Jelani Cobb, author and New Yorker staff writer will deliver the keynote address at the Power of Narrative Conference at Boston University March 20-22, 2020. Cobb writes frequently about race, politics, history, and culture. His most recent book is The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress. Boston University’s Sumner M. Redstone… Read More
On the eve of the 2016 election, Sarah Silbiger was stuck in a corner of the media area at a Donald Trump rally in Manchester, N.H. Blinded by a laser-light show, deafened by blaring music, and gagging from a nearby smoke machine, the aspiring photojournalist came to a decision. “I remember feeling so miserable and… Read More
When Michael Cohen, President Trump’s so-called fixer, testified before the U.S. House Oversight Committee in February, members of Congress sparred over exactly what funding from foreign governments witnesses are required to disclose, based on a “Truth in Testimony” rule it enacted four years ago. A new investigation by Boston University data journalism students published today… Read More
Antonia DeBianchi (’20) grew up watching the Today Show — and this summer she landed the internship of a lifetime at Studio 1A. The incoming senior learned the ins and outs of pitching stories, planning shows and producing live segments. As a journalism student and previous intern at news organizations such as Boston Magazine and WGBH,… Read More
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Monday won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of the shooting deaths of 11 people and the wounding of seven others Oct. 27 at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill. More info.
BUTV10 won three awards and an honorable mention in the 2019 The Boston / New England National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) Student Awards for Excellence. “Midterm Mandate”, the College of Communication’s most ambitious election coverage to date took first prize in the Newscast category. The Live Event award went to BUTV10’s coverage… Read More
Sarah Kess was a student at an all-girls high school in Ohio when the two planes flew into the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001. “Most of the girls were crying and trying to call home, and I just instinctively took a notebook out and was going up to people asking them where… Read More
“I’m so excited by this story—so excited,” Em Schulz says at the beginning of episode 86 of And That’s Why We Drink, a podcast focused on true crime and paranormal stories. “I’ve never done so much research,” Schulz says before launching into an hour-long rendition of the story of Harold the haunted doll, a possessed toy… Read More
When Ermolande Jean-Simon walked into her first master’s degree class at COM, she had a thought familiar to many people of color entering the communications business: where are all the people who look like me? “I was the only black person,” she says. Although COM does well by some diversity measures—28 percent of all students… Read More
As he fought to gain purchase on the rain-greased log bridging a ravine, Mitchell Zuckoff tried not to think about the jagged rocks 15 feet below. He’d find out later that his guide for the trek through New Guinea’s isolated Shangri-La valley had a local pilot on standby in case they needed an emergency evacuation…. Read More