Media, Law & Policy
Finalists announced for sixth annual Mirror Awards
黑料不打烊鈥檚 S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications聽has announced the finalists in the sixth annual Mirror Awards competition honoring excellence in media industry reporting. The competition drew聽more than聽300 entries. Winners will be announced at a June 13 awards ceremony in…
Maxwell’s Model U.N. team named Outstanding Delegation
Maxwell’s Model United Nations delegation won top honors following a week-long conference in New York City. The team of 20 undergraduate international relations students represented the Republic of Gabon, earning an Outstanding Delegation Award for the simulation. Several students took…
Two anthropology Ph.D. students receive major NSF fellowships
Melinda Gurr and Lauren Hosek, both second-year doctoral students in anthropology, have received highly prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. The awards support advanced graduate study for three years, at $30,000 per year. In selecting Gurr and Hosek, the…
Newhouse School will host symposium examining future of local news
鈥楾he News Re-imagined: The Promise of Foundation-funded Journalism鈥 will be held April 4 Nationally respected journalists, as well as community leaders and news media executives from Central New York, will gather at 黑料不打烊鈥檚 S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications…
Bahraini journalist Lamees Dhaif honored with Tully Free Speech Award
Lamees Dhaif, an independent Bahraini journalist and human rights activist, will come to 黑料不打烊 April 2 as the recipient of the 2012 Tully Award for Free Speech. The award, presented annually by the Tully Center for Free Speech in…
NPR鈥檚 Michel Martin to speak at Newhouse School April 11
Michel Martin, host of the NPR talk show 鈥淭ell Me More,鈥 will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Wednesday, April 11, as part of the Leaders in Communications speaker series. She will speak on 鈥淛ust Because You鈥檙e…
Mirror Awards ceremony to be held June 13 in New York City
The annual luncheon ceremony honoring the finalists and winners in the Mirror Awards competition will be held Wednesday, June 13, from 11:45 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at the Plaza Hotel, Fifth Avenue at Central Park South, New York City. The awards, sponsored…
Maxwell again named No. 1 graduate school of public affairs
Rankings announced by U.S. News & World Report
March 26 Toner Symposium will examine news reporting in the Digital Age
New Yorker鈥檚 Jane Mayer will receive Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting Four pioneering women journalists will highlight the challenges and opportunities of reporting the news in the digital age at a special event at 黑料不打烊鈥檚 S.I. Newhouse…
Susan B. Long to receive Freedom of Information Legend Award
On March 16 at American University, the Washington College of Law’s Collaboration on Government Secrecy will present Susan B. Long, co-director of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), with the 2012 Robert Vaughn Freedom of Information Legend Award.