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Syracuse to honor NYT’s David Carr

Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will honor late New York Times columnist David Carr with the i-3 award for impact, innovation and influence at the annual Mirror Awards ceremony June 11 in New York City.

For 25 years until his death earlier this year, Carr wrote about media as it intersects with business, culture and government.

He wrote a column for the Monday business section of The New York Times that focused on media issues, including print, digital, film, radio and television. He also covered popular culture for the paper’s culture section. From 2005 to 2009, he covered the Hollywood awards season with a daily blog called “The Carpetbagger” and weekly videos that put a New York spin on the red carpet.

Carr was also part of “Sweet Spot,” a series of videos on media and culture, with Times film critic A.O. Scott. He joined The Times in 2002.

Previously, Carr was a contributing writer for The Atlantic Monthly and New York magazine. In 2000, he was the media writer for Inside.com, a news website focusing on the business of entertainment and publishing.

Carr worked as editor of the Washington City Paper, an alternative weekly in Washington, D.C., and edited the Twin Cities Reader, a Minneapolis-based alternative weekly, for which he also wrote a media column.

He was the author of “The Night of the Gun,” a memoir of addiction and recovery that used reporting to fact-check his past. In 2014 he became the Lack Professor in Boston University’s communications department, where he taught courses on new media business models and changing patterns of consumption.

For his Media Equation column, he received a 2009 “Best in Business” award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. He won Mirror Awards for best commentary in 2007 and 2009.

Carr died of complications from lung cancer on Feb. 12, 2015.

The i-3 award is given to individuals or organizations that have made a profound impact on the media landscape or have captured the public’s imagination about the potential or importance of the media in a unique way. Past recipients include Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, co-founders of Re/code.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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