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Tara Sullivan, an award winning sports columnist for The Record joins Tom Franklin to discuss an upcoming panel about "Women in Media" at the Yogi Berra Museum this Thursday. Sullivan will join legendary columnist Claire Smith and our very own Kelly Whiteside in this discussion.

Tara Sullivan has been covering sports in New York for over 20-years. She is a lifelong New Jersey native, a Rutgers grad, and has covered every sporting event from the super bowl to HS sports.

Engineer: Daniel Giacumbo

Producer: Mike Stringham

Social: Sammie Williams & Nick Carras

Executive Producer: Anabella Poland

Mike Kelly, a longtime columnist for The Bergen Record newspaper, now part of the USA Today network joins us on this episode of Media Download to talk about his interview with President Trump's senior counselor, KellyAnne Conway. His interview made national headlines earlier this week after Conway alleged that surveillance of the Trump campaign went beyond wiretapping…saying “surveillance” may be even broader than President Trump suggested. During the interview Conway went on to say that the monitoring could be done with microwaves that turn into cameras. That soundbite went viral and resulted on an instant social media backlash.

Host: Tom Franklin

Producer/ Engineer: Mike Stringham

Executive Producer: Anabella Poland

Photo: Courtesy of NorthJersey.com

Dr. Susan A. Cole, President of Montclair State University is featured on this episode of WMSC's series "Women Who Rock:" a program that highlights strong, brave women creating positive change in their respective fields.

Doctor Cole is a force of nature in higher education. In her close to 20 years at Montclair State, her vision has led to massive expansions of our campus, curriculum, dorms, parking and resulted in the University being ranked in several national rankings.

Under her wing, just this last year, Montclair State was named among the Top 100 Public Institutions on The Wall Street Journal, ranking the University's diverse learning environment 75th overall.

Montclair State also earned the Research Doctoral University Designation from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education in 2016.

"U.S. News & World Report" listed Montclair State among the Top 200 National Universities in the Country in their 2017 rankings, and Forbes' 2016 edition of America's Top Colleges listed Montclair State in its rankings too.

A magazine titled "Diverse: Issues in Higher Education" named Montclair State a "Top Degree Producer" in its ranking of institutions that confer the most degrees to minority students.

Montclair State also met the criteria set forth by the U.S. Department of Education to be considered a Hispanic serving institution, and was included in The Campus Pride Top 25 LGBTQ friendly colleges and universities list.

Host: Lataya Rothmiller

Producer: Juan Contla & Mike Stringham

Executive Producer: Anabella Poland

Merrill Brown joins this episode as our featured guest. After almost 5 years at the helm of Montclair State University's brand new School of Communication, he is leaving this position next month.

Brown is an educator, consultant, investor, veteran media executive and journalist.  Merrill has worked at The Saint Louis Dispatch, The Winston-Salem Sentinel, The Washington

Star and Washington Post … so it’s fair to say he is still very much a champion of print media. He calls print journalism and local journalism a key to a democracy. Prior to joining Montclair State, Merrill launched and was Editor-In- Chief of MSNBC’s website –

which he also founded -- and a founding member of the team that launched Court TV. He understands the fast-paced environment of today’s newsrooms and the need for multimedia journalists to join the ranks, a vision he brought to Montclair State.

Engineer: Kristie Keleshian

Producer: Avery Federico & Juan Contla

Executive Producer: Anabella Poland

Stuart Rohrer joins to discuss this year Oscars' race. His love of film and movies has drawn him to write a weekly movie roundup on his blog, poorstuart.com, and produce a crowd-sourced Academy Awards prediction contest. Rohrer is also executive producer and founder of SRmedia Digital Publishing, a company that helps editors, publishers and content owners create engaging digital products. Stu began his career at The Washington Post as an editor in their arts section of the paper. He then worked on the transition to digital publishing at The Washington Post, The New York Times, AOL, and News Corporation.

Engineer: Mike Stringham

Producer: Corey Sullivan

Social Strategy: Mike Stringham

Executive Producer: Anabella Poland

Dr. Rob Quicke, Founder of The College Radio Foundation and College Radio Day joins us to talk about the importance of college radio and tackle a question we hear often, Is college radio dying? This is the basis of an article on Pitchfork magazine last week, where the author asked“Does College Radio Even Matter Anymore”?

Engineer: Daniel Giacumbo

Producer: Katie Leonard & Mike Stringham

Social Strategy; Mike Stringham

Executive Producer: Anabella Poland

David Brancaccio, host and senior editor of the Marketplace Morning Report broadcast on public radio and at marketplace.org joins Merrill Brown to discuss business and media in a Trump presidency. You may also know David as the former anchor of the television news program “Now on PBS.” He does a podcast titled Esquire Classic with Esquire Magazine where he explores the most memorable non-fiction pieces in the magazine’s archive. In over forty years of broadcasting, David has traveled the world covering stories and his work has earned him the highest honors in broadcast journalism including a Peabody, an Emmy, the Columbia-duPont and the Walter Cronkite awards.

Engineer: Samantha Williams

Producer: Nicholas Carras

Social Media: Thomas Formoso

Executive Producer: Anabella Poland

Andrea Syrtash, relationship expert discusses a subject often left out of the conversation in the media—fertility. And in the current political climate, when women's health and Planned Parenthood have become popular topics of discussion; she filled a void in the industry by creating a new website she named Pregnantish. This is the first online magazine dedicated to helping women and men navigate infertility and fertility treatments. Andrea knows the topics as for years dealing with her personal fertility issues has been an important part of her day to day life. Syrtash has been featured on national television programs like Good Morning America and The Today Show and in magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Women’s Health. Andrea has also written 5 books including He’s Just Not Your Type (and That’s a Good Thing) and How to Cheat on Your Husband (with Your Husband).

Engineer: Avery Federico

Producers: Jackson Rezen & Mike Stringham

Social Media: Kristie Keleshian & Mike Stringham

Executive Producer: Anabella Poland

Santa Claus joins Merrill Brown on this holiday edition of Media Download.

Producer: Juan Contla

Executive Producer & Social: Anabella Poland

Music courtesy of Tom Tuminello - Santa & The Toymakers.

Nicole Home and Jenna Inganamort, Austin Reznick and Samuel Flesher, undergraduate students at Montclair State University's School of Communication and Media join Merrill Brown to discuss the state of media 2016.

Engineer: Shawn Latham

Producer: James Coffey

Social Media: Brandon Simanski

Executive Producer: Anabella Poland