11/18/2008
ITHACA, NY — Ithaca College’s 92 WICB has been named the top college radio station in the country in a contest sponsored by mtvU, the nation’s largest, most comprehensive television network just for college students. As part of its fifth annual Woodie Awards, mtvU for the first time this year honored a...
5/11/2009
ITHACA, NY — Ithaca College has announced the appointment of Diane Gayeski as interim dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications. She will serve for the 2009–10 academic year while a search is conducted for the successor to departing dean Dianne Lynch, who has been named president of Stephens College.
“I look forward to continuing my work in the Park School...
5/4/2009
Nine Park School students had their work featured on WCNY, the PBS affiliate in Syracuse, in April. The station aired a 30-minute special devoted to three documentaries that were filmed as assignments for the fall 2008 Nonfiction Production class, which was taught by Professor John Scott.
The films were:
4/30/2009
The Ithacan has once again been named the best non-daily student newspaper in the Northeast by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). The SPJ -- the largest professional organization of reporters and editors in the country -- presented the paper with the First Place Mark of Excellence Award at its Region 1 conference on April 25 in Philadelphia.
In addition, senior Jennifer Nevins's story, "That's How They Roll," about a local roller derby team, won the First Place Mark of Excellence Award in the feature writing category. Senior Erica R. Hendry's "Jazz Man," a profile of recently retired music professor Steve Brown, took second place in the feature writing category. The stories appeared in the October 23, 2008, and April 24, 2008, issues of the Ithacan, respectively.
4/30/2009
ITHACA, NY — Mark Mahoney, editorial page editor of the Glen Falls (New York) “Post-Star” and 1985 graduate of Ithaca College, won a 2009 Pulitzer Prize in the editorial writing category. The “Post-Star,” with a daily circulation of 34,000, was by far the smallest paper among this year’s winners of journalism’s top honor, which recognizes the best...
