Media, Law & Policy
Syracuse University to receive Ted Koppel Collection
Ted Koppel, original anchor of the groundbreaking ABC News program “Nightline,” has agreed to make a donation of videotapes and other items he has prepared or received during his career in broadcast journalism to the Syracuse University Library. Koppel began…
TRAC: Rising immigration case backlog continues
According to an analysis of very timely court data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), despite the hiring of 44 additional immigration judges during the past 12 months, the number of cases awaiting resolution before the Immigration Courts has…
Newhouse School announces winners in fifth annual Mirror Awards
Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications today presented seven awards at the fifth annual Mirror Awards luncheon honoring excellence in media industry reporting. The event, emceed by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, co-hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” was…
Kaplan named CPB ombudsman
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has named Joel Kaplan as its new ombudsman, effective June 1. Kaplan is responsible for reinforcing objectivity, balance, fairness and transparency within public media.
The NewsHouse: Press freedom still a threatened commodity
With turmoil in the Middle East and recent news of another Pakistani reporter killed, a journalist honored at SU shares his personal story of torture and the challenges of freedom of information.
The NewsHouse: Syracuse Grows leads the way to ‘food justice’
Volunteer-driven grassroots organization works to promote access to fresh, locally-grown food across the city’s social strata.
Public Management Research Conference returns to Syracuse 20 years after its beginning at the Maxwell School
The 11th biennial Public Management Research Conference sponsored by the Public Management Research Association will be hosted by the Maxwell School of Syracuse University from June 2-4. The conference, originally established by two Maxwell faculty members in 1991, has been…
The NewsHouse: Spring Fever
Spring in Syracuse. Wet. Cold. Dreary. We can embrace the rainy weather or ignore it. Here at SU, students seem to do a bit of both.
College of Law celebrates Commencement May 13; welcomes Delaware Attorney General Joseph R. Biden III L’94 as speaker
Syracuse University College of Law will celebrate the graduation of 194 juris doctor degree candidates on Friday, May 13, at 1 p.m. in the Carrier Dome. A live webcast of the event is available. Delaware Attorney General Joseph R. “Beau”…
SU College of Law student wins national writing award
Jessica Caterina, a third-year Syracuse University College of Law student, was selected to receive the 2011 Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing. Her work—“Glorious Bastards: The Legal and Civil Birthright of Adoptees to Access Their Medical Records in Search of…