Andrea L. Taylor, former director, North America Citizenship & Public Affairs, Microsoft Corporation, is a civic leader focused on education, media and philanthropy as the president and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. A native Bostonian, she began her career as a reporter for The Boston Globe, was a producer and on-air host for… 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
Sweethearts fly off shelves only a few weeks a year, but with 2.5 billion hearts sold annually they are one Necco’s hottest candies. The company has worked to keep them current, in recent years, putting out a line of sour candies, launching a Twitter #tweethearts campaign, and, in 2009,partnering with the “Twilight” movie franchise on… 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
COM students Dan Rowinski and Leah Mennies recently wrote prominently-placed stories for January 12 edition of The Boston Globe. Rowinski, working through BU’s own New England Center for Investigative Reporting, wrote about police officers arresting citizens for electronically recording arrests-in-progress. The article was published on the front page of the Globe. Excerpt follows: Simon Glik,… Read More