Tag: Multimedia Journalism
BU News Service wins two ONA Awards
The Boston University News Service was named the winner of two Online Journalism Awards at the 2013 Online News Association Conference. The student-run news service was nominated for the categories of Breaking News, small organization and for the student project category for its continuing coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings of April 15, 2012. See… Read More
Prof. Michelle Johnson named “Educator of the Year”
The National Association of Black Journalists is proud to announce the selection of Michelle Johnson as its 2013 Journalism Educator of the Year. The NABJ Board of Directors selected Johnson, an associate professor of practice in multimedia journalism at Boston University, to be recognized along with other top honorees this summer at NABJ’s 38th Annual… Read More
Where the Mo-Jos (Mobile Journalists) Live
Victoria Price, Brittany Devane, Marie Torto, Professor Susan Walker, Keesa McKoy, Matt Reed, and Justin Bourke at Getty Images center at London Olympics Press Center. Photo courtesy of Keesa McKoy. Ever wonder how 23,000 journalists are able to cover the Olympics, with its scattered venues, enormous crowds and transportation delays? Boston University students visited the… Read More
Prof. Michelle Johnson receives AOJ Fellowship
The Association of Opinion Journalists Foundation recently honored Prof. Michelle Johnson with the 2012 Barry Bingham Sr. Fellowship, recognizing Johnson for her work with diversity in journalism education. The Bingham Fellowship acknowledges a faculty member who has shown great initiative in mentoring college students and awards recipients for career-long contributions to students of color. Past… Read More
Dispatch from London: Olympics Countdown
“London is ready.” That’s the declaration from an East End native and Olympics guide as well as a member of the Olympics Development Authority. Week One of BU’s Covering the London Olympics program kicked off with students visiting the major venues, including a “stingray” aquatics center, the Olympics Village and stadium. Security personnel are everywhere,… Read More
COM 2012 Presidential Campaign Coverage
BU student-journalists covered Mitt Romney in his home state during Super Tuesday, alongside a scrum of national and international correspondents. They produced a live half-hour TV and Web Campaign 2012 special, that covered four GOP Presidential candidates and four of the 10 Super Tuesday states, vote counts and what it all meant on the road… Read More
Covering the Boston Marathon – Live
On your mark… get set… report! Spanning from the early morning start to the thrill of the finish line, multimedia journalism students in the Boston University News Service covered the Boston Marathon from all angles this year – live and in real time at the BUNS website. In advance of “Marathon Monday,” students wrote stories,… Read More
COM students will write for Globe in new partnership
BU students will cover neighborhood and town news for Boston.com’s “Your Town” hyper-local websites as part of their studies within the College of Communications in a new agreement announced between The Boston Globe and Boston University. The new program will launch later this fall and will be coordinated by BU professors and the Globe’s editors…. Read More