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The Daily OrangeEditor in chief of New Yorker to dedicate new lab
By Barbara Jackson
Posted: 10/14/08, 3:42 AM EST Section: News
David Remnick, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and editor in chief of The New Yorker, will speak at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications today and dedicate the Bill Glavin magazine lab.
The lecture will take place at 3 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3 and will include a question and answer session.
Remnick, the fifth editor in chief of The New Yorker, which is owned by the Newhouse family, will speak as part of the Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series.
He has been the editor in chief of The New Yorker for 10 years. Previously he was a Moscow correspondent for The Washington Post, and it was in this position that he gathered information for his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Lenin's Tomb."
Before speaking in the Hergenhan Auditorium, Remnick will be a part of the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly renovated Bill Glavin magazine lab in Newhouse 1.
Melissa Chessher, department chair of magazine, newspaper and online journalism, has played a large role in organizing Remnick's appearance at Newhouse.
"He was already going to be in Syracuse, and we wanted to do something special for the lab opening," Chessher said.
The lab is named for Bill Glavin, a magazine professor who has taught at Newhouse for 35 years.
"I can't think of a more fitting and special way to acknowledge what he has done and what he values as a professor," said Chessher, who has worked with Glavin for 11 years.
Though Glavin said he appreciates the lab being named after him, he said the most important thing is how the lab will be used by students.
"I am really honored, but I'm mostly glad that our students will have a place where they can create magazines and hang out," Glavin said. "We've never had a space like this of our own."
Mark Obbie, associate professor of magazine journalism, said the lab, recently renovated with new carpet, paint and technology, is a sign of the respect magazine journalism alumni have for Glavin.
"Usually rooms are named for big donors or dead people, and this time it's a pure honor," Obbie said. "And I think that's great."
Magazine journalism students and professors who have been using the lab since the beginning of the year have already benefited.
Obbie has been teaching a section of his magazine editing class in the lab since the beginning of the semester, and said he is optimistic about the changes the lab will bring to the department.
"We didn't really have a magazine ground zero, and now we have that," Obbie said. "I think the product of this is going to be great."
bljackso@syr.edu
The lecture will take place at 3 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3 and will include a question and answer session.
Remnick, the fifth editor in chief of The New Yorker, which is owned by the Newhouse family, will speak as part of the Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series.
He has been the editor in chief of The New Yorker for 10 years. Previously he was a Moscow correspondent for The Washington Post, and it was in this position that he gathered information for his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Lenin's Tomb."
Before speaking in the Hergenhan Auditorium, Remnick will be a part of the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly renovated Bill Glavin magazine lab in Newhouse 1.
Melissa Chessher, department chair of magazine, newspaper and online journalism, has played a large role in organizing Remnick's appearance at Newhouse.
"He was already going to be in Syracuse, and we wanted to do something special for the lab opening," Chessher said.
The lab is named for Bill Glavin, a magazine professor who has taught at Newhouse for 35 years.
"I can't think of a more fitting and special way to acknowledge what he has done and what he values as a professor," said Chessher, who has worked with Glavin for 11 years.
Though Glavin said he appreciates the lab being named after him, he said the most important thing is how the lab will be used by students.
"I am really honored, but I'm mostly glad that our students will have a place where they can create magazines and hang out," Glavin said. "We've never had a space like this of our own."
Mark Obbie, associate professor of magazine journalism, said the lab, recently renovated with new carpet, paint and technology, is a sign of the respect magazine journalism alumni have for Glavin.
"Usually rooms are named for big donors or dead people, and this time it's a pure honor," Obbie said. "And I think that's great."
Magazine journalism students and professors who have been using the lab since the beginning of the year have already benefited.
Obbie has been teaching a section of his magazine editing class in the lab since the beginning of the semester, and said he is optimistic about the changes the lab will bring to the department.
"We didn't really have a magazine ground zero, and now we have that," Obbie said. "I think the product of this is going to be great."
bljackso@syr.edu
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