Fancy yourself the next Christiane Amanpour?

Last summer, the Park School hosted a new media workshop for international journalists.

Ten top journalists from around the world were invited to participate and focus on new approaches to alternative media in their various countries.

Blogging, Twitter, photo and video editing, online campaigns, YouTube, and Google Earth...

Co-host of Today weekend edition and NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt visited Ithaca College last April as the Jessica Savitch Distinguished Journalism Lecturer.

Holt has reported on some of the world’s most important stories, including Operation Iraqi Freedom, Hurricane Katrina, and the war between Israel and Lebanon.

His lecture touched on many...

If you walk into the Park School of Communications and ask students to respond to the words “documentary workshop,” I can guarantee some amusing responses -- whimpers, alarm (“Are you taking that class? Why are you taking that class?!”), and sighs of relief if the student has survived this difficult course.

Many of the students attribute that difficulty to one...

Last summer I went to the Beijing Olympic Games. Okay, so I wasn’t competing in any events, but I did experience the games firsthand -- as an intern for the Olympic News Service (ONS). As a journalism minor, I was excited by the opportunity. I looked forward to learning more about the journalistic process and was eager to apply what I’d learned in class to this experience. I had...

Three accomplished writers are visiting Ithaca College this fall, continuing the traditions of two guest lecturer programs run by the Park School of Communications and the School of Humanities and Sciences.

This year’s Park Distinguished Visitor is award-winning journalist and author Tom Wolfe. Wolfe has written for the New York Herald-Tribune and New York...