Veteran NYTimes Editor to Speak
on 'Changing of Multimedia' April 18

(April 5, 2007) – Veteran journalist Neil Amdur of The New York Times will be a guest speaker at New College of Florida at noon, Wednesday, April 18, in Room 2, Hamilton Classroom Building (HCL 2).

Sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs at New College, Amdur's talk will be on "The Changing of Multimedia." It is free and open to the public.

Most recently serving as senior editor for recruiting at The New York Times and news liaison for its College Speaker Bureau, Amdur has worked in newspapers, television, magazines and book publishing.

He was NYTimes sports editor from 1990 through 2002, rejoining The Times where he had been a sports reporter for a total of 15 years, from 1968 to 1975 and again from 1976 to 1984. In between those reporting stints, he was a sports producer at CBS. He was a sportswriter for six years at The Miami Herald prior to his first stint at The Times.

For six years (1984-1990), Amdur was editor in chief at World Tennis magazine and editorial director for Family Media. He also collaborated on two tennis autobiographies: Chris Evert's Chrissie, published in 1980; and Arthur Ashe's Off The Court, published in 1982.

Amdur, who lives in New Jersey, is the author of several books including: The Fifth Down, published in 1971, and My Race Be Won, a collaborative autobiography with 1972 Olympic 400-meter champion, Vince Matthews, published in 1974.

Inducted into the Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame and the New Jersey Sports Writers Association Hall of Fame, Amdur also received the Florida Press Association award for outstanding writing in 1966 and the B'nai Brith Publishers Award in 1988.