It’s the end of my first week of classes at Ithaca College, and I’m sitting in the Park Hall Auditorium as an unsure but hopeful freshman intrigued by the romance of newspaper journalism. And to be honest, I didn’t have an answer as to why. Like so many first-year journalism majors, in high school I had been told my writing was “wonderful.” I had...

It seems like every journalist’s dream is to one day make it all the way to the New York Times. Well, for 10 days last January, I got to live the dream -- sort of.

I spent my winter break about 3,000 miles away from home in Tucson, Arizona, at the New York Times Student Journalism Institute. I was one of just 20 students...

Rob Bluey ’01 Makes the News in New Media

“What really sold me about Ithaca was the fact that I could get involved from day one at the Ithacan,” says blogger Rob Bluey ’01. Bluey, who graduated with a degree in journalism, has become a one-man riptide under the wave of the “new media” that is drastically...