Journalism school honors its grads
Charlie Specht
Issue date: 10/3/08 Section: News
Coppola said Eggleston possessed an uncanny ability and willingness to go behind the scenes to find crucial facts for each story.
"Her determination to dig for the story is what the faculty determined would be the criteria for giving her the award," Coppola said.
Greg Mitchell, '70, received the Alumnus of the Year Award. Mitchell has been the editor of Editor & Publisher magazine since 2002 and has guided the publication to 11 Jesse H. Neal awards, the top business press prize. Mitchell's articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times. Mitchell released his latest book, "So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, Pundits - and the President - Failed on Iraq" in March 2008.
Mike Vaccaro served as the ceremony's keynote speaker. A 1989 St. Bonaventure graduate and Hellinger Award winner, Vaccaro is the lead sports columnist for the New York Post. Vaccaro is the author of "Emperors and Idiots," a book about the New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox rivalry and "1941: The Greatest Year in Sports".
"Her determination to dig for the story is what the faculty determined would be the criteria for giving her the award," Coppola said.
Greg Mitchell, '70, received the Alumnus of the Year Award. Mitchell has been the editor of Editor & Publisher magazine since 2002 and has guided the publication to 11 Jesse H. Neal awards, the top business press prize. Mitchell's articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times. Mitchell released his latest book, "So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, Pundits - and the President - Failed on Iraq" in March 2008.
Mike Vaccaro served as the ceremony's keynote speaker. A 1989 St. Bonaventure graduate and Hellinger Award winner, Vaccaro is the lead sports columnist for the New York Post. Vaccaro is the author of "Emperors and Idiots," a book about the New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox rivalry and "1941: The Greatest Year in Sports".
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