Long-time New England Cable News (NECN) anchor R.D. Sahl will join the journalism department at Boston University beginning in January 2011. Sahl, who brings to BU 40 years of broadcast journalism experience, will remain at NECN as a special contributor. “It’s been my privilege to be part of NECN for more than 13 years. This… Read More
In this second part of a COMtalk series about how media can stay profitable online, we ask the crucial question of some old-line, forward-thinking print journalists. By Corinne Steinbrenner Media experts predict the future of newspapers won’t include paper at all. The future of newspapers (or, more accurately, of news organizations that have historically distributed… Read More
Professor Lou Ureneck was a panelist in September at the annual meeting of the International Press Institute in Vienna. He discussed the role of the blogger as journalist and described his experience as a blogger for The New York Times, where he produced a multimedia blog about a cabin he built in Maine. From Ureneck’s… Read More
Isabel Wilkerson’s first book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (Random House) traces the lives of Ida Mae Gladney, George Starling and Robert Foster from their difficult beginnings in the South, to their critical decisions to leave behind all they know and look for a better life in Chicago,… Read More
(Boston) – Boston University today announced that it has named Donald K. Wright the Harold Burson Professor in Public Relations and Chair, Department of Mass Communication, Advertising, and Public Relations. The appointment, effective for five years beginning September 1, 2010, was announced by Tom Fiedler, Dean of BU’s College of Communication (COM), who called Wright… Read More