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Wrapping Up This Fall’s Work in the 2023 Woodstock Film Festival

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Each year the DMJ department hosts the Woodstock Film Festival class, a class that brings students to the festival to create video content for the festival’s YouTube channel.  This year professor Megan Sperry led the intrepid team to define and secure interviews, film Q&As, filmmaker parties, and interview leading industry professionals attending the festival.  The videos are already all uploaded, and you can view them here: Woodstock Film Festival – YouTube
In addition, Professor Sperry runs the Woodstock Film Festival Summer Youth Filmmaking Lab. As director, she oversees the three teachers and teaching assistants, conducts community outreach to find young people who are interested in joining the lab, and takes on a host of invisible work to ensure the lab runs smoothly.  This year, the lab hosted 14 young filmmakers who worked collaboratively in teams of three, to create three impactful films that focused on their local community. The films screened as part of the WFF Youth Film Shorts program.
Please join us in congratulating Professor Sperry, and her students, for all their accomplishments!

Join Steve Densmore and Briana Maloney for a Grant Writing Workshop Oct. 12, 3pm

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Join Steve Densmore and Briana Maloney from Choice Words for an informative session on writing grants. The workshop is open to all students can faculty, with priority for Communication Studies majors.

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The workshop will be on Thursday, October 12 from 3-4pm in Old Main B125. To register for this event, scan the QR code on the attached poster above or click the following link: Grant Writing Workshop Registration (google.com).

If you have any special accessibility needs, please
contact Amanda Valentin at valentia@newpaltz.edu or
845-257-3450 as soon as possible prior to the event
to make appropriate accommodations.

Don’t Miss This Fall’s FILM 48 General Interest Meeting Oct. 5 at 5!

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The BEA’s FILM 48 is an international film competition in which participants write, shoot, and produce a short film in just 48 hours. This fall the competition will be taking place from October 20th-22nd, organized by New Paltz’s Media Society Club.

Participating in FILM 48 is encouraged to ALL New Paltz students, regardless of major, as it requires writers, directors, audio technicians, actors, and creatives alike. If you are interested in participating or just want to learn more about FILM 48 and Media Society, please come to our general interest meeting on Thursday, October 5th at 5pm in SUB430.

We hope to see you there!

Join Us Oct. 3 for Ottaway Visiting Professor of Journalism Amanda Sperber Q&A

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Please join us on Tuesday, October 3 at 7 p.m. at the Honors Center in College Hall for the introduction of this year’s James H. Ottaway Sr. Visiting Professor of Journalism, Amanda Sperber.

SUNY New Paltz President Dr. Darrell P. Wheeler will host a Q&A with Sperber about her life and career and take questions from the audience.

Sperber is an independent journalist and foreign correspondent whose work has appeared in Al Jazeera, the Atlantic, the Economist, Foreign Policy, the Guardian, the Intercept, the Nation, NBC, Marie Claire, Reuters, VICE World News, and Vogue, among other publications.

She is a former Logan nonfiction fellow, a fellow with Type Investigations, and an investigative fellow with Code for Africa, the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism initiative. Sperber won the Thomson-Reuters Kurt Schork Memorial Award in the Freelancer Category for her reportage in Somalia. She has received grants from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, the Leonard C. Goodman Institute for Investigative Reporting, and the United Nations Foundation, among others.

At New Paltz this semester, she is teaching a class in international reporting. The event is free and all are welcome!

If you have accessibility questions or require accommodations to fully participate in this event, please contact the event organizer Rachel Somerstein, Director, James H. Ottaway Sr. Visiting Professorship in Journalism at somerstr@newpaltz.edu. Requests should be made as soon as possible but at least 48 hours prior to the event.

Interested in Study Abroad? Read This To Apply SAB Courses to DMJ Majors and Minors

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A study abroad experience can be enriching and valuable — and even more so if you can make progress in your major while you’re there. If you are interested in or planning to study abroad, the first step is to meet with the SAB office. Be sure to meet with your DMJ major/minor advisor as far in advance as possible so you can plan out your progress to graduation.
Not every SAB course can be used for credit in your major.  If you think an SAB course might be suitable to substitute for a course in your major, it will need to be approved in advance by the Department.
The SAB equivalency course database is only a listing of specific courses that former students had successfully applied to their General Education and major plans. It is not all-inclusive. The DMJ Department has also kept track of our own internal approvals, but it’s also not all-inclusive. For evaluations of courses you’d like to apply to DMJ courses, students are advised to bring the syllabi to their major advisor or Nancy Heiz, as well as the DMJ Chair Gregory Bray, who has final approval of workflows, to ensure proper student learning outcomes and alignment with our courses.
Contact:
Nancy Heiz, Departmental Academic Advisor, heizn@newpaltz.edu
Gregory Bray, Department Chair, brayg@newpaltz.edu

Meet the Fall 2023 Ottaway Visiting Journalism Professor Amanda Sperber

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We are pleased to introduce the Fall 2023 James H. Ottaway Sr. Visiting Professor in Journalism, Amanda Sperber!
Amanda Sperber is a multi-award-winning international correspondent and Investigative Fellow with Code for Africa whose work considers colonialism and capitalism. Her high impact reporting has prompted changes to military policy, open Congressional letters signed by leading House members, reports by organizations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Airwars and shifted narratives on state-building and U.S. foreign policy. Since she started reporting on U.S. airstrikes in Somalia, the military admitted its first civilian casualties since it began carrying out strikes in 2007 and instituted a civilian casualty reporting protocol.

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Attend the Alumni Panel and Guest Speakers on Media Day, May 11, 2023

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The Department of Digital Media and Journalism, CAS, SUNY New Paltz Alumni Association, and The Media Society Present… Media Day 2023! Media Day will take place Thursday, May 11, beginning with the Alumni Panel at 10am and closing at 6pm with Keynote Speakers at the College Terrace.

The 10am Alumni Panel will include Clark Slater, Breanne Casucci, Katelyn Cordero, Alanna Gill, and Lakendra Smith. This panel opens opportunities to network with the graduates and learn about their career ladders and paths. Breakfast will also be served! The 6pm keynote will include speakers Joy + Noelle, who will share about their career in animation. The keynote will also honor DMJ Professor Emirati Lynn Spangler with refreshments and appetizers. 

2023 Media Day poster

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Internships are Still Available at Hudson Valley Casting!

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Hudson Valley Casting is a full service casting company located in New Paltz, NY who has had interns from SUNY New Paltz for the past 5 years! They seek digital media management, production, journalism, or communication studies students that are interested in talent scouting and casting business.

For more information, visit https://www.hudsonvalleycasting.com/

 To apply, send a resume and letter of interest to Heidi Ecklund at hudsonvalleyfilmcasting@gmail.com.