Catherine Loper

Loper is an assistant teaching professor in the broadcast and digital journalism department. She teaches classes in cross-media news writing, journalism business and ethics, and broadcast and digital journalism. 

Prior to joining Syracuse University, Loper was a visiting assistant professor at SUNY Oswego since 2017. There, she taught courses in broadcast journalism, political reporting and media literacy. Loper was previously an adjunct instructor at the Newhouse School, where she co-taught broadcast journalism and political reporting to graduate and undergraduate students.  

Loper focuses on experiential learning for journalism students and has presented to other educators at the New York State Journalism Association and the Eastern Communications Association.   

Loper has local and national journalism experience. She was the news director at NPR affiliate WRVO from 2012 to 2017. From 2003 to 2011, Loper worked at Fox News, first as a producer and later as director of White House coverage and director of news in the Washington Bureau.  

Professor Loper won SUNY Oswego’s Best Advisor award in 2023 for her leadership of the student newspaper, “The Oswegonian.” She received a professor recognition award from the SUNY Oswego Resident Hall Association in 2019.  

Loper earned an M.A. from the University of Illinois at Springfield in 1992 and a B.A. from the University of Southern California in 1990.