Patchogue and Brooklyn, NY – March 1, 2005 – St. Joseph’s College has announced that Woodrow Wilson Fellow Richard Hornik will visit the College for the week of March 14 through March 18, 2005. The inaugural event in a week-long series will be a public lecture on the College’s Patchogue campus in the D’Ecclesiis Auditorium, O’Connor Hall, entitled “Where Did Journalism Go Wrong? – The Roots of America’s Disillusionment with the Media.” The talk, which will take place on Tuesday, March 15, 2005 at 12:40 p.m., will be followed by a discussion with faculty and students. On Wednesday, March 16, 2005 at 12:40 p.m. Hornik will present his lecture to the Brooklyn campus in the Tuohy Hall auditorium. Beyond public lectures, Hornik will spend the week exchanging ideas with students, faculty and administrators.
Richard Hornik is an editorial consultant, specializing in corporate social responsibility issues and journalism training. He currently serves as the Director of Southeast Asia Programs of the Independent Journalism Foundation. In the summer of 2003 he was awarded a Knight International Press Fellowship for which he spent four months training journalists in Cambodia and Vietnam. In 2002 and 2003 he was editor of McKinsey & Co. publications specially prepared for the World Economic Forum in Davos.
In 2001, Hornik capped his 24-year career at Time Inc. as Executive Editor of ASIAWEEK, the company's regional news magazine. From 1997 to 2000, Hornik served as the first Business Editor of TIME’s European edition, assembling a team of staff and freelance journalists that produced award-winning coverage of the dramatic changes in the European Union at the end of the 20th century. The previous three years, Hornik worked in New York, first as Deputy Chief of Correspondents for foreign coverage and then as Director of the Time News Service, in charge of the magazine's 65 correspondents around the world. Before moving to New York, Hornik was TIME's Southeast Asia bureau chief from 1991 to 1993, focusing on political developments in Cambodia and Vietnam.
From 1987 to 1990, Hornik served as TIME's National Economics Correspondent in Washington, D.C., where he produced groundbreaking stories on global money laundering and the growing gap between rich and poor in America. Hornik was Beijing bureau chief from April 1985 to April 1987. As Warsaw bureau chief from1981 to1983, Hornik covered the rise of Solidarity and the imposition of, and resistance to, martial law. In addition to providing most of the reporting for the 1981 “Man of the Year” issue on Lech Walesa, Hornik had the last substantive interview with the Polish labor leader before his arrest on December 13, 1981.
Hornik graduated with honors in political science from Brown University in 1970. He began his career in journalism in 1971 as an economics researcher for the National Journal, while attending graduate school at George Washington University where he received an M.A. in Russian Studies. He resides in Long Island with his wife.
Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows connect a liberal education with the world beyond the campus by bringing thoughtful and successful practitioners to colleges for a week of classes and informal discussions with students and faculty. Fellows, who include government officials, business leaders, journalists, environmentalists, and medical ethicists, are matched with small colleges chosen for their commitment to the goals of the program. Together they help to equip students for the social, political, and economic settings they will enter and illuminate the roles they may play as professionals and informed citizens. This is the second consecutive year that St. Joseph’s has hosted a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the College.
About St. Joseph's College
St. Joseph's College has been dedicated to providing a diverse population of students in the New York metropolitan area with an affordable education rooted in the liberal arts tradition since 1916. Independent and coeducational, the College provides a strong academic and value-oriented education at the undergraduate and graduate levels, aiming to prepare each student for a life characterized by integrity, intellectual and spiritual values, social responsibility and service. With campuses located in the Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn and in Patchogue, Long Island, the College offers degrees in 21 majors, special course offerings and certificates, affiliated and pre-professional programs through its School of Arts and Sciences and its School of Adult and Professional Education. Graduate degrees are also offered including an Executive MBA, a Master of Science in Management, and a Master of Arts in Infant/Toddler Early Childhood Special Education. |
