Syracuse, N.Y. — When Donald Newhouse made one of his many visits to Syracuse University, he wasn’t very interested in attending a fancy reception or speaking to a large audience.
What he enjoyed most, according to those who knew him, was chatting up students studying at his family’s namesake communications school.
Newhouse was focused on keeping the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications a “powerhouse for a media education,” the school’s former dean David Rubin said…