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University Professor Honored at Media Industry Conference Alexis Gaskin Dr. Anthony Palomba is a newly-tenured assistant professor at St. John’s University, having clinched that tenure spot this past fall after two years of teaching at the college-level. Before St. John’s, Palomba taught as an assistant professor of Communications Studies at the City University of New York. Recently, Palomba was given the honor of being a recognized as a faculty fellow at the 2019 National Association for Television Programming Executives in Miami, Fla. As a faculty fellow, Palomba attended the prestigious conference this past January, where he was able to meet and network with executives and professionals from Nielsen, NBC Universal, TBS, A&E, CBS and many more. Palomba is excited to be able to attend these industry conferences because it helps him bring things back to the classroom. “If I can do a research project for my video gaming class, for example,” Palomba said, “then we can create that content and get feedback and actually work with these companies.” During the conference, Palomba de-
scribed how he spoke with creatives and industry workers extending his experience in research and media analytics. He keeps his classes interesting by implementing subject matter that is engaging and meaningful. “I’ve taken him twice now and each time is more enjoyable,” said Naomi Arnot, a third year communications major. “Even when he teaches something that may be intensive he makes it easy to understand.” Palomba teaches courses surrounding mass communications, media management and research falling under the College of Professional Studies (CPS). Under CPS, Palomba teaches Intro to Mass Communications, Multimedia Communications, Seminar Communications and a class on video games. Next spring Palomba will be teaching a course on media analytics. “I’m very excited to be teaching this class in the spring on media analytics,” he said. “It’s going to be focused on lectures and real life application.” With a Ph.D from the University of Florida, Palomba is a Doctor of Philosophy in Mass Communications — specifically entertainment marketing. He has had several research papers published surrounding his work in the media and entertainment
PHOTO COURTESY/ANTHONY PALOMBA industry, the most recent being his study entitled, “First-Party Success or First-Party Failure? A Case Study on Audience Perceptions of the Nintendo Brand During the Wii U’s Product Life Cycle.” His study focused on brand loyalty and more extensive research on video games and its consumers. On two different grants, Palomba is currently working on studies that focus on streaming devices such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime, Dr. Anthony Palomba hopes to inspire students through classas well as a series of room engagement and meaningful subject matter. studies on movie marketing. to-day, Palomba advises his students to not Constantly connecting his expereinces focus on a single career. back to St. John’s, he shares them with “The best advice I can give,” Palomba hopes that his students can learn from him. said, “is don’t envision the career you want, Urging his students to focus on the daythink about what you want to do everyday.”
Update on Nine St. John’s Fraternity Brothers’ Arrests Isabella Bruni The nine St. John’s students who were arrested in the fall stemming from an off-campus fraternity home invasion and theft incident have either had their records cleared or are in the process of doing so, a spokeswoman for Queens district attorney’s office said. Three of them no longer appear in the New York State Unified Court System online database, meaning their records have been expunged. The spokeswoman said information regarding the defendants Derek Chiesa, Brandon Wong and Matthew Cerniglia “is no longer public record.” The remaining six defendants — Nicholas Crocco, Anthony Vithayathil, Sebastian Williams, Jefferson Espinal, Patrick Brown and Paul Holze — are going through a legal process called an adjourn-
ment in contemplation of dismissal following their burglary charges. An ACD is a deal that will lead to their charges being dropped as long as they remain out of legal trouble for a set period of time. Some of them return to court March 15 and some others June 6. The arrests occurred following what New York City Police said in the fall was a Sept. 26 off-campus home invasion incident that occurred at the unofficial fraternity house for the now terminated Kappa Sigma. All but one of the nine students who were arrested have ties to the also terminated Tau Kappa Epsilon. More information on the remaining defendants’ cases can be found through the New York State Unified Court System online database.
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