Samantha Gross (’18) hit the ground running when she arrived at 640 Commonwealth Avenue — and she’s still going… and going. The Indiana native was looking for a hands-on educational experience when she chose the Boston University College of Communication (COM). She got all she could handle — and more — just as a freshman…. Read More
Last week, the real-life reporters portrayed by A-list talent in the new film Spotlight celebrated how well the film stuck to the facts about the Boston Globe Spotlight team’s investigation of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston’s decades long cover-up of pedophile priests. The film opens today nationwide. The Pulitzer Prize–winning reporters—Sacha Pfeiffer (MET’94, SED’12),… Read More
For his final project, journalism graduate student John Hilliard (’15) achieved a feat many journalists strive for their entire careers—getting his story published on the front page of the Boston Globe. The story was part of a semester-long project for the College of Communication’s Data Storytelling course, taught by COM Professor Maggie Mulvihill. The course… Read More
COM professors sought for commentary recently include: Judith Austin Associate Professor, Communication Boston Business Journal, Hill Holliday gears up to pitch BofA (1/20/12) Fred Bayles Associate Professor, Journalism International Business Times, Romney’s Health Care Views Different From Obama, Republicans Say: Poll (1/26/12) Tobe Berkovitz Associate Professor, Advertising The Hill, Confident Obama struts his stuff (1/26/12)… Read More
BU students will cover neighborhood and town news for Boston.com’s “Your Town” hyper-local websites as part of their studies within the College of Communications in a new agreement announced between The Boston Globe and Boston University. The new program will launch later this fall and will be coordinated by BU professors and the Globe’s editors…. Read More
Journalism Professor Ellen Ruppel Shell wrote an op-ed published in the Boston Globe on April 8 called "Fatal magnetism of the city." Shell explains how the destruction of Haiti in this year’s earthquake was magnified by overcrowding in Port-au-Prince: Pledges dribbling in from the United States and Europe were horrifyingly low, adding up to a… Read More
Professor of Journalism, Ellen Ruppel Shell, in an opinion piece for the Jan. 22 edition of The Boston Globe, reminds readers that the same America that is generously donating tens of millions of dollars to Haiti in earthquake relief is also exploiting cheap Haitian labor. The column is excerpted below. In Haiti, another disaster needs… Read More