News conference with Ann Cooper and Jim Ottaway Jr.
10/16/2002
NEW PALTZ -- The State University of New York will host a news conference at noon on Thursday, Oct. 17, in the reading lounge of the Coykendall Science Building (room 54) to introduce Ann Cooper as the third James H. Ottaway Sr. Endowed Professor in Journalism.
Participants will include:
Ann Cooper, award-winning reporter who currently directs the Committee to Protect Journalists, the foremost advocacy group in the world that seeks to protect endangered journalists. Cooper, who has worked for more than 25 years as a journalist, has also taught journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Cooper has reported for The Louisville Courier-Journal, the Capitol Hill News Service, The Congressional Quarterly, and The Baltimore Sun.
Jim Ottaway Jr., chief executive officer of Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. Ottaway made the donation that supports the endowed professorship.
Steven Poskanzer, interim president of SUNY New Paltz.
Gerald Benjamin, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Contact Shelly Wright in the Office of Public Affairs at (845) 257-3245 for more information
Located in the heart of a dynamic college town, 90 minutes from metropolitan New York City, the State University of New York at New Paltz is a highly selective college of about 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
One of the most well-regarded public colleges in the nation, New Paltz delivers an extraordinary number of majors in Business, Liberal Arts, Sciences, Engineering, Fine and Performing Arts and Education.
New Paltz embraces its culture as a community where talented and independent minded people from around the world create close personal links with real scholars and artists who love to teach.
