Meet recent grad Ryan Huff (COM ’16)! Since graduating from the Emerging Media Studies Master’s program he’s landed a job at everyone’s favorite place, Twitter! We had the chance to ask Ryan what COM had to offer to help guide him to his success. Interested in his advice on going to graduate school and what… Read More
BU News Service, a product of the Journalism Department, traveled to New Hampshire Monday to cover the 2016 Presidential primary. The team of students published stories, videos and photo galleries from the event, offering live coverage to those back in Boston and beyond. They kept social media audiences in the loop with to-the-minute tweets, Facebook… Read More
Red Bull got a guy to jump out of a balloon 24 miles above the Earth, and millions streamed it on YouTube. Century 21 made a splash by listing fictional television drug kingpin Walter White’s house on Craigslist. And people all over the world dumped buckets of ice water on their heads to raise money… Read More
The following was reprinted from BU Today on Oct. 14, 2015 In the new series “Jump-start Your Job Search,” BU Today brings you short interviews with BU alums who are leaders in their field, such as banking, advertising, tech start-ups, journalism, or nonprofit organizations. They talk about how they got to be where they are,… Read More
By Kendall Salter (’13) Boston University’s College of Communication helped celebrate Mashable’s Social Media Day with its own event on Saturday, June 30. As part of the third annual international celebration, Boston was one of more than a dozen cities worldwide that helped commemorate the occasion. COM’s celebration featured two panels of guest speakers highlighting… Read More
Peter Shankman (CGS’92, COM’94), media entrepreneur and founder of Help a Reporter Out, a website that connects journalists and sources, sits down to talk about the role of social networking in our daily lives – and how it can lead to a job. For more on social networking, watch a panel led by Shankman speak… Read More