Year One Faculty, Pat Longstaff

Pat Longstaff
Newhouse School, Syracuse University
Telephone: (315) 443-3854
Email: phlongst@syr.edu

Longstaff is an educator and analyst specializing in the business and public policy issues affecting the communications industry in the US and internationally. Her teaching assignments at Newhouse include classes on current trends in the communications industry, global communication issues and communications law/policy. She is also a Research Associate at Harvard University's Center for Information Policy Research where she works on issues of global communications policy. Her most recent work there involves the role of communications in the resilience of local populations who suffer a "surprise" such as a terrorist attack or natural disaster. She is also a member of the US State Department Advisory Committee on International Communications Policy, and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Telecommunications Society.

In addition to a law degree and a master's degree in mass communication form the University of Iowa, she received a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard in 1994. She practiced communication and corporate law for 18 years, representing newspapers, broadcasters, advertising agencies, and telephone companies. Her most recent book, The Communications Toolkit: How to Build or Regulate Any Communications Business, was published by MIT Press in 2002.

Expertise:
Communications Management
Communications Policy (US and Global)
Entertainment Law
Global Communication
Public Policy for New Communication Technologies