Harrington School director Adam Roth, URI President David M. Dooley, Christiane Amanpour, Jean Harrington, and Richard Harrington ’73, Hon. ’02 celebrate the official opening of the Broadcast Center.
In early September, the Harrington School of Communication and Media announced a $4 million gift commitment from Richard J. Harrington ’73, Hon. ’02, and Jean Harrington, for further renovations to Ranger Hall, the Harrington School’s home. Later in the month, CNN chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour ’83, Hon. ’95, delivered a lecture, “Truthful, Not Neutral,” to a packed house in Edwards Hall.
The next morning, Amanpour and the Harringtons helped unveil a new, state-of-the art, $1.25 million Broadcast Center, housed in Chafee Social Science Center, which gives students opportunities to use equipment they’ll encounter in a professional broadcast facility. The center “is the only academic facility of its kind and magnitude in the state,” said Adam Roth, director of the Harrington School and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Our job as journalists is not to be liked and not to take the easy route. Our job is actually to do the really hard things because we've been given this extraordinary responsibility, this extraordinary platform.Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour ’83, Hon. ’95 delivered a lecture, “Truthful, Not Neutral,” to a capacity crowd this fall.
Students at work in the Harrington School’s new, state-of-the art Broadcast Center