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COM Alum Joins The New York Times
Photo: @sopandeb COM alum Sopan Deb (COM ’10) joins The New York Times culture desk as a general news reporter. Deb gained his notoriety after his coverage of Donald Trump led him to be arrested at a...
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VIDEO: Dean Fiedler Talks “Fake News” on WGBH News
© 2010 Boston University Photography COM Dean Tom Fiedler appears on WGBH’s Beat the Press with Emily Rooney, Dan Kennedy, Callie Crossley and Jonanna Weiss to share his insight about the surgent rise...
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COM Covers the Inauguration
BU News Service editors Rob Carter and Sarah Toy are coordinating student coverage of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi Most of the nation will watch Donald Trump’s...
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COM Students Write Donald Trump’s Inaugural Address
Workers ready the platform for Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington, D.C., today. As a class assignment, BU students crafted speeches for the incoming president. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky It...
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Dean Tom Fiedler Named Notable Journalism Educator
Crain NewsPro has honored Dean Tom Fiedler as one of their notable journalism educators. NewsPro has surveyed readers and other media professionals to nominate influential academicians for the list....
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COM Professor and Alum Create Graphic Novel about War’s Mental Scars
Jan Egleson, a COM professor of film and television (left), and Brian Johnson (COM’05) have written a graphic novel out about a returning Iraq War vet suffering from PTSD. As far back as Jan Egleson...
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Kevin Merida (COM ’79) Join’s BU Board of Trustees
Kevin Merida (COM’79) photo courtesy of ESPN. An award-winning journalist has joined Boston University’s Board of Trustees and the leader of a public policy research organization has been named to the...
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Honoring the Legacy of Dean Emeritus Bernard Redmont
Boston University Bernard S. Redmont, former professor of journalism and Dean Emeritus at COM, died January 23, 2017, at the age of 98. After a distinguished four-decade career as a foreign...
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Power of Narrative Conference: Telling True Stories in Turbulent Times
Wesley Lowery, Opening Keynote, Photo by: Mike DeSocio (COM ’17) Journalist Sonia Nazario never used to get involved in her stories. She saw her role as that of an observer, presenting impartial...
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Can You Tell Real News from Fake News, Propaganda, Lies?
A two-day conference later this month is part of a Media Literacy Initiative the College of Communication is spearheading. Courtesy of College of Communication More than one media outlet in China fell...
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The Search for Truth in the Age of Social Media
As principal investigators on a yearlong Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar grant, Juliet Floyd, a CAS professor of philosophy, and James E. Katz, a COM professor of emerging media, will bring together...
View ArticleJournalism and the Search for Truth in the Age of Social Media
Hosted by the College of Communication’s Divison of Emerging Media, the conference, “Journalism and the Search for Truth in the Age of Social Media“, took place on April 24-25, 2017, at Boston...
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COM Faculty Analyze How Fake News Influences Real News
Michelle Amazeen, assistant professor of mass communication, advertising, and public relations and Lei Guo, assistant professor of emerging media studies “Faculty and students have been agonizing...
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COM’s Data Storytelling Workshop is For Everyone
Photo by ermingut/iStock Data points are everywhere. Swipe a credit card, buy something online, or upload a pet video to Facebook, you leave a data point. Just about everything that a corporation or...
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Real-Life Wrongful Conviction Inspires Dick Lehr’s YA Novel
COM’s Dick Lehr, a former Boston Globe reporter and best-selling author of books about real-life criminal enterprises, murderous teens, and criminal cops, has written a young adult novel based on a...
View Article‘This Isn’t Just a Black Story. This Is an American Story.’
Carlos Javier Ortiz, director, cinematographer, and documentary photographer, recently spoke with Boston University School of Public Health (SPH) students and Pulitzer fellows Lauryn Claassen and...
View ArticleGun Violence: Stories Behind the Numbers
#Enough. After the Orlando night club massacre of 49 people in June 2016, Boston University School of Public Health created the Enough campaign to express outrage and sorrow and extend a call to...
View ArticleFive Things To Know About the New WTBU
WTBU Radio broadcast live from its new studio at 11 a.m., October 4, 2017, some 18 months after a fire destroyed the former studio in March 2016. This event marked a new chapter in the station’s rich...
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Roxane Gay Speaks at The 2018 Power of Narrative Conference
Journalism students, veterans of the trade, and all those in between gathered at The Power of Narrative’s 20th annual conference this March to acquire new industry skills, network, and take...
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