In a TV newsroom, the clock keeps ticking: From the moment students pile into Susan Walker’s Wednesday morning television newsroom class between 8 and 9 a.m., the clock is ticking. Some are responsible for editing video clips, others will report and write news stories, a select few will appear on camera, but one thing they all share: come noon, they go live.
Broadcast Journalism
Meet Our Alumni
- Erica Hill, news anchor, CBS
- Sorboni Banerjee, reporter/anchor, WHDH-TV Boston
- Peter Overby, correspondent, National Public Radio
Broadcast journalism majors learn how to report stories using video, audio, graphics and fresh, accurate and compelling writing. Boston is a center for politics, medicine, urban issues and sports, providing a resource for reporting.
Assignments include news videos, radio reports, long-form news segments, Web and television documentaries. Story topics range from breaking news to investigative stories, political reports to sports news and arts features, headlines to enterprise stories as well as long-form documentaries or narrative NPR-style radio reports.
Campaign 2012: Continuing Coverage on the Web
BU TEAM TO COVER 2012 OLYMPICS: (Standing, L-R) Amy Gorel, Torre Price, Emily Zendt, Brittany Devane, Matt Reed, Justin Bourke, Ross Wang, Jake Kassen (staff). (Sitting- 2nd row, L-R) Kessa McCoy, Marie Torto, Prof. Susan Walker. (Sitting – front row, L-R) Casey Rabin, Megan Happ, Yanni Carter, Sandy Hooper, Carolyn Bick. Missing: Ashley Lisenby & Alexandra Orr. Photo by Scott Lovejoy.
Fifteen BU students will cover the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London as part of a unique professional partnership program offered by the College of Communication and the Boston University Study Abroad office. Starting this July, the participants will live in BU’s complex in London, study the history and politics of the Games, then complete internships as multimedia journalists. During the Games, BU’s Olympic interns will post video reports, podcasts, blogs and photographs to outlets including Boston.com, NPR’s WBUR radio, WCVB-TV, New England Cable News and newspapers owned by Gatehouse Media. Read more about this program.
