10/29/2008
The New York Times sports editor Tom Jolly will discuss the newspaper's coverage of the 2008 Olympics during a talk on Thursday, Oct. 30, at 8 p.m. in Sperry Center, Room 204. Jolly will be joined by Justin Sablich, a 2005 graduate of SUNY Cortland, who produces Web news for the sports desk at The New York Times.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the President's Office, the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost's Office, the Communication Studies Department, the Alumni Affairs Office, the Campus Artists and Lecture Series, the Dragon Chronicle, WSUC-FM, and CSTV.
Named sports editor in 2003, Jolly has worked at The New York Times since 1993 as a copy editor and assistant sports editor in the Sports Department and as assistant news editor. From 1985 to 1993, Jolly was at the Pittsburgh Press as associate sports editor, deputy editor, overnight editor and copy editor. He served briefly at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as deputy sports editor until he was hired by the Times. After earning a bachelor's degree in journalism from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1977, Jolly began his career as a reporter for the Delaware Gazette in Ohio. He was a reporter and editor between 1982 and 1985 at The Capitol in Annapolis, Md.
Sablich joined The New York Times in 2006 after earning a master's degree in new media at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. While at Syracuse, Sablich interned for Internet Consulting Services and for Syracuse.com.
A native of Binghamton, Sablich received his bachelor's degree in communication studies, with a concentration in journalism, from SUNY Cortland. As an undergraduate, he covered Fantasy Baseball and Major League Baseball for SportsFiends.com and wrote about music and sports for other online publications.
For more information on the lecture, contact John Hartsock, associate professor of communications studies, at (607) 753-4103 or at john.hartsock@cortland.edu.
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