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I am a free-lance writer specializing in profiles of news-makers and Central New York business news and trends. I have taught newswriting and ethics courses at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. I earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from the State University College at Oswego (1977) and a master's degree in newspaper journalism from Newhouse (1999). I began teaching at Newhouse in 2000, and I continue to teach there. I took early retirement from The (Syracuse) Post-Standard in May 2007 after 27 years of working there as a reporter, copy editor, news designer, front-page editor, editorial writer, night city editor and bureau chief. I have written frequently for CNY Business Exchange, CNY The Good Life and several other regional magazines. I've also won awards for newspaper editing and design. Among the courses that I've taught at SU are: NEW205 (introduction to news writing), NEW305 (intermediate writing and reporting), NEW345 (critical perspectives on the news), NEW605 (Boot Camp for incoming grad students), NEW608 (Principles of journalism and ethics) and NEW617 (advanced reporting and writing grad course).

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

TURNING LAYOFFS INTO JOBS: How Bitzer Scroll did it

A German company, Bitzer Scroll, has quietly invested tens of millions of dollars to build a high-tech factory here in CNY. The company is looking for a local site to build an even bigger factory to make  new air conditioning compressors that were pioneered by an elite group of local engineers. It's an unexpected twist in the legacy of the air conditioning industry in CNY, which began in the long-ago days of Willis Carrier. Here is a link to a story I wrote about this for November 2011 edition of CNY Business Exchange:

http://bit.ly/vGZgQw


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