Media, Law & Policy
Orange Law Access email newsletter named PR Daily Award finalist
Syracuse University College of Law was named a finalist for PR Daily’s first-ever Digital PR & Social Media Awards in the Best E-mail Newsletter category. Orange Law Access introduces qualified prospective law students to the College of Law community, provides…
Cold Case Justice Initiative hands over 196 new names of potential victims in civil rights era killings to Department of Justice
The Directors of the Cold Case Justice Initiative (CCJI) at SU recently hand-delivered to Justice Department officials a list of 196 additional names of suspicious civil rights era killings. The FBI has been working from a previous list of 122…
An election season in London for Americans abroad
SU Abroad student Rebekah MacKay (www.rebekahmackay.com) captured the images of this election season through the lens of Americans voting abroad in London. A graduate student in photography in the Newhouse School of Public Communications, MacKay covered the election as part of an assignment for photojournalism professor Judah Passow.
International students find much to interest them in U.S. presidential election
The debates, the media coverage, seemingly endless campaigning. Americans have endured months of buildup to the U.S. presidential election. Two students—Chi Chen, a junior studying psychology, and Yutian Yang, a third-year Ph.D. student in chemical engineering—have watched the U.S. process,…
Students’ mock campaign parallels real one
“#ElectionClass, Social Media and the 2012 Election” is a new course in the School of Information Studies that examines the impact of social media on presidential campaigns as the electoral process unfolds in real time.
Newhouse School to celebrate ‘PR Day’ Nov. 9 with alumni guest speakers
Event will include a special announcement from W20 Group’s Jim Weiss ’87 Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will celebrate “PR Day” during a special, day-long event on Friday, Nov. 9, in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse…
Newhouse student-reporters experience democracy in action on Election Day
To tell voters’ stories on Election Day, several hundred journalism students—from Syracuse, N.Y., to Miami, Fla., to Phoenix, Ariz.—will share their coverage through a special project coordinated by three professors at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Called…
A house divided: Race for the 24th Congressional District seat
Two years ago, Republican challenger Ann Marie Buerkle unseated Democrat Rep. Dan Maffei in an excruciatingly tight contest for New York’s 25th congressional seat that was ultimately decided three weeks later and by a margin of less than three-tenths of 1 percent. This year’s rematch has given every indication of being just as close.
A vote for citizenship
One vote doesn’t decide the fate of a nation. Its greater meaning is in the vital act of citizenship, says Robert McClure, Chapple Family Professor of Citizenship and Democracy Emeritus at the Maxwell School.
Audio: Robert Thompson on pop culture and the presidency
Syracuse University professor Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture, offers his thoughts on how pop culture and the presidency go hand in hand.