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Every other Sunday, Sheryl McCarthy pores over a PDF of the Knight News<\/em> before it goes to press. Just as she\u2019s done as a columnist for major dailies, she will offer candid, constructive comments. Once a college journalist herself, she enjoys critiquing the writers and editors of QC\u2019s award-winning student newspaper. They\u2019re \u201cvery dedicated, they work very hard, and they\u2019re fun to be around,\u201d she says.<\/p>\nAn op-ed contributor to USA Today<\/em>, McCarthy trained her journalistic voice as a New York Newsday<\/em> columnist who took thought-provoking stands on social and political issues. After that paper folded in 1995, she became nationally syndicated through its parent company until it, too, was \u201ceviscerated\u201d in 2005, she notes.<\/p>\nNow in her third year of teaching journalism and mentoring students at ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ, McCarthy also hosts \u201cOne to One\u201d on CUNY cable TV. In talking with students about critical issues in journalism, she can draw upon her extensive experience as a reporter in Boston, Baltimore, and New York; education editor for the New York Daily News<\/em>; national correspondent for ABC-TV News; and talk show host on WNET-TV and WNYC-TV. Among her honors was a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard.<\/p>\nComing of age in Birmingham\u2019s civil rights battleground, McCarthy aspired to move people in the way that To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em> had, she recalls. After graduating from Mt. Holyoke College, she couldn\u2019t earn a living writing fiction. However, \u201cby being a journalist, you were also being a storyteller,\u201d she discovered. \u201cI just wanted to tell the truth about things that interested me. I still do. There are a lot of truths to be told.\u201d<\/p>\nTwo of her favorite books about \u201cthe arc of life\u201d<\/strong>: The Waves<\/em> by Virginia Woolf and Are You Somebody?<\/em> by Nuala O\u2019Faolain.<\/p>\nSurprising fact<\/strong>: A \u201cvery good\u201d pianist growing up, as an adult she has sung in well-known choral groups, given two voice recitals, and been a paid church choir singer. \u201cMusic has played a real big part in my life,\u201d she affirms. \u201cI\u2019ve gotten a lot of joy out of singing.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Name: Sheryl McCarthy Title:ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ Distinguished Lecturer Department: Journalism Degree(s): J.D., M.A. English, Columbia University Contact Information: Phone: (718) 997-2868 Email: sheryl.mccarthy@qc.cuny.edu “I always thought of myself as a practicing journalist rather than a teacher of journalism. Then one day you realize that you actually know a lot of stuff that could be helpful to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"wf_page_folders":[137],"class_list":["post-1164","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}