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 MoreNEW 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 MoreRobert 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 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 MoreDesiree Grand (Senior/Journalism), currently in Albany completing her Journalism Program internship with the Legislative Gazette, was a finalist in the Los Angeles Times’ prestigious METPRO Program for Minority Journalists – an extremely competitive project and “a great step upward” even for experienced journalists, according to Jessica Siegel (Communication & Media)….
Read MoreMary 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…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The SUNY New Paltz campus newspaper, The Oracle, won third place honors for overall excellence in a national contest of the Society for Collegiate Journalists – the nation’s oldest honor society for students of mass communication, according to Shelly Wright, a lecturer in the university’s Journalism Program….
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — A panel discussion on political activism and journalism will take place March 29 in SUNY New Paltz’s Parker Theatre from 7:30 until 9:30 p.m. Award-winning journalist and author Juan Gonzalez of the New York Daily News will highlight a panel which includes journalist and professor Karl Grossman,…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz journalism student Tracy Vanstaalduinen has been awarded a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund 12-week summer internship in Plattsburgh, N.Y. She will perform writing, editing and page design for the daily newspaper Plattsburgh Press-Republican, which has a circulation of 23,000 covering the northeastern Clinton, Essex and…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Nationally syndicated newspaper columnist and author Colman McCarthy, who is also well known as an educator and pacifist, will speak on the topic, “How to be an Effective Peacemaker,” at SUNY New Paltz on December 1 at 7 p.m. in LC 102. McCarthy is a Washington…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Alex Storozynski, a SUNY New Paltz graduate who won the Pulitzer Prize in journalism last April, will visit the New Paltz campus and speak with students on Monday, October 25, at 3:30 p.m. in the Faculty Tower Room 1000. Storozynski, who graduated in 1983, won journalism’s…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Rob Miraldi, who teaches journalism in the Communication and Media Department at SUNY New Paltz, has received the second place award from the Associated Press for his monthly newspaper column on freedom of speech and the First Amendment. His work was entered in the column writing category….
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Alex Storozynski, a 1983 graduate of the State University of New York at New Paltz, was among the winners of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing. Storozynski is a member of the editorial board at the New York Daily News that earned the prestigious award for…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — June Beallor, a 1983 graduate of the State University of New York at New Paltz, was among those on stage when the Academy Award for the Best Feature Length Documentary, “The Last Days,” was handed out Sunday evening. She joined director and editor James Moll, who immediately…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Howard Good, a professor of journalism in the department of communication and media at the State University of New York at New Paltz will discuss his most recent book, Girl Reporter: Gender, Journalism and the Movies at a November 3 colloquium sponsored by the women’s studies program….
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — A new course of study in Public Relations will begin this fall at the State University of New York at New Paltz, according to William W. Vasse vice president for academic affairs. Students will be able to take introductory and advanced courses in public relations, as…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — -SUNY New Paltz Professor Howard Good’s fifth book, Girl Reporter: Gender, Journalism, and the Movies, has been published by Scarecrow Press. Using Torchy Blane, the hero of nine Warner Brothers films from the 1930s, as the centerpiece, this cultural study examines Hollywood’s infatuation with the female reporter….
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Robert Miraldi, chair of the communication and media department at the State University of New York at New Paltz, has received a first prize award for his newspaper column from the New York State Newspaper Publishers Association. The award was handed out Monday at an annual…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Applications are now being accepted for the third annual Summer Institute of Journalism to be held at the State University of New York at New Paltz July 8 through 17. The Summer Institute is a scholarship program designed for students from groups now underrepresented in the…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Howard Good, a faculty member at the State University of New York at New Paltz, has written his fourth book, Diamonds in the Dark: America, Baseball, and the Movies. Published by Scarecrow Press, the book examines Hollywood’s love affair with baseball, providing information on hundreds of…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Janice W. Anderson, a faculty member at the State University of New York at New Paltz, has written a book that provides practical suggestions for dealing with conflict in the workplace. In Communication Skills for Surviving Conflicts at Work, Anderson, with co-authors Myrna Foster-Kuehn of Clarion…
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