Three Boston University graduate students have been selected by BU and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting for international health reporting this summer as part of the center’s growing Campus Consortium Partnership of 16 institutions of higher education. Kate Petcosky-Kulkarni (SHA ’08, SPH ’17), Nikita Sampath (COM ’16) and Caitlin Bawn (COM ’16) will spend… 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