Lecturer Greg Marinovich leads a walkabout with his advanced photojournalism class, giving the students the opportunity to learn more about street photography from the Pulitzer Prize winner. The intensive course is designed to give students the skills necessary to produce professional quality work meeting publication standards, with emphasis on storytelling in the visual medium. Weekly… Read More
Monday was a good day for three COM alumni, who took each home the most celebrated award in journalism — the Pulitzer prize. Jessica Rinaldi (’01) of the Boston Globe won the feature photography prize for “The Life and Times of Strider Wolf,” a kindergartner born to poverty in rural Maine and nearly beaten to… 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
A taste of Boston University recently hit the big screen thanks to a COM professor and alumni. Journalism Professor Dick Lehr and Pulitzer Prize-winner Gerard O’Neill (COM ’70) are the authors behind the successful book Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil’s Deal. The book, which inspired the movie Black Mass, depicts the true… Read More
Photographer Stephanie Sinclair and journalist Cynthia Gorney reported on this issue for the June 2011 issue of National Geographic; Sinclair worked with the Pulitzer Center to create a multimedia presentation on the issue that synthesizes her work into a moving call to action. The Pulitzer Center commissioned additional reporting in Nepal on the consequences of… Read More
Isabel Wilkerson’s first book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (Random House) traces the lives of Ida Mae Gladney, George Starling and Robert Foster from their difficult beginnings in the South, to their critical decisions to leave behind all they know and look for a better life in Chicago,… Read More
Photographer Tyler Hicks (COM ’92) teamed with New York Times staffers to win a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for a series of articles on Pakistan and Afghanistan. Hicks is a staff photographer for the Times. Here is a audio slideshow Hicks produced on Kabul, Afghanistan. Here is another series of photos from Afghanistan.