As part of the annual holiday party, the Deadline Club confirmed its 2025 Board of Governors, headlined by the election of Nick Hirshon as President. A staunch supporter of student journalists, Hirshon is an associate professor of communications at William Paterson University. There, he serves as advisor for the university’s SPJ student chapter, named national campus chapter of the year in 2020 and 2023. Hirshon himself earned recognition as national campus chapter advisor of the year in 2019 and 2021, the only two-time recipient of the honor.
Hirshon was formerly a reporter for the New York Daily News, and he holds a master’s degree from the Columbia Journalism School and a Ph.D. from Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. He also taught at the City University of New York, St. John’s University, and the Columbia Journalism School. He spent the past year as the club’s vice president of student affairs.
