Over the past three years, it has been my good fortune to have several important personalities from the world of sport visit Western New England College: Roderick Jackson, the Birmingham high school girls' basketball coach who won a landmark Title IX victory in the U.S. Supreme Court; Dick Pound, the Canadian IOC veteran and former chair of the World Anti-Doping Agency; Ron Froehlich, the president of the International World Games Association; Bob Beamon, the Olympic long jump champion; Bobby Valentine, the former manager of the NY Mets and Texas Rangers; and Donna Lopiano, the former CEO of the Women's Sports Foundation.On September 17, 2009, at 7 p.m. in Sleith Hall, Lynn Zinser (photo), a sports writer for The New York Times, will continue this speaker series by talking about "The Business of Sports Journalism." A sports reporter for the NYT since 2003, Zinser has covered the New York Giants, New York Rangers, U.S. Open (of both golf and tennis), and Olympics, among many other assignments, and writes the NYT’s regular “Leading Off” column, which is a news roundup of people, teams, and issues in the sporting world. Zinser is also the Times’ sports web writer-editor, and she posts frequent “tweets” on Twitter at http://twitter.com/zinsernyt.
Ms. Zinser is a former president of the Association of Women in Sports Media and has received numerous accolades, including several awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors. A graduate of Syracuse University majoring in newspaper journalism, Zinser also teaches sports writing at New York University. Previously, she worked for the Memphis Commercial Appeal, Charlotte Observer, Philadelphia Daily News, Colorado Springs Gazette, and Newark Star-Ledger.
The event is free and open to the public.
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