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Freedom Forum Honors George Thottam

New Rochelle, New York, July 12, 2000 - George Thottam, a professor in the department of mass communication at Iona College, will be honored as a Freedom Forum Journalism Teacher for the year 2000. He will be presented with a medal and a $10,000 check at The Freedom Forum's award luncheon in August.

The Journalism Teacher of the Year recognizes outstanding faculty members for excellence in classroom teaching in the core areas of print and broadcast journalism: reporting, editing, journalism history, media law or ethics.

Professor Thottam developed the College's largest undergraduate program while teaching at Iona for the past 20 years. Among the 28 different undergraduate and graduate courses he has taught are news writing, news reporting, copy editing, feature writing and sports journalism. He has been instrumental in the design of 19 of the undergraduate and graduate journalism courses, and established the Journalism Institute for Minority High School Students and Journalism and Mass Communication Day to attract high school students to journalism.

The Freedom Forum is a nonpartisan, international foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. It was established in 1991 under the direction of founder Allen H. Neuharth, as successor to the Gannett Foundation, created by Frank E. Gannett in 1935.

For questions or more information please contact:
Meghan Finn
Public Relations Office
Iona College, 715 North Avenue, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10801
tel: 914 633-2005 fax: 914 637-2711

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