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September 29, 2008, 12:54 PM ET
Emerson College Taps Gup to Head Journalism Department
Emerson College has snagged veteran newspaperman Ted Gup to head its journalism department starting next fall. A former investigative reporter for The Washington Post — and later for Time magazine — Gup worked with the legendary Bob Woodward and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1981. He comes to Emerson from Case Western Reserve University, where he is currently a journalism professor.
Despite Gup’s storied CV, at least one student seemed less than impressed with his selection, the Berkeley Beacon reported. James O’Leary, a broadcast journalism major at Emerson, told the student newspaper that he was “surprised” and somewhat “disappointed” that the college picked a print journalist to lead the department at a time when the field is moving away from print toward broadcasting and new media. Gup’s response:
The journalist of today and tomorrow is not going to be a print journalist or a television journalist or a radio journalist or an online journalist. He or she is going to be all of the above,” he said. “I don’t want to be mistaken as primarily a print journalist. My principal interest is to help turn out journalists with fluency in as many platforms as humanly possible.
See a college press release for more details.
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