The Center And The Newhouse School

The Center for the Study of Popular Television is located within the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. The Newhouse School provides a dynamic educational environment for over 2,000 students pursuing bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in every area of public communications.

The Newhouse School has a long history in communications education and has established a national reputation for excellence, with many of its programs ranked as leaders in their fields. The Center for the Study of Popular Television, in its five years of existence, has become one of these leaders by providing scholarship, commentary, and education in the areas of television and popular culture.

Students at the Newhouse School, as well as students from across Syracuse University, have the opportunity to enroll in courses taught by faculty associated with the Center for the Study of Popular Television. Such courses include television criticism, issues in popular culture, television drama in the 80’s and 90’s, the history of television programming from 1945 to the present, movies about television, and the television/film business.

The Center brings in visiting professors to teach courses in television history and American popular culture. These visitors enable the Newhouse School to offer courses that would not otherwise be part of its core curriculum.

The Center also supports research at Syracuse University by soliciting proposals for funding in support of research projects, books, articles, etc., dealing with any aspect of television and popular culture. Cross-disciplinary proposals are encouraged from all faculty and graduate students on campus in order to support the study of television and popular culture from many different points of view.

In addition to these academic and research activities, the Center has become a source of expertise to the nation’s media on all aspects of television and American popular culture. Commentary from the Center’s director has been featured in the following media:

·	CBS’s “60 Minutes,” “48 Hours,” “This Morning,” and “The Evening News with Dan Rather”
·	NBC’s “Dateline,” “Today,” and “Later Today”
·	ABC’s “20/20,” “World News Tonight,” and “Good Morning America”
·	PBS’s “Newshour with Jim Lehrer”
·	MSNBC’s “News with Brian Williams,” “Time and Again,” “Headliners & Legends,” and “Playback”
·	CNN’s “Newsstand”
·	CNBC’s “Upfront Tonight with Geraldo Rivera”
·	NPR’s “All Things Considered,” “Morning Edition,” “Talk of the Nation,” “Fresh Air” “On the Media” and “Anthem”
·	The New York Times
·	The Washington Post
·	The Wall Street Journal
·	USA Today
·	Time
·	Newsweek
·	Fortune
·	TV Guide
·	Variety