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Family Continues Support of D&S

Longtime supporters of Dollars & Sense, the Wiesel family continues to make an annual gift in loving memory of Israel Wiesel ’40 and Theresa Wiesel. We hope to use the funds to enable D&S students to range farther afield in reporting their stories, from Long Island and New Jersey to Albany and Washington.

Prof. Bernstein publishes article about
art scene in Cuba

Prof. Roslyn Bernstein traveled to Cuba in November on a trip organized by the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C. to visit the studios of several Cuban artists. She wrote about the experience for artcritical, an online magazine about arts and ideas.

STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA AND JOB PROSPECTS AT BUSINESS JOURNALISM MEETING

The growing important of social media as both a reporting tool and a publishing platform, and a recovering job market in business journalism, were among the major points made to an audience that included several Baruch journalism students and several alums at the fall meeting of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers on Oct. 13-14.

 

Baruch HOSTS BIENNiAL CONFERENCE OF THE REBECCA WEST INTERNATIONAL Society

Scholars and students participated in the International Rebecca West Society biennial conference at Baruch College on Sept. 16-17, 2011.

NEW CHAIR OF JOURNALISM DEPARTMENT

Prof. Joshua Mills became the chair of the Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions on July 1. He will continue as the principal adviser for students and as one of the faculty advisers to Dollars & Sense. Professor Mills has taught a wide range of courses, including perspectives on the news (2500), journalistic writing (3050), copy editing (3100), business and financial journalism (3200), advanced reporting (3500), multimedia reporting (3510) and investigative reporting (4750). “I’m also happy to hear from students with questions, ideas or complaints,” Professor Mills says. During the summer, he can best be reached by email (Joshua.mills@baruch.cuny.edu). During the academic year, he has regularly scheduled office hours. Prof. Geanne Rosenberg, who stepped down as chair on June 30, will focus on her future-of-journalism-projects, collaborating with colleagues inside and outside Baruch under grants from the Carnegie, Harnisch and McCormick Foundations.

Students Study Entrepreneurship

The department offered a new course this summer, Digital Entrepreneurism (part of the JRN 3900 Special Topics series). Taught by Prof. Vera Haller, students learned about new opportunities in start-up news websites. The students followed each step of the process, from coming up with an idea to developing editorial and business plans to understanding new technologies. The students heard from several journalistic entrepreneurs and they developed plans for their own news sites.

Department hosts High School Students

The department is working with both high school students and teachers this summer. Twenty local students will earn college credit for JRN 3050 as part of the College Now program, in a course taught by Katina Paron. Then the department will host broadcast training for 20 local teachers, through the High School Broadcast Journalism Project of the Radio Television Digital News Foundation, offering instruction in camera work, script writing and digital editing. The teacher is Dave Davis, founder of the Student Television Network.

Baruch grad now fashion editor

Rachel Vincent, who recently graduated with a major in journalism and creative writing, is fashion editor at Cliché Magazine, an online publication. "We don't have conventional offices or meetings, because all of our contributors are spread out across the country,” she says. “We operate completely through Gmail and Wordpress, and so far we've produced several issues and hundreds of blog posts with only virtual meetings," she says.

Geanne Rosenberg elected to student press law center board of directors

Professor Geanne Rosenberg was one of three new members elected to the Student Press Law Center's Board of Directors on May 13. "We’re delighted to have these exceptional new board members step forward to join our efforts in ensuring that student journalists have the ability to publish without obstruction," said board chair Mark W.C. Stodder. Read the full press release.

New York Times Writer Henriques DiscussES New Book on Bernie Madoff

Diana Henriques of The New York Times, who has covered the Madoff scandal from the beginning, discussed her new book, "The Wizard of Lies," at Baruch on May 10. See photos from the event, which was sponsored by Dollars & Sense, the award-winning online magazine of the Journalism Department.

Journalism Department Announces Scholarship and PriZe Recipients

Four scholarships and six prizes have been awarded to outstanding undergraduate students by the Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions. Read the full list of winners.

Journalism grad remembers time at D&S

Sherry Mazzocchi, a Baruch business journalism major, was honored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism with the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for Social Justice Reporting – and in her acceptance remarks recalled her terrific experience with Dollars & Sense. Watch a video of her remarks.

2ND ANNUAL CITYWIDE HIGH SCHOOL JOURNALISM COMPETITION Launched

The Newsies! competition is open to all New York City public high schools. Teachers/advisers are responsible for nominating and submitting entries on behalf of their students.

Student Attends NATIONAL GATHERING OF BUSINESS JOURNALISTS AND EDITORS

The competition is open to all New York City public high schools. Teachers/advisers are responsible for nominating and submitting entries on behalf of their students.Business journalism major Jason Riggs offers his reflections on attending the annual meeting of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in Dallas.

 

Journalism Department to Offer
News Literacy Workshops to Freshmen

The Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions will be offering news literacy enrichment workshops to Baruch College freshmen beginning in Fall 2011.  This new program is possible because of a grant from the David and Katherine Moore Family Foundation and collaboration between the department and the freshman seminar program.

D&S Wins SILVER CROWN AWARD

Dollars & Sense, the online magazine of the Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions, has won the latest in a string of major prizes: the Silver Crown in the online magazine category from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.

Professor joins WSJ Book Reviewers

Prof. Carl Rollyson is now reviewing new biographies for The Wall Street Journal's weekend edition. His specialty is what one editor calls bio-bibliographical pieces – reviews that discuss a new biography in terms of others like it. Rollyson likes to get into the guts of a book, examining how well the biographer has mined her or his sources, conducted interviews and paid attention to what other biographers have said. Rollyson's past reviews are available in several books, including Reading Biography, Essays in Biography and American Biography. His scholarly studies of the genre include "A Higher From of
Cannibalism: Adventures in the Art and Politics of Biography," and "Biography: a User's Guide." Read his most recent review of a new biography of J.D. Salinger.

'Studio H' Featured on Baruch Video

A video tour of Baruch College for incoming freshmen includes a segment about the Journalism Department's new multimedia lab, Studio H. The segment includes an
interview with Prof. Vera Haller and video of her Spring '10 Multimedia Reporting students. Watch the video.

FACULTY NEWS:

Prof. Geanne Rosenberg (left) wrote a piece for Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab about the lack of legal protection for student journalists. Read the full story.

 

 

Prof. Roz Bernstein is out with a short story collection, Boardwalk Stories. Read more about the book. The book was mentioned in a recent New York Times article about Prof. Bernstein's hometown of Long Beach, Long Island.

 

 

JOURNALISM BECOMES NEWEST DEPARTMENT

After more than three decades as a specialized program within the Department of English, journalism at Baruch College has become a department.  The Weissman School of Arts and Sciences launched the new Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions on July 1, 2008.

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