the State University of New York at…

NEW PALTZ — The State University of New York at New Paltz will award an honorary doctorate of humane letters to Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The New York Times, at the May Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony at 10 a.m. on Sunday, May 21, on the Old Main Quadrangle. Sulzberger…

NEW PALTZ — The Legislative Gazette, the weekly newspaper of New York dedicated to reporting stories on the state government, has appointed a graduate of the State University of New York at New Paltz’s Journalism program as editor of the publication. James Gormley, or “Jamie” as he is called…

The SUNY New Paltz Foundation and a committee of student leaders launches the 2005-2006 student giving campaign this week, titled “Extreme New Paltz.” This campaign will raise money for a peer scholarship to be awarded in May 2006. “Extreme New Paltz” will include a series of fundraising activities by…

Reprinted from the Daily Freeman of Kingston By Bonnie Langston John Darnton served The New York Times for nearly four decades, winning a Pulitzer Prize along the way, and now he is sharing his expertise and experience with students at SUNY New Paltz as the school’s fifth James…

By Saadia Rafiq, Contributing Writer The bright red baseball championship pennant on Rebecca Leung’s office wall of Coykendall Science Building 46 shows that she is Los Angeles Angels fan. Leung, assistant professor of Journalism is a new addition to the Communication and Media Department at SUNY New Paltz. As…

NEW PALTZ — John Darnton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author, will discuss how writers are increasingly blurring the lines between fact and fiction when he gives a talk at the State University of New York at New Paltz at 5 p.m. on Nov. 9 in McKenna Theatre….

By Scott Gargan, Staff Writer Journalism professor and author Robert Miraldi spoke about the increased threat to journalists using anonymous sources by Federal prosecutors on Monday in his lecture ”Reporters, Sources and Jail.” ”I’m concerned about the threat to journalists ability to use anonymous sources and not end…

Reprinted from the Kingston Freeman By Bonnie Langston Anyone who thinks the educational system needs to be revamped may want to take a jaunt down the metaphorical yellow brick road of “The Theory of Oz: Rediscovering the Aims of Education.” The book is written by Howard Good, professor…

Journalism professor Robert Miraldi will describe why reporters are increasingly under pressure from the government to reveal their confidential sources of information and why some are actually being sent to jail when he gives a talk sponsored by the Honors Program on Sept. 19 at 5 p.m. in College Hall. His…

NEW PALTZ — Riverdale Press reporter Marie Villani, a 2001 State University of New York at New Paltz journalism graduate, has been named Writer of the Year by The New York Press Association at its annual conference of community newspapers held recently in Albany. In giving her the association’s…

NEW PALTZ — New York Times reporter John Darnton, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for his daring reporting from Poland, has been named the fifth James H. Ottaway Sr. professor of journalism by the State University of New York at New Paltz. Darnton, now a senior…

PRSSA SUNY New Paltz Chapter News Release For Immediate Release Contact: Liz Cavallaro cavall10@newpaltz.edu Ellie Peppard Peppar03@newpaltz.edu WEB JUNKIE TO BRING A LITTLE COLLEGE HUMOR TO CAMPUS: Jakob Lodwick of CollegeHumor.com to speak at SUNY New Paltz event NEW PALTZ — The SUNY New Paltz Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) announced today…