On the first day of her first “real-world” job at Rachael Ray Every Day, journalism alumna Grace Rasmus (’15) was handed the keys to the magazine’s official Instagram account. Before she knew it, she was styling and shooting food content, producing videos, and managing digital strategy, while still writing and editing across their online and print publications…. Read More
Journalism students, veterans of the trade, and all those in between gathered at The Power of Narrative’s 20th annual conference this March to acquire new industry skills, network, and take inspiration from some of the world’s most acclaimed storytellers. Attendees heard from the likes of Brian McGrory, Editor of The Boston Globe and Lydia Polgreen, Editor in… Read More
WTBU Radio broadcast live from its new studio at 11 a.m., October 4, 2017, some 18 months after a fire destroyed the former studio in March 2016. This event marked a new chapter in the station’s rich history. WTBU was among the first college radio stations in the country to start webcasting and has also… Read More
#Enough. After the Orlando night club massacre of 49 people in June 2016, Boston University School of Public Health created the Enough campaign to express outrage and sorrow and extend a call to action. This is just one of the many ways to retell the story of homicide, suicide, and injury caused by firearms. These… Read More
Carlos Javier Ortiz, director, cinematographer, and documentary photographer, recently spoke with Boston University School of Public Health (SPH) students and Pulitzer fellows Lauryn Claassen and Madeline Bishop as part of a joint project with the College of Communication highlighting gun violence in the United States. “We need to look at how the narrative is dictated,”… Read More
Dick Lehr’s fans know him as an award-winning investigative journalist who has penned best-selling books about real-life seedy criminal enterprises, murderous teens, and criminal cops. Lehr’s new book, out today, is a bold departure. Written for a young adult audience, Trell (Candlewick, 2017) is the fictional story of a 14-year-old who teams up with a… Read More
“Faculty and students have been agonizing recently about the emergence of fake news—false information packaged to deceive the public into thinking it was produced by professionals with respect for truth,” notes Thomas Fiedler (COM’71), dean of the College of Communication, in his spring 2017 COMtalk column. Another interested consumer of news—Barack Obama—described the new media… Read More
Hosted by the College of Communication’s Divison of Emerging Media, the conference, “Journalism and the Search for Truth in the Age of Social Media”, took place on April 24-25, 2017, at Boston University. Watch the conference’s videos below. Welcome and opening remarks: Dr. James E. Katz & Dean Thomas E. Fiedler, Boston University. Panel 1:… Read More
Data points are everywhere. Swipe a credit card, buy something online, or upload a pet video to Facebook, you leave a data point. Just about everything that a corporation or government does leaves a digital footprint as well. These days, a lot of people want to use that data to find an answer or make… Read More