Sylvan Solloway

Sylvan Solloway is a journalist with more than fifteen years experience writing and working in television news, video production and online journalism. She currently serves as the Career Services Director at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, where she received her BA in Journalism. She also holds an MA from NYU in Media, Culture and Communications, where she studied and wrote about issues surrounding gender, sexuality and the family. Her work was selected and presented at last year’s Media Sociology conference.

As a journalist, Sylvan produced, wrote and reported news at national and local TV stations across the country. Sylvan got her first on-air gig in Arkansas where she reported in English covering immigration issues and then launched and anchored the state’s first Spanish newscast. Her work won three AP awards and she was honored by the Arkansas Hispanic Women’s Organization for Balanced Reporting on the Hispanic Community. After working at NBC, CBS and Fox affiliates in the middle of the country, she came back to New York to do video production and then report, shoot and edit videos for NYPost.com. She produced a bilingual docudrama about HIV in older adults.

In her career, Sylvan has interviewed celebrities like Deepak Chopra, Patti LaBelle, John Legend, LL Cool J, Snoop, Thalia and Denzel Washington. Having covered the 2008 National Democratic Convention and local politics, Sylvan has also posed political questions to Bill Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Martin Luther King the Third and Chuck Schumer.

Now she draws on her experiences to serve NYU students and help them mold their careers as future journalists. Sylvan teaches TV and multimedia reporting, the internship course and provides individual career counseling sessions.