Newhouse alumni

Latino Heritage Month speaker embraces identity and offers encouragement to students
By Jessie Yuqing Shi
September 25, 2015 - 4:05pm
Syracuse University alumna Janel Martinez returned to speak about her experiences at the Newhouse School and in the media industry as an Afro-Latina woman.

Syracuse University alumna and multimedia journalist Janel Martinez spoke on her activism regarding Afro-Latina diversity issues in media and shared her experience as a student of color at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Thursday, Sept. 24, at Peter Graham Scholarly Commons at Bird Library.

SU alumni explore the impact of 9/11 with documentary
By Benjamin Fang
March 18, 2013 - 8:41pm
In 'We Were Quiet Once,' a community grapples with the aftershocks of a tragedy that unfolded right in their backyard.

Somerset County is a quiet, small community located in southwest Pennsylvania. It was relatively unknown to the world until the events on September 11, 2001, when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into an open field in the community. Hijacked by terrorists, the plane was reportedly headed to Washington, D.C., but passengers fought to take back to the aircraft, ultimately crashing and killing all 44 passengers on board.

'Mad Men' writer visits Syracuse University
By Emily Shearing
October 19, 2011 - 11:41am
SU alum Chris Provenzano finds success as a screenwriter in Hollywood.

As a writer for the first season of "Mad Men," it almost drove Chris Provenzano crazy.

"It was very, very intense," Provenzano said of working in the "Mad Men" writers' room. "(On the show) everyone is so terrible to everyone else ... and the demand was to pull the most terrible stories from your own life. I found it a hard place to spend most of my waking hours."