User:JamBatt

James Battaglia(b. October 7, 1988) is currently a graduate student in the Goldring Arts Journalism Program at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. He is the bassist in the Rochester band, PowerStrip.

Life and Career
James Battaglia was born and raised in Rochester, New York. He graduated from Bishop Kearney High School in 2006. He majored in Journalism and minored in Film Studies at The College at Brockport, where he was a member of the school's comedy improv troupe, Barrel of Monkeys.

During the Spring of 2009, Battaglia interned with The Gannett Company through the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. While there, he acted as film critic for the company's ill-fated Upstate New York college news website, RocLoop. He reviewed films for Blogcritics through late 2009 before writing his college honors thesis, Film Criticism through History and Into the Digital Age, in his final undergraduate semester. He is currently studying Arts Journalism with focus on film as a graduate student at Syracuse University.