JOURNALISM AND THE WRITING PROFESSIONS BECOMES BARUCH COLLEGE’S NEWEST DEPARTMENT
After more than three decades as a specialized program within the Department of English, journalism at Baruch College is attaining departmental status.  The Weissman School of Arts and Sciences launched the new Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions on July 1. Read more.

Greetings from Malta

Journalism major Mariane St. Maurice, the winner of this year's Summer Travel Fellowship, is reporting for The Malta Independent. Here is a link to one of her stories.

Prof. Gabor named to Bloomberg chair

Andrea Gabor, a long-time member of the journalism faculty at Baruch, has been named the Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism. Read the full story.

Times' public editor speaks at D&S publication event

Clark Hoyt, public editor of The New York Times was the keynote speaker at the presentation of the 2008 issue of Dollars & Sense. He fielded questions from students and faculty about the newspaper's coverage of the presidential election, the war in Iraq and other topics.

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•2007 issue of D&S wins Silver Crown

A message from the director
Prof. Geanne Rosenberg discusses the rich choices offered by the journalism curriculum. Read her memo.

Writers help celebrate 10 years of Harman program

Playwrights, authors and journalists were on hand for a gala celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program. Read more and see more photos.

Sci-fi thriller is professor's debut novel

Professor Michel Marriott is out with his first novel, The Skull Cage Key, a science-fiction thriller set in mid-21st-century Harlem. The book meshes his love of Harlem and his knowledge about, and interest in, new technology garnered during years of covering technology for The New York Times. Read more about the book in this this Q&A with the professor.

STUDENT NEWS:

•Journalism student wins scholarship

Carlos Macias, co-editor of the 2008 issue of Dollars & Sense, has been named a winner of the annual scholarship awarded by the New York Financial Writers Association. Read more.

•The Ticker goes digital

Managing editor Michael Wursthorn describes the new endeavor. Read his story.

MORE FACULTY NEWS:
•Legal risk Web site produced by Prof. Rosenberg is launched

Baruch Journalism Director and Associate Professor Geanne Rosenberg has produced and written this multimedia, educational Web site. The site has quizzes and animations, plus video interviews with experts. Read more.

•Prof. Rollyson publishes new book about the craft of writing biographies

Professor Carl Rollyson’s new book, Biography: A User's Guide, was reviewed in the most recent issue of the newsletter, The Biographer’s Craft. The reviewer, Nigel Hamilton, described Rollyson’s book as an “unabashedly personal guidebook to the craft, the art, and the history of the genre.” Rollyson got a double billing as he then reviewed Hamilton’s new book, How To Do Biography: A Primer. Read both at The Biographer’s Craft Web site.

•Rollyson also wrote the lead article, “The State of Biography,” in the Spring 2008 edition of The University Bookman, a quarterly scholarly journal.