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Media summit explores aspects of public trust in news, journalism Colin Hawkins News Editor chawkins@oswegonian.com On Wednesday Oct. 23, Oswego State hosted the 15th annual Dr. Lewis B. O’Donnell Media Summit, on the topic of public trust in the media, in the Waterman Theatre in Tyler Hall. The media summit is a yearly panel featuring professionals and experts in the media field discussing a timely topic in contemporary media. To commemorate 15 years of the media summit, this year’s topic revisited the first summit’s topic of public trust in the media. “For 15 years, we’ve welcomed leading professionals to campus to tackle some of the most pressing issues facing the media today,” Scott Furlong, provost for Oswego State, said at the event. “Today, that tradition continues with a nod to the past. 15 years ago, a distinguished panel of experts was asked the following question, ‘How can the news media recover public trust?’ 15 years later, we find ourselves still asking that very question.” The panel was moderated by Kendis Gibson, a 1994 Oswego State graduate and currently a weekend anchor for MSNBC. Other
expert panelists included Cristina Domingues, a professional broadcast journalist and anchor of “Your Morning Rochester” for Spectrum News, Doug Schneider, an experienced reporter for USA Today Network out of Wisconsin, Jennifer Williams, senior foreign editor for the online news publication Vox and Sharon Friedlander Newman, a long-time broadcast journalist and 1979 Oswego State graduate who is currently a senior producer on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour with Brian Williams.” The panel began with a clip from 2005 of a C-SPAN segment on the first media summit. “Television, radio, iPods, cell phones, you name it, Americans last year spent more time using media devices than any other activity while they were awake,” Oswego State President Deborah Stanley said in the clip from 2005. “Much of this is diversion, entertainment, but there is a segment of what we call the media that has always defined us as Americans and defined our nation as a democracy: journalism.” The clip interspersed segments of statements from the 2005 panel experts with more recent news
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The panelists, from all different parts of the media industry, shared their thoughts on media trust.
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Oswego to spruce up quad Central campus concrete will be going green
Photo submitted by Facilities Services The preferred option for replacing the current concrete quad in central campus will see greenspaces and flowing pathways between buildings.
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Chief Copy Editor rmckenna@oswegonian.com Oswego State has a long list of renovations for the central area surrounding Hewitt Hall, Lanigan Hall, Penfield Library and Mahar Hall, and the plans are elaborate. Hewitt Hall’s reconstruction has already started and there is talk within the Facilities Services Department of Oswego State to expand that through the rest of the central campus. Ideas include replacing concrete with green space, new spots for students to hang out and renovated buildings. “To continue serpentine flow through the quad is the ongoing direction,” Amy Enwright, project coordinator for Facilities Services major projects, said. The main idea of these renovations is to pull the campus together.
The central campus area is one that almost all students pass through every day, but at the moment is dulled with cracked concrete. With the ongoing construction, the area surrounding the quad will be more connected to the west and east sides of campus. The plan maps out that the concrete will be replaced with grass, trees and shrubs making the area more exciting and full of life. The director of major projects for Facilities Services, Allen Bradberry, said there could be around a 72% reduction in the pavement in the area. Through the green spaces there would be a natural flow of paths that connect with the other side of campus for students to walk through, Bradberry said. “We have an opportunity to … make it more inviting, more innovative,” Bradberry said. The team working on this wants to make students feel welcomed to
the area around the quad. Students do not feel this way with the current display of the area. Art major Shea McCarthy was involved with the project of painting the mural in the quad and said they did it to bring a pop of color to the area and to draw attention to it. “[We] want people to feel invited to come in,” McCarthy said. The art department buildings are located on central campus, and art students do not feel that others know they are welcomed inside. The idea with the mural and other art projects line up with the proposal of the construction on central campus, to invite students to spend more time there. The proposal for these renovations is written in a presentation booklet called the “Hewitt/Penfield/ Lanigan Quad Study.”
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