For the last 506 days, Washington Post Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian has been imprisoned in an Iranian jail, held on vague charges that include espionage. His employer, his family, and the international journalism community have condemned his imprisonment, contending that the charges are fabricated and his continued detention violates international law. He has now… Read More
Legendary journalist and author Gay Talese will headline the 2016 Power of Narrative Conference on April 1-3 at Boston University, conference organizers announced today. The gathering of narrative storytellers, with more than 500 attendees expected from around the world, will be among the most ambitious Power of Narrative events since the annual conference was founded… Read More
BU’s College of Communication visual journalism students shoot b-roll in Boston’s Chinatown, the only historically surviving Chinese area in New England. Visual journalism Professor Peter Smith has served as an instructor for a variety of courses from basic digital photography to advanced concepts in professional development and multimedia. Smith is a veteran photojournalist who has… Read More
Kevin Merida (COM ’79) is stepping down from the managing editor position at The Washington Post to become the senior vice president at ESPN and editor-in-chief of The Undefeated, a website that will explore the intersection of sports, race and culture. “He sees journalistic possibilities when the rest of us are blind to them,” wrote… Read More
The BU Alumni Education office sponsored a talk Tuesday, October 13 by COM Professor Lou Ureneck about the destruction of the city of Smyrna in 1922 and the first genocide of the 20th Century. Relating the story that he tells in his book, The Great Fire, Ureneck explained how a 10-year religious cleansing in Asia… Read More
One of the nation’s best undergraduate journalism programs is right here on the Charles River Campus. The College of Communication’s program captured the fourth spot in recent rankings by USA Today. In its list of the top 10 programs in the country, BU came in behind only Emerson College, Northwestern University, and the University of… Read More
Journalism Graduate student Rebecca Sananes has been selected to be a Pulitzer Center Fellow. Rebecca will travel to Cuba in the next few months to report on HIV-AIDS. In addition, Rebecca will go to South Africa next summer for the International AIDS conference. The Pulitzer Fellowships are a centerpiece of BU’s Program on Crisis Response… Read More
COM professor will promote storytelling in new post Best-selling author and journalist Mitchell Zuckoff has made a living writing page-turning books based on real-life events like harrowing plane crashes and a minute-by-minute account of the 2012 Islamic militant attack on the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Critics have pointed to the former Boston Globe writer… Read More
David Carr, Andrew R. Lack professor and New York Times business columnist and culture reporter, collapsed in the newsroom of the New York Times about 9 p.m. Feb. 12, and was taken to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He was 58. Since he arrived at the New York Times in 2001, Carr… Read More