by Heather Hayes | Nov 24, 2025 | Faculty
A piece by MCVA program director and associate professor Kate Fink, titled “Nonprofit news outlets are often scared that selling ads could jeopardize their tax-exempt status, but IRS records show that’s been rare,” is in The Conversation.
Fink shares on LinkedIn, “This study grew out of a project funded by the Pace University Helene & Grant Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship. I’m grateful to the nonprofit news leaders I interviewed for that project for their generosity and candor.”
Read it here.
by Julian Clarke-Dixon | Nov 17, 2025 | Faculty
Clinical assistant professor Heather Hayes of the Media, Communications, and Visual Arts Department unpacks why Kim Kardashian’s critically panned “All’s Fair” is a smash hit in the Newsweek article, “Prestige TV Is Over: Why Everyone Is Obsessed With ‘the Worst Show Ever.'” Read it here.
by Heather Hayes | Nov 10, 2025 | Faculty
Associate professor Melanie La Rosa’s new book, “Contemporary Post-Production: Create, Cut, Collaborate, Color, Deliver,” is available to purchase on Amazon, among other retailers.
“‘Contemporary Post-Production’ is an engaging and insightful guide through the often fraught and stressful phase of post-production. It brings the art and craft of editing to life, describes contemporary workflows, and demonstrates how to break the post-production process into manageable phases. It also explores editing approaches used by five award-winning filmmakers across fiction films, documentaries, and interactive works” (contemporarypostbook.com).
by Heather Hayes | Nov 10, 2025 | Events, Faculty
On Thursday, November 20, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., join the Media, Communications, and Visual Arts Department and Veterans Services in Kessel Gottesman Room for “The Presence of Absence: Life After Loss in the Aftermath of War — Artist Talk & Book Signing with Prof. Inbal Abergil.”
Abergil, the sole speaker, will give a 30-minute artist talk, followed by 15 minutes for Q&A and 15 minutes for signing books.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel, where we will host the livestream for those unable to attend in person.
About “The Presence of Absence”:
“The Presence of Absence” is a decade-long documentary body of work that reveals the many layers of trauma, loss, grief, mourning, and healing, in the aftermath of war.
Inbal Abergil weaves stories of the Gold Star Families whose relatives were killed in action, together with still lifes of the loved one’s personal effects, and portraits of the Casualty Notification Officers who deliver the horrific news to the families of loved ones killed in military service. The still lifes reveal the survivors’s methods of coping with death, and how an object can contain the presence of a loved one, reminding us how painful and comforting it can be at the same time. The portraits urge us to look at what no family member wants to meet at their front door, and yet the notifiers knock on the door, knowing that everyone involved will be scarred for life; each time, they hope to remember their script and make no mistakes so that healing will be possible.
While every loss is unique, the Four-channel video brings our attention to four Gold Star Mothers who lost their sons and discuss how to continue living after the war. They offer guidelines for dealing with loss and how to approach others who might be struggling with grief. The photographs, personal stories, and videos in “The Presence of Absence” invite us to reflect on the poignant story of a community of survivors who keep the memories alive as they strive to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of loss, and invite us to create a platform for reflection and discussion of the human price of conflict.
by Heather Hayes | Oct 27, 2025 | Faculty
Michelle Pulaski Behling, associate professor and assistant chair of the Media, Communications, and Visual Arts Department, shares her insights on the biggest issues facing Major League Baseball today and the effect of fantasy sports on fan enjoyment in the WalletHub article “Best Baseball Cities.” Read it here.
by Heather Hayes | Oct 27, 2025 | Faculty
MCVA clinical associate professor Lou Guarneri shares his thoughts about the new Joseph Petzval 35 mm f/2 Focus-coupled Bokeh Control Art Lens with Lomography. Read “Sweet Lou’s Cinematic Test Drive of the Joseph Petzval 35 mm Focus-coupled Art Lens” and view Guarneri’s photography here.
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