ITHACA, NY — Journalists from around the world will spend a week at Ithaca College learning how to use multimedia and alternative resources for gathering and disseminating news in their respective countries. Scheduled for July 20–24, the Multimedia Workshop for International Journalists was developed by the Department of Journalism in the Roy H. Park School of...

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...

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:

• "Breaking Boundaries" by Dylan Mizner '10, Brent Ross '09, and Neth Wiedeman '09

• "Camp Cedar Grove" by Colleen Goodhue '09, Katie Gorham '10, and Nicholas Lareau '10 

• "All Natural Baby" by Laura Caccavo '10, Mike Hendel '09, and Ben Maizell '09

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.

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...