The annual COM Blue Chip award is given to College of Communication seniors who are leaders at Boston University, the College of Communication or in the community. These students also have demonstrated talents in their area of interest, are involved in professional activities and have excelled academically. This year, the winners include a Redstone winner, [...]

“You do not LOSE gold, you WIN silver” may seem like a minor distinction to a layperson, but Olympics correspondent Andrea Kremer reminded Boston University students that no detail is too small in good sports reporting. Other points Kremer stressed during her April 25 visit to the College of Communication: Ask the hard-working question. Every [...]

Prof. Garland Waller’s No Way Out But One, a documentary about a mother who resorts to kidnapping her children to save them from domestic violence, won best documentary at the Bare Bones International Film Festival in Muskogee, Okla. Additionally, Waller, who co-produced the film with Barry Nolan and Toby Kleinman, was presented with a medal [...]

WBTU, BU’s student-run radio station, won two college radio awards from the Associated Press of New England, the news organization announced today. Both stories were produced for Prof. Anne Donohue’s radio class. Ali Donohue (’12) won best feature reporting for “Ladyfest Easthampton,” which takes a glimpse at the performers and activists behind Smith College’s feminist [...]

Two Boston University students have been selected by BU and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting for international health reporting fellowships in Africa this summer as part of the center’s growing Campus Consortium Partnership of 16 institutions of higher learning. Meghan Dhaliwal, a College of Communication senior, and Jason Hayes, a School of Public Health [...]

Photojournalism alumnus Peter DiCampo (’05) is 1 of 30 “new and emerging photographers to watch,” according to a new feature by Photo District News, the leading photography magazine in the country. From PDN’s profile of DiCampo: DiCampo was attracted to photography by an interest in the exotic. “I assumed I would photograph conflict,” he says. [...]

A guy may have founded Facebook, but it’s women who use it the most. Keeping this in mind, two BU graduates – including media ventures alumnus Phil Mark – created a social network just for men, according to The Christian Science Monitor: It’s a tough nut to crack: While the number of social media users [...]

Prof. William McKeen won the Florida Book Award gold medal for Mile Marker Zero, a rollicking look at Key West. From a profile of McKeen’s book in The Gainesville Sun: Through the eyes of writers and artists like Tom Corcoran, Tom McGuane and Russell Chatham, McKeen takes readers to the two-by-four mile town during the [...]

On Apr. 2, Prof. Mitch Zuckoff’s book Lost in Shangri-La was awarded the 2012 Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award for nonfiction. Zuckoff’s book follows the strange events following a post-WWII plane crash in a land untouched by the outside world. From the book’s website: On May 13, 1945, twenty-four officers and enlisted [...]

In its most recent report, The New England Center for Investigative Reporting looked at how small Massachusetts towns are increasingly relying on shrinking lottery funds for some of their most basic functions: In Lynn, where 2010 Census data show that nearly 20 percent of residents live in poverty, two years of cuts in “unrestricted aid” [...]