#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
It’s what the chattering classes have been chattering about since election day—the wave of fake news that rolled through America’s political discourse in the 2016 presidential campaign via social media, swamping voters with false reports ranging from the pope endorsing Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton helping run a child sex ring at a Washington pizzeria…. Read More
Journalist Sonia Nazario never used to get involved in her stories. She saw her role as that of an observer, presenting impartial narratives to readers without intervening in her subjects’ lives. She wrote about schoolchildren so hungry they passed out on the playground, and followed the children of addicts into crack dens, all the while maintaining the… Read More
Not many months ago I was among the millions of moviegoers transfixed and inspired by the work of a small team of journalists at The Boston Globe – the Spotlight Team – who in 2002 told the shocking story of pedophile priests whose vile acts were routinely protected by the Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchy. The… Read More
Bernard S. Redmont, former professor of journalism and Dean Emeritus at COM, died January 23, 2017, at the age of 98. After a distinguished four-decade career as a foreign correspondent in Europe, South America and the United States, Redmont arrived at COM in early 1982. He became dean in 1983 and and served until… Read More
An award-winning journalist has joined Boston University’s Board of Trustees and the leader of a public policy research organization has been named to the Board of Overseers. Kevin Merida (COM’79), a senior vice president of the multinational sports entertainment company ESPN and editor in chief of The Undefeated, an ESPN sports blog that explores the intersection… Read More
Crain NewsPro has honored Dean Tom Fiedler as one of their notable journalism educators. NewsPro has surveyed readers and other media professionals to nominate influential academicians for the list. NewsPro not only acknowledges Dean Fiedler’s legacy of 30 years at the Miami Herald but his positions as Visiting Murrow Lecturer and Fellow at the Shorenstein… Read More
It seemed a fun assignment: write Donald Trump’s inaugural address as he might write it. But for Hannah LeBlanc (COM’18), it “was one of the most challenging assignments this semester.” For too many of her 21 years, she’d watched her mother endure cruel taunts because of a disabling bone condition. Now LeBlanc had to write… Read More
COM alum Sopan Deb (COM ’10) joins The New York Times culture desk as a general news reporter. Deb gained his notoriety after his coverage of Donald Trump led him to be arrested at a Chicago rally. Not only did Deb report on Republican candidate Donald Trump, he used his Twitter feed to provide fact-checks… Read More
In our series “Jump-start Your Job Search,” BU Today brings you short interviews with BU alums who are leaders in their fields, such as banking, advertising, tech start-ups, journalism, or nonprofit organizations. They talk about how they got to be where they are and what they’ve learned from their mistakes. They tell us what they look… Read More