Bob Woodward
The Park School of Communications at Ithaca College is committed to bringing in experts in all fields of communications for lectures, workshops, seminars, classes, and presentations. These high-profile professionals offer IC students, faculty, staff, and community the opportunity to learn, discuss, and debate issues in the field of communications.
Rick Frishman '76
How to Get Published in America
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall
Rick is the founder of Planned Television Arts, a national book publicity company, and best-selling author. He works with many of the top book editors, literary agents and publishers in America, including Simon and Schuster, Random House, Wiley, Harper Collins, Pocket Books, Penguin Putnam, and Hyperion Books. Some of the best-selling authors he has worked with include: Mitch Albom, Bill Moyers, Stephen King, Caroline Kennedy, Howard Stern, President Jimmy Carter, Mark Victor Hansen, Nelson DeMille, John Grisham, Hugh Downs, Henry Kissinger, Jack Canfield, Alan Dershowitz, Arnold Palmer, and Harvey Mackay.
Prior to PTA, Rick worked as a producer of the Barry Farber Show at WOR-AM in New York City.
He is the co-author of eight books, including national best-sellers Guerilla Publicity and Networking Magic. He recently launched the popular four-book series, Author 101.
Rick's new book, Where's Your Wow? (with co-author Robyn Spizman), was released by McGraw Hill earlier this year.
Bob Woodward
"State of Denial"
April 18, 2007
Ben Light Gymnasium, Hill Center
Arguably the most respected investigative reporter in the news business, Bob Woodward has earned nearly every American journalism award, including the Pulitzer Prize. Woodward first gained national attention when he teamed with Carl Bernstein to investigate the burglary at the Watergate office building.
Woodward is the only contemporary American writer to author at least nine number-one best-selling nonfiction books, including All the President's Men and The Final Days, coauthored with Bernstein; and The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court, coauthored by former staff writer Scott Armstrong. Others include Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi, Veil: The Secret Wars
of the CIA, The Commanders, The Man Who Would Be President: Dan Quayle, The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House, and The Choice: How Bill Clinton Won. In 2000 he published Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom, a national best-selling look at the American economy, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, and Greenspan's economic legacy. Other books include Bush at War, Plan of Attack, and State of Denial.
Named one of the best investigative reporters in America by the New York Times, Bob Woodward has been the assistant managing editor of investigative news for the Washington Post since 1982.
Prior to reporting, Woodward served in the U.S. Navy as a communications officer. He began his career as a "newspaper man" with the Sentinel, out of Montgomery County, Maryland. In 1971 he joined the Post and in 1979 became assistant managing editor of Metropolitan News.
Susan Orlean
Author of The Orchid Thief
April 12, 2007
Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall
Susan Orlean became a staff writer for The New Yorker in 1992. She had been contributing both signed articles and "Talk of the Town" pieces since 1987.
Orlean has written more than 50 "Talk of the Town" pieces, as well as "Profiles and Reporter at Large" articles, and is currently writing a series of American popular culture columns, called "Popular Chronicles." The "Chronicles" thus far have included subjects such as an article on designer Bill Blass, Harlem high school basketball star Felipe Lopez, the friends and neighbors of Tonya Harding, and D.J. Red Alert, a hip-hop radio star in New York.
Prior to joining The New Yorker, Orlean was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and also at Vogue, where she wrote on numerous figures in both the music and fashion industries. Previously, she had been a columnist, first for the Boston Phoenix, and then for the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. She has also written for The New York Times Magazine, Spy, Esquire, and Outside.
Orlean has written several books, including, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Ordinary People, a collection of stories which was released in January 2001; Red Sox and Blue Fish (1989), a compilation of columns she wrote for the Globe Sunday Magazine; Saturday Night (1990), a journal of essays which chronicle the Saturday nights she spent in communities across the country; The Orchid Thief, (1999) a narrative about orchid poachers in Florida. The Orchid Thief has been made into the movie, Adaptation written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze.
Other guest speakers who have visited Ithaca College include:
Dan Heffner ’78, executive producer of the Saw movies
Danny Green ’85, cofounder of the Smoking Gun website
Susannah Ludwig ’93, documentary producer
Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and award-winning author
Giulio Capua ’85, publisher of Gourmet magazine
Larry Kane, former Philadephia news anchor
Allen Krashesky, ABC 7 News in Chicago
Lynn Johnson, photojournalist for National Geographic and Sports Illustrated
Chuck Lewis, founder and executive director of the Center for Public Integrity
Bob Scinto ’68, soap opera director for ABC-TV