COM professors sought for commentary recently include: Election 2012/Politics Tobe Berkovitz Associate Professor, Advertising Bloomberg, Michelle Obama Makes Personal Appeal in Convention Speech (9/5/12) The Hill, Biden to offer unique portrayal of Obama (9/3/12) The Hill, Dems arrive in Charlotte confident of Obama’s second-term chances (9/3/12) Bloomberg, Romney Heads to Louisiana on First Day as… 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
Have you ever watched a character on shows like Lost, Baywatch or The Office do CPR? In real life, the victims would die, says Meredith Sorensen, whose article “CPR: As Seen on TV” points out the flawed techniques the entertainment industry presents to the public as accurate portraits of modern medicine. Sorensen’s article in the… 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