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Journalism, Broadcasting and Public Relations

Support for the development of research skills as students learn to create the media that impacts our politics, economy, and culture.

The Liberty Award

The SPJ want to award college newspapers the print election editions ahead of the presidential election, on November 5th.                   

 The Liberty Award will recognize the best printed election previews distributed on campus between Tuesday, October 1 and Thursday, October 31, 2024.

Any student run organization at a public or private college is eligible to enter.

There is no cost to enter.

A Selection of Supporting Databases @ Drake Library

Research Guides @ Drake Library

The following list of Drake Library's research guides will assist you in your beginning and background research

Business and Economic: Offers information on business statistics, international business, marketing, advertising and consumers

Copyright: Copyright information on U.S. and international laws from books to streaming media 

Government Documents: Documents produced by branches and agencies of the Federal Government and New York State are available online.

Legal Resources: Law databases, how to cite the law and external links from federal statutes to NYS school laws.  

New York State: Information, Legislation, Government & DocumentNYS government links on topics ranging from agriculture to voter registration. 

Newspapers & Images:  Free access to the NYTimes, along with current newspaper databases, historical newspaper databases and art images databases

Statistical Information:  U. S. and international statistics in fourteen categories from agriculture to religion 

Pulitzer Prize Winner: Spot News Photography

1977 Pulitzer Prize winner for Spot News Photography:  Stanley Forman of Boston Herald American

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stanly Forman's Pulitzer Prize winning photo, The Soiling of Old Glory, remains iconic, decades after it was captured. A white teenager, Joseph Rakes, assaults a black lawyer and civil rights activist, Ted Landsmark, seconds before he is assaulted by a second teenager with an American flag. The attack took place on April 5, 1976, during a
Boston protest against court-ordered desegregation of school busing.

 Forman, S. (1976). [Photograph]. Boston Herald American.  https://www.npr.org/2016/09/18/494442131/life-after-iconic-photo-todays-parallels-of-american-flags-role-in-racial-protes