Linda Polach (COM ’78), WGBH News’ award-winning Executive Managing Editor, was recently honored with the Silver Circle Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) Boston/New England Chapter. The NATAS Silver Circle Awards recognizes veteran television professionals who have made significant contributions to their field for 25 years or longer. After beginning… Read More
Tucked away in a small cinder block room behind a pair of narrow metal doors underneath the Case Gym bleachers, a dozen crew members are furiously finishing preparations for a live broadcast of a Terrier men’s basketball game. The camera operators, audio engineers, and producers, BU students all, take their cues from director Caroline Rickert… Read More
In BU Today’s “Jump-start Your Job Search” series, BU alums are featured with short interviews describing their leadership in their field. Topics range from banking, advertising, tech start-ups, journalism, and nonprofit organizations. Alums talk about how they got to be where they are, mistakes they’ve made, and what they’ve taken away from those mistakes. They tell us what they… Read More
Sadiah Thompson (COM ’18) is a current COM student studying journalism. Read about how she found her place in COM and has branched out into various journalistic mediums. What made you decide to major in journalism? I became interested in journalism in middle school. I was fascinated with magazines. When I came to COM I was… Read More
Andrea Asuaje (COM’17) was in the crowd at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia Monday evening, the first night of the Democratic National Convention, reporting for the Boston University News Service as protesters, many of them Bernie Sanders supporters, loudly booed speakers like Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. When First Lady Michelle Obama came to the… Read More
WTBU was the first radio station to hire host Howard Stern, and last month, Stern (CGS’74, COM’76) reciprocated by welcoming the station’s current e-board to his New York City studios for a visit. The group met the host of the eponymousHoward Stern Show and toured his studios and the entire SiriusXM complex, looking for ideas about how… Read More
College Factual analyzed colleges across the country and found the 10 best schools from which to receive your bachelor’s in journalism. COM made the top five. According to USA TODAY, “BU allows students to specialize within the journalism major, offering focus areas in broadcast journalism, magazine journalism, online journalism and straight journalism. The University also… Read More
Compared to their peers across the world, American sports journalists have always enjoyed privileged—often guaranteed—access to the athletes they cover. The locker room interview, where players chat with reporters before or after stripping for the showers, is a peculiarly American phenomenon. Once upon a time, journalists even had an official role on the baseball field:… Read More
Document absence: This was Pankaj Khadka’s (’16) challenge as a photojournalist in Nepal in summer 2015. He was in his home country to report on the impact of mass migration of male teens and adults from their villages for employment. Since the 1990s — a decade that saw an end to Nepal’s monarchy and its… Read More
Rachel McLean (’18), who first entertained the thought of running her first 26.2-mile race as a junior in high school, has truly found a new calling. The journalism and mass communication double major recently completed the 39th Annual Tufts Health Plan 10K for Women and a half marathon in Newton, and she has been enrolled… Read More