Stony Brook, NY - February 11th, 2016 - The WSHU Public Radio Group has opened a Long Island News Bureau in Stony Brook, NY in partnership with Stony Brook University’s School of Journalism. The bureau, located in close proximity to the university, will serve as the base for WSHU’s Long Island operations. The station is the leading NPR member station in Suffolk County, NY, and will use its new facilities to expand its Long Island news coverage.
In a unique partnership with the Stony Brook University School of Journalism, WSHU will provide in-depth, hands-on learning experiences for undergraduate and graduate students. Operating under the guidance of WSHU News Director Dan Katz, interns and graduate assistants will have the opportunity to learn from WSHU’s award-winning reporter Charles Lane and from NPR personnel. They will also be mentored by veteran New York City and Long Island reporter Terry Sheridan.
“Establishing a dedicated Long Island news team is exciting for several reasons,” said Katz. “We’ll provide our listeners with more daily news and in-depth feature stories on issues that originate from Long Island. We’ll also provide solid training to the journalists of the next generation.”
Howard Schneider, Dean of the Stony Brook University School of Journalism, added that, “We’re extremely excited about the opportunities this presents for our students. The training and on-air experience they get at an NPR affiliate like WSHU will be invaluable in preparing them to be the next generation of audio news reporters and storytellers.”
Since it first began broadcasting classical music and NPR News on Long Island in 1987, WSHU Public Radio has become Suffolk County’s principal source of public radio programming. WSHU’s news team has long reported on the area’s important issues. Charles Lane won a National Edward R. Murrow Award—one of the most prestigious prizes in journalism--in 2009 for his continuing coverage of Latino hate crimes and the murder of Marcelo Lucero in Patchogue.
About WSHU Public Radio
The WSHU Public Radio Group is a not-for-profit, member-supported station that brings the best in public broadcasting to more than 272,000* listeners on Long Island and Connecticut.
An NPR member since 1984, the station airs highly regarded national programs such as Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, and Marketplace; locally-produced classical music; and its own regional news coverage for which it has won eight Edward R. Murrow Awards and scores of other prizes.
Its classical music program Sunday Baroque is syndicated and heard on over 100 stations nationwide. In addition to broadcasting on 12 traditional radio frequencies, it streams all of its programming at www.wshu.org.
About Stony Brook University School of Journalism
The Stony Brook University School of Journalism is the only School of Journalism in the New York State (SUNY) system. It is headed by Dean Howard Schneider, the former managing editor and editor of Newsday. In addition to housing an undergraduate and graduate program, it houses three Centers: The Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting, The Center for News Literacy, which educates the next generation of news consumers, and the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science.
*Source: Nielsen National Regional Database Spring 2015, P12+ M-Su 6a-12 midnight.