 A nonprofit, national membership organization founded in 1976, the Alliance represents over 1,000 public, educational and governmental access organizations and community media centers throughout the country. Winning for a half-hour segment produced during Spring 2003, "Inside Lehman" is created as part of an internship offered within the College's major in mass communications. Students attend editorial meetings and research, write and execute the production of a full television segment for the program. The experience has proven so popular that some students return again as volunteers. Congratulating the team on its award, Dr. Marlene Gottlieb, Dean of Arts and Humanities, described the project as "an excellent example" of the quality of the College's mass communication program, which has added new faculty over the past year as well as a new computer-based lab for radio production. Prof. Tom O'Hanlon, who teaches the internship, has worked in broadcasting production and has also been heard as a reporter and anchor at several major radio and television stations in New York City, including WOR, WCBS and WNBC. Focusing on events and programs taking place at Lehman and in the surrounding community, "Inside Lehman" is broadcast on BronxNet, the municipal access station located on the Lehman campus, as well as on CUNY TV. Prof. Lynne Van Voorhis is executive producer of the program, and Orlando Lorca is the director. The mass communications major prepares professionals in the fields of radio and television production, professional writing, editing, proofreading, news retrieval and research, video editing, film production, script writing, voice and diction, and sound technology.
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ehman's student-produced video magazine, "Inside Lehman,"
has won the top award for special-interest programming from the Northeast
Region of the Alliance for Community Media. The award was presented at a
ceremony in Portland, Maine, during the region's Sixth Annual Fall Video
Festival and Conference. Lehman was the only college represented among the
27 categories of award winners.