Ithaca College Television's NewsWatch 16 was awarded first place in the college television competition by the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association. News director Bryan Mercer and producer Becky Goodling were in attendance.

Busking the Big Apple, a documentary on street performers in New York City, won the grand prize at the Association of Higher Education Campus Television Administrators (AHECTA) 2009 National Student Production contest. The documentary was produced by Chris Cucci, Chris Burt, and Sarah Justine Woodhouse.

Three other ICTV programs were recognized with Honorable Mentions by AHECTA, including: Game Over, produced by Dan Hirsch and Natalie Shoemaker; Gourmet for a Day, produced by Allison Gainza and Stu Kenney; and History of ICTV, produced by Bryan Mercer.

ITHACA, NY — The producers and directors of “Trouble the Water,” the Oscar-nominated documentary about Hurricane Katrina, will screen their film and talk about their work in two appearances at Ithaca College. The presentations by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal — who were also producers on Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” and “Bowling for...

Patricia Zimmermann, codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) and professor of Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts, has just been named the Shaw Foundation Professor, an endowed chair, at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communications at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, the premier school of communications in Asia.

The Shaw Foundation is one...

Ithaca College is beginning the search for the next dean of the Park School of Communications. The expectation is that the new dean will begin work in summer 2010.

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Registration is now open for the 2009 Rod Serling Conference.  “Celebrating 50 Years of The Twilight Zone” is an interdisciplinary academic conference dedicated to the works of Rod Serling. The conference is set for Friday, October 2, and Saturday, October 3, 2009, at the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College.

For more information on the...