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11/25/2014
Newspaper veteran Ray Marcano teaching digital media to Wright State students
From The Englewood Independent
Growing up in the James Monroe housing project in the Bronx was no picnic. A steady diet of shootings, stabbings and drug-fueled crime was part of that New York City world.
But Ray Marcano learned how to survive on the street. And he did it while cooking and caring for his three younger siblings in a fatherless home.
And he also did it while clawing for a career in journalism, a career that would bullet him into the upper reaches of the profession — former national president of the Society of Professional Journalists, a two-time Pulitzer juror and a Fulbright Fellow.
Today, the longtime and now retired reporter/editor/manager at the Dayton Daily News is an instructor in Wright State’s College of Liberal Arts. And he is using his experience to open the world of digital media to students and help them develop the skills to write, edit and publish stories online.
“When you introduce students to concepts they had no idea existed and then you see them do something they didn’t think they could do and that bulb goes off?” Marcano said. “I get a kick out of that.”
