Nick Hirshon
A former New York City journalist, Dr. Nicholas Hirshon is an associate professor of communication at William Paterson University in New Jersey. He holds a Bachelor’s in journalism from St. John’s University (2006), a Master’s in journalism from Columbia University (2008), and a doctorate in mass communication from Ohio University (2016).
From 2006 to 2011, Hirshon worked as a reporter at the New York Daily News, where he amassed more than 1,000 bylines covering a mixture of breaking and community news. He also wrote three series that sparked efforts to save historic sites such as the former home of baseball player Jackie Robinson and the longest continuously operated movie theater in the United States. In 2010, Hirshon received an award from a prominent historic preservation group, the Historic Districts Council, for his coverage of forgotten sites in the borough of Queens. He has also freelanced for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Hockey News.
Hirshon is the author of the upcoming book We Want Fish Sticks: The Bizarre and Infamous Rebranding of the New York Islanders, coming out in December via the University of Nebraska Press. He previously wrote two other books, Images of America: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum (2010), on the Long Island arena known for hosting the NHL’s New York Islanders, and Images of America: Forest Hills (2013), about the New York City neighborhood that hosted the U.S. Open tennis tournament for six decades. He has been interviewed about his books by the CBS television affiliate in New York City and the radio station that airs Islanders games.
Hirshon's work has been published in the peer-reviewed journals Journalism History, the International Journal of Sport Communication, and Case Studies in Sport Management. His research has also been recognized with awards and honors at several academic conferences. Most recently, his paper on the groundbreaking association between New York City Mayor John Lindsay and the 1969 New York Mets received the 2015 Outstanding Student Paper Award from the American Journalism Historians Association.
Hirshon has taught journalism courses at Ohio University (2013-2016), St. John’s University (2010-2013), and LaGuardia Community College in the City University of New York (2009-2013). He was the faculty adviser of the St. John's chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and a consultant for the LaGuardia student newspaper. Hirshon received an AEJMC Promising Professors Award in 2014 in recognition of his “excellence and innovation” in teaching. In 2015, his Ohio University students nominated him for a Graduate Associate Outstanding Teaching Award. He became the first journalism instructor to win the award in eight years.
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From 2006 to 2011, Hirshon worked as a reporter at the New York Daily News, where he amassed more than 1,000 bylines covering a mixture of breaking and community news. He also wrote three series that sparked efforts to save historic sites such as the former home of baseball player Jackie Robinson and the longest continuously operated movie theater in the United States. In 2010, Hirshon received an award from a prominent historic preservation group, the Historic Districts Council, for his coverage of forgotten sites in the borough of Queens. He has also freelanced for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Hockey News.
Hirshon is the author of the upcoming book We Want Fish Sticks: The Bizarre and Infamous Rebranding of the New York Islanders, coming out in December via the University of Nebraska Press. He previously wrote two other books, Images of America: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum (2010), on the Long Island arena known for hosting the NHL’s New York Islanders, and Images of America: Forest Hills (2013), about the New York City neighborhood that hosted the U.S. Open tennis tournament for six decades. He has been interviewed about his books by the CBS television affiliate in New York City and the radio station that airs Islanders games.
Hirshon's work has been published in the peer-reviewed journals Journalism History, the International Journal of Sport Communication, and Case Studies in Sport Management. His research has also been recognized with awards and honors at several academic conferences. Most recently, his paper on the groundbreaking association between New York City Mayor John Lindsay and the 1969 New York Mets received the 2015 Outstanding Student Paper Award from the American Journalism Historians Association.
Hirshon has taught journalism courses at Ohio University (2013-2016), St. John’s University (2010-2013), and LaGuardia Community College in the City University of New York (2009-2013). He was the faculty adviser of the St. John's chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and a consultant for the LaGuardia student newspaper. Hirshon received an AEJMC Promising Professors Award in 2014 in recognition of his “excellence and innovation” in teaching. In 2015, his Ohio University students nominated him for a Graduate Associate Outstanding Teaching Award. He became the first journalism instructor to win the award in eight years.
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Dahal attended the United Nations General Assembly in September 2023 and granted the only interview of his trip to American Journalism associate editor Nicholas Hirshon. Speaking in his hotel room in Manhattan a day before he addressed the General Assembly and then embarked on a closely watched visit to China, Dahal outlined his priorities, such as addressing the ailing economy and effects of climate change in Nepal, and he voiced support for freedom of the press while warning against social media that disrupts “discipline and harmony.”
In separate conversations with American Journalism associate editor Nicholas Hirshon, Senator Wyden and Congressman Raskin described how their parents’ journalism inspired their roles as advocates for press freedom. Wyden also discussed his favorite journalism books and movies, while Raskin reflected on the roles of journalists throughout US history, from Thomas Paine to Carl Bernstein. American Journalism tried to conduct additional interviews with Lee, whose office did not respond, and Kiley, whose office responded after deadline. Graham was added as a sponsor after deadline.
In this interview with American Journalism associate editor Nicholas Hirshon, LaFontaine contends that journalists “play one of the most important historical roles in our society.” He conveys respect for the sportswriters who covered his NHL career and expresses interest in documenting his role in hockey history by donating memorabilia and writing his first book in a quarter century.
In this interview with American Journalism associate editor Nicholas Hirshon, Nader recalls meeting his “hero,” the muckraker Upton Sinclair, at the White House in 1967. He also castigates the New York Times for its “terrible, disgraceful” editorials during the 2000 presidential race, and offers a vision to support local journalism through a nonprofit model sustained by advertising, subscriptions, and charitable contributions.
In this interview with American Journalism associate editor Nicholas Hirshon, Guerrero candidly describes experiencing suicidal ideations after making a flub during her Monday Night Football debut. Guerrero also discusses drawing inspiration from interviewers such as Phil Donahue, Mike Wallace, and Barbara Walters, and she ponders her distinction as the only journalist to both appear on the cover of Playboy and win a National Press Club Award.
Joe Walsh represented Illinois’s Eighth Congressional District from 2011 to 2013, following a narrow victory in the Tea Party wave election of 2010 with a two-year stretch of inflammatory comments about President Barack Obama and radical Islam. A frequent guest on cable news channels, Walsh contended that his conservative positions spurred biased reporting and a false caricature that he was a loose cannon “smoking out of his nostrils,” while the Chicago Tribune investigated his legal problems, driving suspensions, and alleged unpaid child support. He lost reelection in 2012 in a district redrawn by the state’s Democrat-controlled legislature, and the next year he became a full-time media personality, launching a talk-radio show that gained national syndication and spawned a stint hosting a television program on the right-wing network Newsmax. Walsh supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election but apologized in 2019 for “helping to put an unfit con man in the White House” and challenged Trump in the 2020 Republican primary. Walsh currently hosts a podcast about political unity named White Flag with Joe Walsh.
In this interview with American Journalism associate editor Nicholas Hirshon, Scully recalls touring the Watergate complex as a high school student and running into Richard Nixon outside the men’s room at CSPAN two decades later. Scully also laments how traditional shoe-leather journalism has given way to rushed, polarized reporting and describes how he strives to offer a platform for investigative work on his satellite radio show.
In this interview with American Journalism associate editor Nicholas Hirshon, Dean describes meeting Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein for the first time in a Chinese restaurant. Dean also remarks on distortions in the film All the President’s Men that he believes border on criminality, and he expresses hope that more historians will analyze his own transcripts of Nixon’s Watergate tapes and study authoritarian personality traits to better understand Nixon and Trump.
In this interview with American Journalism associate editor Nicholas Hirshon, Seymour discusses her stints covering royal weddings for Good Morning America and Entertainment Tonight and landing high-profile interviews that elicited incredulity from Bryant Gumbel and Barbara Walters. Seymour also condemns the press for reporting outlandish rumors about her and makes a case for journalism historians to incorporate The Absolute Truth in their curricula.
In this interview with American Journalism associate editor Nicholas Hirshon, Chapin reflects on Nixon’s complex relationship with the press before and after Watergate and explains his belief that reporters exploited the alcoholism of the wife of Attorney General John Mitchell. He also voices emphatic opinions about the journalists whose work helped send him to prison and describes watching his involvement in Watergate play out on screen in All the President’s Men.
In this interview with American Journalism associate editor Nicholas Hirshon, Chung recalls a strange conversation she had with Nixon during Watergate. She also discusses the research that informed her high-profile interview in 2001 with scandal-scarred Congressman Gary Condit and expresses pride in the work of the Flathead Beacon, a weekly newspaper in Montana owned by her husband, talk show host Maury Povich.
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Dahal attended the United Nations General Assembly in September 2023 and granted the only interview of his trip to American Journalism associate editor Nicholas Hirshon. Speaking in his hotel room in Manhattan a day before he addressed the General Assembly and then embarked on a closely watched visit to China, Dahal outlined his priorities, such as addressing the ailing economy and effects of climate change in Nepal, and he voiced support for freedom of the press while warning against social media that disrupts “discipline and harmony.”
In separate conversations with American Journalism associate editor Nicholas Hirshon, Senator Wyden and Congressman Raskin described how their parents’ journalism inspired their roles as advocates for press freedom. Wyden also discussed his favorite journalism books and movies, while Raskin reflected on the roles of journalists throughout US history, from Thomas Paine to Carl Bernstein. American Journalism tried to conduct additional interviews with Lee, whose office did not respond, and Kiley, whose office responded after deadline. Graham was added as a sponsor after deadline.
In this interview with American Journalism associate editor Nicholas Hirshon, LaFontaine contends that journalists “play one of the most important historical roles in our society.” He conveys respect for the sportswriters who covered his NHL career and expresses interest in documenting his role in hockey history by donating memorabilia and writing his first book in a quarter century.
In this interview with American Journalism associate editor Nicholas Hirshon, Nader recalls meeting his “hero,” the muckraker Upton Sinclair, at the White House in 1967. He also castigates the New York Times for its “terrible, disgraceful” editorials during the 2000 presidential race, and offers a vision to support local journalism through a nonprofit model sustained by advertising, subscriptions, and charitable contributions.
In this interview with American Journalism associate editor Nicholas Hirshon, Guerrero candidly describes experiencing suicidal ideations after making a flub during her Monday Night Football debut. Guerrero also discusses drawing inspiration from interviewers such as Phil Donahue, Mike Wallace, and Barbara Walters, and she ponders her distinction as the only journalist to both appear on the cover of Playboy and win a National Press Club Award.
Joe Walsh represented Illinois’s Eighth Congressional District from 2011 to 2013, following a narrow victory in the Tea Party wave election of 2010 with a two-year stretch of inflammatory comments about President Barack Obama and radical Islam. A frequent guest on cable news channels, Walsh contended that his conservative positions spurred biased reporting and a false caricature that he was a loose cannon “smoking out of his nostrils,” while the Chicago Tribune investigated his legal problems, driving suspensions, and alleged unpaid child support. He lost reelection in 2012 in a district redrawn by the state’s Democrat-controlled legislature, and the next year he became a full-time media personality, launching a talk-radio show that gained national syndication and spawned a stint hosting a television program on the right-wing network Newsmax. Walsh supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election but apologized in 2019 for “helping to put an unfit con man in the White House” and challenged Trump in the 2020 Republican primary. Walsh currently hosts a podcast about political unity named White Flag with Joe Walsh.
In this interview with American Journalism associate editor Nicholas Hirshon, Scully recalls touring the Watergate complex as a high school student and running into Richard Nixon outside the men’s room at CSPAN two decades later. Scully also laments how traditional shoe-leather journalism has given way to rushed, polarized reporting and describes how he strives to offer a platform for investigative work on his satellite radio show.
In this interview with American Journalism associate editor Nicholas Hirshon, Dean describes meeting Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein for the first time in a Chinese restaurant. Dean also remarks on distortions in the film All the President’s Men that he believes border on criminality, and he expresses hope that more historians will analyze his own transcripts of Nixon’s Watergate tapes and study authoritarian personality traits to better understand Nixon and Trump.
In this interview with American Journalism associate editor Nicholas Hirshon, Seymour discusses her stints covering royal weddings for Good Morning America and Entertainment Tonight and landing high-profile interviews that elicited incredulity from Bryant Gumbel and Barbara Walters. Seymour also condemns the press for reporting outlandish rumors about her and makes a case for journalism historians to incorporate The Absolute Truth in their curricula.
In this interview with American Journalism associate editor Nicholas Hirshon, Chapin reflects on Nixon’s complex relationship with the press before and after Watergate and explains his belief that reporters exploited the alcoholism of the wife of Attorney General John Mitchell. He also voices emphatic opinions about the journalists whose work helped send him to prison and describes watching his involvement in Watergate play out on screen in All the President’s Men.
In this interview with American Journalism associate editor Nicholas Hirshon, Chung recalls a strange conversation she had with Nixon during Watergate. She also discusses the research that informed her high-profile interview in 2001 with scandal-scarred Congressman Gary Condit and expresses pride in the work of the Flathead Beacon, a weekly newspaper in Montana owned by her husband, talk show host Maury Povich.
Eighteen years later, the feud between the Daily News and the Post lives on, although its intensity has waned amid diminishing staffs and resources. And I still believe that no news outlet should base its identity on being the archnemesis of another or wish for its counterpart’s demise.
Sadly, the years since Cooke’s remark have seen the number of cities with more than one newspaper dwindle. The Cincinnati Post shuttered in 2007, yielding to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Soon after, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer went entirely digital and ceded the newsstand to the Seattle Times. And, as described at the outset of Ken J. Ward’s Last Paper Standing, the Rocky Mountain News closed in 2009, ending more than a century of colorful competition with the Denver Post.