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SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY S.I. NEWHOUSE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS SPRING 2007 VOL. 19 NO. 2 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY S.I. NEWHOUSE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS SPRING 2007 VOL. 19 NO. 2 IN THIS ISSUE: Dean’s Column 1 Mirror Awards 2 Dean Rubin Retirement 4 Turner Diversity Fellowhips 6 Dean 12 David M. Rubin PSA Project 7 Executive Editor Wendy S. Loughlin G’95 South Side Newspaper 8 Assistant Editor Newspaper Design Competition 10 Carol L. Boll 11 Contributors New Academic Programs Courtney Allen G’07 Jaime Winne Alvarez ’02 First Amendment 12 Lorae M. French ’07 4 Kathleen Haley ’92 Student Snapshots 16 Meghan Hynes G’07 Kathryn Lee G’97 David Marc Schoonmaker Book 18 Photography Comstock Book 19 Steve Dorsey Steve Sartori 20 Christine Singh ’09 Award-winning Documentary Graphic Design Alumnus Kenneth Sparks 21 Quinn Design 8 Alumni at Sirius Radio 22 Assistant Dean of External Relations Lynn A. Vanderhoek ’89 SU in L.A. 23 Offi ce of External Class Notes 24 Relations 315-443-5711 Alumna Kelly Brown 25 Web site newhouse.syr.edu 23 Dear Friends of the School: In April I announced will open in the fall. Our successful “Newhouse in my intention to step down as dean of the New York” breakfast series will continue. We will Newhouse School at the end of the 2007-08 dedicate Newhouse III and welcome Chief Justice academic year. (The lengthy academic search John Roberts to campus in September. We will process requires a lot of advance planning.) I will celebrate a full “Year of the First Amendment” with take 2008-09 as a sabbatical year (my fi rst real a series of speakers, symposia, and other events leave to re-charge in 36 years in higher ed) and to bring further attention to our building, wrapped then return to the faculty in the fall of 2009. I as it is in the actual words of the First Amendment. will be turning over to the next dean a school in One of the most rewarding parts of the job, excellent shape. We should attract many strong for me, has been the relationships I have made candidates for this position. Who wouldn’t want with so many people. Building a great school is a to lead a Newhouse School with a new building, team effort. It starts with the bright students who an exciting new curriculum, a great faculty and leave us and make their mark on the industry. This staff, a talented and ambitious student body, and can only happen with a dedicated faculty and staff a loyal and accomplished alumni base—all within working closely with the students to bring out a university on the move? their potential; alumni who help those graduates This has been a long run, and every get settled and who contribute to the school so organization needs new ideas and energy. Next that we can build a Newhouse III; an experienced year will be my 18th as dean, about triple the Advisory Board providing advice, connections normal longevity. I want to make sure that I am to the industry, and fi nancial resources; and the leaving at the right time in the life of the school, many friends of the school who have supported us DEAN’S COLUMN and I think June 30, 2008, is the right time. At by digging deep into their pockets. You should all that point we will have been in the new building take a bow!!! for a year, having gone through the “shakedown No one could have lasted 18 months as dean, cruise.” Most of the elements of a new curriculum let alone 18 years, without such a fabulous group should be in place by then, thanks to the hard of people all pulling together. You made it easy. work of the faculty and staff. Our relatively new I will continue to make a contribution to administrative team will have had another year of Newhouse in the classroom, as a writer, as a experience under its collective belts. We will have donor, and as a person willing to provide had more time to navigate the University’s new leadership across the campus when asked. budget system. The school will be well-positioned I look forward to seeing many of you at events to help with the University’s next capital in the upcoming year. campaign. And undergraduate and graduate For more information admissions will be fl ourishing. about Dean Rubin’s We have worked together to transform the retirement and career school, and we continue to look forward to great with the Newhouse things ahead. The fi rst Mirror Awards Presentation David M. Rubin School, see story p. 6 will be held in June. New academic programs Dean 1 Peter Bart, editor-in-chief of Variety, will receive the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award at the Mirror Awards Luncheon June 14. Meredith Vieira, co-anchor of NBC’s morning news program Today, will MC the event at W New York, 541 Lexington Ave., New York City. 2 Seven jury awards will be presented at a the Internet. Seven categories recognize John D. Miller ’72, chief marketing luncheon in New York City to recognize reporters, editors, and teams of writers offi cer, TV Group, NBC Universal; Eric the outstanding work of people and who hold a mirror to their own industry Mower ’66, G’88, chairman and CEO, organizations that report on the media. for the public’s benefi t. Newhouse Eric Mower and Associates Inc.; Mike Until now, no awards of this nature have established the awards to recognize Perlis ’76, venture partner, SOFTBANK ever been given. winners for news judgment and Capital; Thomas S. Rogers, president The Mirror Awards Luncheon will command of craft in reporting, analysis, and CEO, TiVo Inc.; Jeffrey A. Sine, vice take place June 14 from 11:45 a.m. to and commentary on developments in chairman and global head, Technology, 2:30 p.m. at W New York in New York the media industry. Media & Telecommunications, UBS City. Meredith Vieira, co-anchor of NBC’s The Mirror Awards are open Investment Bank; John Sykes ’77, morning news program Today, will to anyone who conducts reporting, president of network development, serve as mistress of ceremonies. Peter commentary, or criticism of the media MTV Networks; and Michael Terpin Bart, vice president of Variety Inc. and industries—television, newspaper, ’78, president and CEO, Terpin editor-in-chief of Variety newspaper, magazine, radio, advertising, public Communications Group. will be honored with a special lifetime relations, the Internet, and other forms Mirror judges include Floyd Abrams, achievement award. of content—in a format intended for a partner, Cahill Gordon & Reindel; Luncheon committee co-chairs for mass audience. This year’s entries came Louis D. Boccardi, director, The Gannett the event include Rob Light ’78, partner, from a wide range of media outlets and Company; Hodding Carter III, Creative Artists; Judy McGrath, chairman organizations. professor of leadership and public and CEO, MTV Networks; Ron Meyer, Luncheon committee members policy, University of North Carolina president and COO, Universal Studios; include Barry Baker ’73, managing at Chapel Hill; Karen Brown Dunlap, Aaron Sorkin ’83, writer; and Jeff Zucker, director and general partner, Boston president, The Poynter Institute; Esther president and CEO, NBC Universal. Ventures; Edward Bleier ’51 of CKX/ Dyson, author, Release 2.1; Theodore L. NEWHOUSE ESTABLISHES MIRROR AWARDS TO HONOR EXCELLENCE IN MEDIA INDUSTRY REPORTING “These awards are for anyone who Blockbuster/RealNetworks and the Glasser, professor of communication, cares about the media, and about the Newhouse School’s Bleier Center for Stanford University; Charlotte Grimes, public’s perception of the media in our Television and Popular Culture; Kathy Knight Chair in Political Reporting economy and culture,” says Newhouse Bloomgarden, CEO, Ruder Finn; Harold and professor, S.I. Newhouse School Dean David M. Rubin. “The media are Burson, founding chairman, Burson- of Public Communications, Syracuse so central to every aspect of American Marsteller; Bill Doescher, president and University; Alberto Ibargüen, president life, and so ubiquitous, that we thought CEO, The Doescher Group Ltd.; Fred and CEO, John S. and James L. Knight it time to recognize coverage that best M. Dressler ’63, former executive vice Foundation; Alex Jones, director, explains to the American public how the president of programming, Time Warner The Joan Shorenstein Center on media work, and why. We believe these Cable; Alan Frank G’70, president and the Press, Politics & Public Policy, awards are long overdue, given that the CEO, Post-Newsweek Stations Inc.; Eric Harvard University; Steve Kroft ’71, media business, as a beat, has been Frankel ’74, president, Warner Bros. correspondent, 60 Minutes, CBS; the focus of some of the country’s best Domestic Cable Distribution; Martin William T. Slater, dean and professor, journalists. We are pleased to associate Garbus, partner, Davis & Gilbert LLP; College of Communication, Texas the Newhouse School with these new Peter Guber, chairman, Mandalay Christian University Schieffer School of awards, given that the school has such Pictures; Phil Gurin ’81, president, Journalism; and Judy Woodruff, special a strong concentration in its mission on The Gurin Company; Andrew T. Heller, correspondent, NewsHour, PBS. professional media work for its president of domestic distribution, For more information about the graduates.” Turner Broadcasting System; Deborah Mirror Awards or to reserve a table at the The Mirror Awards focus on all Henretta G’85, president, ASEAN, June 14 luncheon, see mirrorawards.syr.edu media—traditional and new—including Australasia and India, The Procter & or contact Catherine Gay Communications newspapers, magazines, radio, Gamble Co.; Philip I. Kent, chairman and at 212-501-7231 or [email protected].