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O'Connor Packs house for Harman event

Hundreds gathered in the Newman Conference center at Baruch College to welcome author Joseph O'Connor and to hear selected readings on Thursday, October 20. O'Connor was the 23rd author to come to campus as a Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence. Read article by Harman student Dave Feldman.

D&S launches multimedia edition

After 31 years in print form, Baruch's national-award-winning magazine of business and social coverage has gone online. The site, which launched with a series of Halloween articles, will capitalize on multimedia technology and publish students' work more frequently. Visit Dollars & Sense.

Department Unveils "Studio H"

The Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions has launched "Studio H," a state-of-the-art journalism laboratory designed to bring cutting-edge technological capabilities into the classroom and train the next generation of students in the most advanced techniques of news gathering and dissemination. The facility was made possible by a $1 million gift from The Harnisch Family Philanthropies.

Journalism Major Wins Award

Silissa Kenney, editor-in-chief of the 2009 issue of Dollars & Sense, won a best-story writing award at a student journalism conference held in New York. Kenney's piece was part of the final assignment for the Getting Started in Business News conference, which was co-sponsored by Baruch, the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

ONLINE EXPERT JOINS DEPARTMENT

The Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions is pleased to welcome Craig Stone, the former Web editor at J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at American University. Stone, a founding member of the DC Sports Box Web site, brings to the department expertise in new technology, social media and sportswriting (He will teach a sportswriting elective in the spring.)

DEPARTMENT TEAMS UP WITH GAZETTE

New York City voters are more informed thanks to the students who enrolled in this summer's Topics in Journalism: Political Reporting (ENG/JRN 3900). The students reported on City Council races for the Gotham Gazette, an online public policy magazine. From Hollis, Queens, to Weeksville, Brooklyn, students interviewed nearly 50 candidates for City Council, including Speaker Christine Quinn. Each student covered a district, attending political debates, talking to nonprofit leaders and polling residents. Read their stories.

FACULTY NEWS:

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

Prof. Andrea Gabor , the Bloomberg chair, was interviewed by Consumer Reports about her investigation into the appliance industry. Read the full feature.

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.

Prof. Josh Mills chaired a search over the summer for a new executive director of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW), the nation’s largest group of business journalists, which is based at Arizona State University. Warren Watson, a longtime educator and
journalist, accepted the position.

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.

Find all Baruch's student media outlets such as The Ticker, Dollars & Sense and Encounters Magazine