Andrew Salomon
Associate Professor of Journalism
I worked for two decades as a daily journalist: as an assistant sports editor at The Washington Post, assistant arts and entertainment editor at Newsday, and as national news editor at Backstage magazine. I have reported extensively on labor strife in Hollywood and on Broadway, as well as on the intersection of technology and the arts. I have also covered professional, college, and high school sports and written book reviews for Politico.
More About Me
The Purchase Beat (2011-present): Faculty Adviser. History: With the invaluable help of 10 journalism students, Professor Robin Lynch and her Community Design class, I started the student-run arts magazine (print and online). Since its inception, it has drawn together hundreds of students from majors across the college, many of whom have used their experience to have careers in journalism and related fields.
In 2017, I started the Richard & Marylee Salomon Fund for Journalists in honor of my parents. This fund contributes money to an early-career journalist from Purchase College for a significant work of nonfiction reportage.
Grant Recipients
2018: Jessica Glenza, Class of 2011: for the creation of South of the South, a literary journal featuring journalism, poetry, and photography. It centers on a community of writers, photographers, artists, and politically independent people in Florida.
2020: Curt Brodner and Ellie Houghtaling, Class of 2019: to provide ongoing aid for their Twitter feed @nyc_protests. Brodner and Houghtaling started the feed in the wake of the uprisings following the murder of George Floyd. It continues, under new management, to provide news and information about the intersections of policing, housing, race, and poverty.
2021: Sophia Hadeshian, Class of 2020: Among her many duties, Sophia is the creative director of Azad Archives, a news and information platform “committed to breaking the silence on the most important issues” facing the Armenian community. She used the funds to bolster the website and buy a camera, which has nearly circumnavigated the globe, passing among Armenians to record lives and accomplishments of Armenian citizens and the diaspora.
2023: Allee Manning, Class of 2014: Allee created The Westchester LGBTQ+ History Project, a website that contains a wealth of information about queer communities within Westchester County. Allee, a Westchester native, has done what all good scholars due: sharing her knowledge with the wider world to enhance existing communities and creating new ones. As she wrote on the site, “Westchester LGBTQ+ history is not necessarily well-known by its residents. In the spirit of education and celebration, this project was born out of a desire to change that.”
Representative Courses
- Faculty Adviser, The Beat: print & online
- Covering the Arts
- Journalism I
- Criticism & Reviewing Workshop
- The History of Journalism
- The Art of Sportswriting
- The Beat: Magazine Production