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June 20, 2007
Alum becomes Pentagon spokesman
Geoff Morrell, '92, a reporter for ABC News, is leaving his post as a White House correspondent to become the Pentagon press secretary. Read the story.
June 18, 2007
From Harlem to Ohio: Alum still feels at home
Efrem Graham, '94, has gone from working as a page at NBC to being a co-anchor and reporter for WTVG-TV in Toldeo, Ohio. Read the interview with Efrem.
June 5, 2007
Street Food in New York
Tara Kyle,'07 reports for Condé Nast, a job she began in January, when she was still a student. Read her story.
June 5, 2007
Alum receives Livingston Award
Joshua Boak '05 of The Blade (Toledo, OH) won a Livingston Award today for “Business as Usual,” a series that uncovers groundbreaking economic research that clarifies why some states, specifically Ohio, can’t maintain a healthy economy. The Livingston Awards recognize outstanding achievement by journalists under the age of 35 in the previous year. This year’s finalists include the following alumni: Greg Gilderman '07; Claire Hoffman '04, of The Los Angeles Times; Andrea Elliott ’99, of The New York Times; and Lydia Polgreen ’00, of The New York Times. See the full list of finalists.
June 4, 2007
Alum masters project leads to film
When Mark Fass, '04 was a student here, he had an idea for his masters project. He planned to write about the experiences of laypeople who shape the law, i.e., the Mirandas, and others, whose lawsuits become binding precedent. "The first person I tried to reach was Linda Riss," says Fass. "I remembered her from a case I studied in law school."
Fass spoke with Riss and her husband, Burt Pugach, and their story became the center of his master's project, an excerpt of which was published in The New York Times in March 2004 -- the 30th anniversary of Pugach's release from jail.
Jump to the present, and find a new documentary film titled "Crazy Love" which has received a lot of media attention. It follows the same bizarre love story of Riss and Pugach, captured on film by director Dan Klores.
Riss and Pugach had been an item back in the 50s, but Riss had ended it. A few years later, Riss sued the NYPD for failing to protect her from her ex-boyfriend, Pugach, who hired thugs to throw lye in her face, blinding her. Although Pugach was convicted and served several years in jail, and Riss lost her case against the NYPD, when Pugach was released, he and Riss got back together, married, and have remained together.
One well-written masters, one well-received film, one very strange story.More News Stories from 2006 & 2007
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