Alumni
Fall 2008
Kelsey Abbruzzese is the correspondent for the MetroWest Daily News. She has also worked as a national political desk assistant at the Boston Globe and as an intern at NESN, covering the Boston Red Sox. She also was the arts and entertainment editor for the Bowdoin College Bowdoin Orient. Expected graduation: Jan. 2009
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Jessica Collier is the correspondent for the Daily Hampshire Gazette. She has worked at the (North Creek) News Enterprise and Boston 's Weekly Dig. She earned her bachelor's degree from Siena College in Albany , N.Y. Expected graduation: Jan. 2009
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Kathryn Eident is the correspondent for The Cape Cod Times and WCAI-FM, Woods Hole. She has interned at Dollars and Sense Magazine, Cape Cod Life Publications, and more recently, New York Public Radio. She was also a 2008 summer fellow for the International Radio and Television Society. Expected graduation: Jan. 2009
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Jeff Elliott is the correspondent for the Waltham News Tribune. He has worked on the city desk at The Boston Globe and the sports section of the Boston University Daily Free Press. He has a degree in Management Science with honors from the University of California, San Diego. Expected graduation: Jan. 2009.
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Evan Lips is the correspondent for The Enterprise of Brockton. He was a contributor to The Kenyon Collegian, and has written for Boston ’s Weekly Dig and TheStreet.com. Evan previously worked as a legislative assistant in the United States Congress.
Expected graduation: Jan. 2009
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Lyle Moran is the correspondent for the Lowell Sun. He has interned for the Somerville Journal and is a staff writer for Boston University ’s Daily Free Press, where he has covered campus news and sports.
Expected graduation: Fall 2009
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Lisa Przystup is the correspondent for the Milford Daily News. She has been published in Desert Living Magazine, Boston Magazine, and recently came very close to having a Letter to the Editor published in the Washington Post. Expected graduation: Jan. 2009
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Kaili Xu is the correspondent for the Patriot Ledger of Quincy. She has worked as a researcher at Boston Business Journal, hosted a radio show at WTBU and was a contributing writer for Loudbus Media, a Dorchester , MA-based website company. While studying in Shanghai , China , Ms. Xu worked as an intern editor at United Nations Online Network. Expected graduation: January 2009
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Naoko Yoshido is the correspondent for the Attleboro Sun Chronicle. She was an intern for Boston ’s Weekly Dig and holds a degree in Foreign Studies from Sophia University in Tokyo .
Expected graduation: Jan. 2009
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Nannan Zhong is the correspondent for the Daily New Transcript of Dedham and Norwood. She has been a full time intern at the American Public Television, and has worked at the APT Worldwide business department. She also worked for Beijing Municipal Government, and a part time news reporter in Beijing Television..
Expected graduation: Jan. 2009
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Spring 2008
Rick Ahrens is correspondent for the (Newton-Waltham) Daily News Tribune and the (Dedham-Norwood) Daily Transcript. He received a degree in psychology with honors from the University of Buffalo. He has worked for the Bee Group Newspapers in Buffalo, covering local news.
Expected graduation: January 2009.
ahrens@bu.edu
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Travis Andersen is the correspondent for the Hampshire Gazette. He graduated with a B.A. in English Literature from Kenyon College, where he was an editor and staff writer for The Kenyon Collegian. He is co-editor of The Comment, Boston University’s award-winning graduate student magazine.
Expected graduation: January 2009
travand@bu.edu
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Candy Chan is the correspondent for the Patriot Ledger of Quincy. She has been a full-time court news reporter in Hong Kong and an intern at the English Channel of China Central Television for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She earned a B.A. in English and comparative literature from the University of Hong Kong where she graduated at summa cum laude.
Expected graduation: January 2009
cchan@bu.edu
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Cara Hogan is the correspondent for the Lowell Sun. She has written for the Boston University Daily Free Press, serving as a staff writer, assignment editor, and assistant editor. Hogan studied abroad in Madrid where she worked as an editorial intern at the English magazine, The Broadsheet.
Graduation May 2008
chogan@bu.edu
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Maite Jullian is the correspondent for the Attleboro Sun-Chronicle. She holds a masters in modern European History from the University Paul Valery, Montpellier, France. Ms. Julllian has worked as a general assignment reporter for Le Journal du Pont du Gard,
a weekly local newspaper, and was an intern at Le Midi Libre, a daily newspaper while studying in Montpellier.
Expected graduation: Jan. 2009
mjullian@bu.edu
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Matt Kakley is the correspondent for the Milford Daily News. A native of Springfield, Mass., he recently completed an internship Gov. Deval Patrick's press office.
Expected graduation: May 2008.
mkak18@bu.edu
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Rachel Kolokoff is the correspondent for The Eagle-Tribune of Andover. She has written for Miami’s Community Newspapers in Florida. She earned a B.A. in English from Boston University and wrote for her campus newspaper The Daily Free Press.
Expected graduation: January 2009
rachk421@bu.edu
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Neil Mirochnick is correspondent for The Enterprise of Brockton. Neil has worked for the Patriot Ledger of Quincy, Mass., and Boston University’s Daily Free Press. He was also a contributing writer and editorial assistant for Rip It Up magazine in Auckland, New Zealand and worked as an international student volunteer in Costa Rica.
Expected graduation: May 2008.
Neilmiro@bu.edu
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Fall 2007
Lauren Gniazdowski is the correspondent for The Daily News Tribune of Newton. She has written for the Allston Brighton TAB, Vogue Entertaining + Travel magazine in Sydney, Australia and WBUR-FM, Boston's NPR news station. She graduated from James Madison University in 2006 with a major in history and a double minor in Spanish and Latin American studies.
Expected graduation: January 2008
lgniaz@bu.edu
Keith Howard is the correspondent for the Attleboro Sun-Chronicle He has been a contributing writer for the Somerville News and an intern at the Boston Weekly Dig. He earned a B.A. from the University of Illinois in Champaign, Urbana, majoring in English Literature.
Expected graduation: January 2008.
krhoward@bu.edu
Ira Kantor is correspondent for the Milford Daily News. He has been a contributing music journalist at Elmore Magazine in New York City. He earned a B.A. in English, General Literature & Rhetoric from Binghamton University where he wrote for his campus newspaper PipeDream and hosted shows on WHRW Binghamton 90.5 FM. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The ArtsFuse and Puppetry International magazine."
Expected graduation: January 2008
ijkantor@bu.edu
Marybeth Kennealy is the correspondent for The Lowell Sun. She has interned at the Newton TAB, worked as director of development at Dare Family Services and also worked in public relations. She earned a B.A. in English from the College of the Holy Cross.
Expected graduation: January 2008.
kennealy@bu.edu
Annya Lott is the correspondent for the Daily Hampshire Gazette. She has worked in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles. In May 2003, Annya earned her BA in English from Spelman College where she worked at Rolling Out Magazine, Channel Six News station, and WRFG 89.3 FM Talk Radio.
Expected graduation: January 2008
alott@bu.edu
Erin Predinger is correspondent for the Daily News Item of Dedham. She worked as a general assignment reporter for the Souderton Independent and the News Herald, both in Pennsylvania. She graduated from Boston University with a degree in public relations and a minor in international relations.
Expected graduation: January 2008
eep84@bu.edu
Amy Rafferty is a correspondent for The Eagle-Tribune of Lawrence. She has been a correspondent for the Dover-Sherborn Press and has written for the Allston-Brighton Tab and the Cambridge Chronicle. She is a graduate of St. Andrews University in Scotland.
Expected graduation: January 2008.
alr@bu.edu
Toni Scott is the correspondent for The Enterprise of Brockton. She has written for a weekly newspaper in Chico, Calif., as well as for Boston University’s The Muckraker. Toni received her undergraduate degree in political science with a minor in agriculture business from Chico State University.
Expected graduation: January 2008.
tmscott@bu.edu
LaToya Smith is a correspondent for The Lowell Sun. She has been an intern at Channel 3 Eyewitness News, WVIT NBC 30, and Hartford Magazine. She earned a B.A. in history and a B.S. in communication from Eastern Connecticut State University where she graduated magna cum laude.
Expected graduation: January 2008
smithlat@bu.edu
Dan Trudeau is correspondent for WCAI-FM in Woods Hole. He graduated from the University of Michigan where he worked as a general assignment and state government reporter for The Michigan Daily. He has also he worked as education and city government reporter for the South Lyon Herald, a weekly newspaper in a Detroit suburb. He has served as an intern at WBUR and has filed freelance feature reports for New Hampshire Public Radio.
Expected graduation: January 2008
dtrudeau@bu.edu
Yu-Ting Wang is correspondent for the Patriot Ledger of Quincy. She has been an editorial intern at Logistics Management Magazine, Reed Business. She has a bachelor’s degree in International Business from Guangdong University of Business Studies, China.
Expected graduation: January 2008.
tingting@bu.edu
Spring 2007
Shannon Barrington is the correspondent for the Attleboro Sun Chronicle. She has worked as an assignment and beats editor for Boston University’s Daily Free Press.
Expected graduation: May, 2007
shanbarr@bu.edu
Lindsey Parietti is the correspondent for the Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton. She has written for the Boston University Daily Free Press and the North Cambridge Alewife. She is in the undergraduate honors program pursuing a B.S. in journalism and a B.A. in political science. Lindsey also speaks Italian fluently and is currently studying Arabic.
Expected Graduation: May 2007
parietti@bu.edu
Mini Kolluri is the correspondent for The Eagle Tribune of Lawrence. She has a master’s degree in audiovisual communication from Commits, Bangalore and a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology from, St Josephs College, Bangalore. She has worked for The New Indian Express, Bangalore, and Deccan Chronicle, Madras, as a feature writer and ad editor. She also produced radio shows for the All India Radio.
Expected graduation: January 2008.
kolluri@bu.edu
Melissa Lockhart is the correspondent for WCAI-FM on Cape Cod.
She has been an intern at WBZ-TV in Boston and served as a co-host for The Way It Is, a hip-hop radio show, on WTBU Radio.
Expected Graduation: May 2006.
lockhart@bu.edu
Audrey Marks is the correspondent for The Lowell Sun. She was city editor and local government reporter for the Stillwater Newspress, in Stillwater, Okla. She is a graduate of Washington and Jefferson College.
Expected graduation date: January 2007.
ammarks@bu.edu
Rebekah Metzler is the correspondent for the Daily News Transcript of Dedham and the Daily News Tribune of Waltham. She earned a B.A. from Bowdoin College, majoring in U.S. Government and Anthropology. She was a contributing writer for the Somerville News and the Bowdoin Orient.
Expected graduation: January 2008.
rebeckahmetzler@yahoo.com
Kate Plourd is the correspondent for the Worcester Telegram. She has written for the National Journal and The Common Denominator in Washington D.C., and the News-Enterprise, Seal Beach, Calif. She also served as managing editor at the Daily 49er at California State University Long Beach. She interned for Rep. Neil Abercrombie in the summer of 2006. She is a graduate of California State University Long Beach.
Expected graduation: December 2007.
katemp@bu.edu
Christian Schiavone is correspondent for the Milford Daily News. He interned for the Brookline TAB and wrote for Vision, a magazine of the College of Communications. He was a volunteer at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.
Expected graduation: May 2007.
cbs@bu.edu
Colleen M. Sullivan is the correspondent for The Patriot Ledger of Quincy. She has worked previously at the Voter News Service and in the Irish internet industry. She is a graduate of New York University.
Expected graduation: January 2008.
colleen.m.sullivan@gmail.com
To-Wen Tseng produces video packages for the Statehouse Program. She was recently the Supreme Court correspondent for TVBS, the leading news channel in Taiwan. She has also written for the United Daily News, the leading newspaper in Taiwan, and the Economic Daily News. After receiving her B.A. in journalism from Chinese Culture University, Tseng studied international relations in North Carolina State University. She worked for UNC-TV as a production assistant.
Expected Graduation: January 2008.
twtwseng@bu.edu
Jordy Yager is the correspondent for the Brockton Enterprise. He spent the past two years writing a regular news column for Show Business Weekly, a theater trade newspaper in New York City. In 2004, he earned a B.A. in Sanskrit from Maharishi University of Management where he served as student body president.
Expected graduation: January 2007.
jyager@bu.edu
Fall 2006 Students
Patrick Anderson is the correspondent for the Brockton Enterprise. He has written for the Patriot Ledger, Daily News Tribune, Newton Tab, Needham Times, Watertown Tab and Modern Materials Handling magazine. He has also taught 7th grade English and worked for Travel and Leisure magazine. He is a graduate of New York University.
Expected graduation: Dec. 2006.
andersop@bu.edu
Anupreeta Das is the correspondent for the Daily Hampshire Gazette. She holds master's degree from the London School of Economics and a bachelor's degree from the University of Delhi, India. She has reported for leading Indian publications, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine and the Christian Science Monitor.
Expected graduation: Dec. 2006.
preeta@bu.edu
Gary Dzen is a correspondent for Community Newspaper Co. newspapers in Framingham, Waltham, Milford and Dedham. He has written for Boston.com, website of the Boston Globe, the Boston Metro and the Journal Inquirer (Manchester, Conn.) Mr. Dzen is also a web producer at Boston.com. He is a graduate of Bates College.
Expected graduation Dec. 2006.
garydzen@bu.edu
Rick Heller is correspondent for the Lowell Sun newspaper group. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard. He served on the staff of the California Public Utilities Commission.
Expected graduation: May 2007.
rheller@bu.edu
Michelle Laczkoski is a correspondent for Community Newspaper Co. newspapers in Framingham, Waltham, Milford and Dedham. She has been an entertainment freelancer for ctnow.com and wrote for The Chronicle in Monroe, CT. In addition to writing for BU’s Daily Free Press, Michelle has also held an internship at Sikorsky Aircraft.
Expected graduation: May, 2007.
mlacz@bu.edu
Ana Rivas is correspondent for The Eagle-Tribune. A Fullbright scholar from Argentina, Rivas wrote for La Nación and has been a contributing writer for El Planeta, a New England Spanish-language newspaper and The Cambridge Chronicle. She also has interned at the Boston Phoenix. She studied Literature, Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires.
Expected graduation: May 2007.
arivas@bu.edu
Heather Schultz is the correspondent for the Attleboro Sun Chronicle.
She has spent time managing service projects throughout Asia. Heather graduated with an honors degree in political science from the University of Alberta where she served on a committee charged with class and curriculum review.
Expected graduation: December. 2006.
hschultz@bu.edu
Leslie Spoelstra is a correspondent for the Quincy Patriot Ledger and WCAI-FM on Cape Cod. She has written for The Boston Globe and the CNC newspapers. After receiving her B.A. in Anthropology and Spanish from St. Cloud State University, Spoelstra did fieldwork in Costa Rica for the Science Museum of Minnesota. She served for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English in Guinea, West Africa.
Expected graduation: December 2006.
spoels@bu.edu
David Cogger is a correspondent for The Patriot Ledger of Quincy and WCAI of Falmouth. He has worked recently for The Bulletin Newspapers and Open Source Radio, airing on WGBH Radio in Boston. He comes to journalism after pursuing interests in education, business, art and the legal profession. During and after his undergraduate work in East Asian Studies, he lived in both China and Japan. This past summer, he restored a farmhouse in Shelburne Vermont.
Expected graduation: December 2006.
dcogger@bu.edu
Spring 2006
Jim Bildner is the correspondent for the Hampshire Gazette of Northampton. Bildner is general partner of New Horizons Partners, LLC, a venture philanthropy and capital firm. He is a trustee of The Kresge Foundation, Case Western Reserve University, Lesley University and Graywolf Press and an adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve School of Law. Bildner has written for The Boston Globe, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , Inc. Magazine and Morning Edition on NPR.
jbildner@newhorizonspartners.com
Jenai Engelhard is the correspondent for the Attleboro Sun-Chronicle. She received her B.A. in English Literature and Theater Arts from the University of California, Irvine in 2005. She has worked as an intern at the Orange County Weekly in Santa Ana, Calif.
Expected graduation: December 2006.
jenai@bu.edu
Megan Hawkins is a correspondent for WCAI-FM on Cape Cod. A 2003 graduate of Northern Illinois University with a B.A in History, Ms. Hawkins worked at the Chicago firm Berns & Associates specializing in estate planning and corporate tax law. She plans on finishing her masters next fall in Washington D.C.
Expected graduation: December 2006.
meghawk@bu.edu
Adrienne LaFrance is the correspondent for the The Eagle Tribune and is an intern at WBUR. She received a B.A. in journalism from Michigan State University in 2004 and held internships with the Detroit Red Wings public relations, Michigan State University media relations and WPLY radio in Philadelphia.
Expected graduation: December 2006.
france5@bu.edu
Matt Lynch is the correspondent for the Patriot Ledger of Quincy. He has worked as a staff reporter for the Banner-News of Magnolia, Ark., and acted as a special correspondent for the Banner-News during the Democratic National Convention in 2004.
Expected graduation: May 2006.
ksoze@bu.edu
Annie Mostue is the correspondent for the Brockton Enterprise. She wrote news and restaurant reviews for the Wellesley News, the student publication at Wellesley College, where she earned her B.A. in English. She has worked as a freelance researcher and writer for several businesses in the Greater Boston area.
Expected graduation: December 2006.
amostue@bu.edu
Ashley Patterson is a correspondent for WCAI-FM on Cape Cod. A 2005 Boston University graduate with a B.S. in public relations, Ms. Patterson interned for a special projects producer at Boston's NBC affiliate station Channel 7 News. Next fall, she plans on finishing her masters degree in Washington D.C. while focusing on political reporting.
Expected graduation: December 2006.
anpatter@bu.edu
Natalia Pelayo is the correspondent for The Lowell Sun. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a B.A. in government and was a student at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD.
Expected graduation: December 2006.
ncpelayo@bu.edu
Jessica Scarpati is the correspondent for The News Transcript of Dedham. She has worked for the Milford Daily News and written for other Boston-area publications including the Canton Journal and Brookline Bulletin. She also worked for La Hora, the daily newspaper of Quito, Ecuador in 2004.
Expected graduation: December 2006.
ruby@bu.edu
David Undercoffler is correspondent for the Milford Daily News and the Waltham News Transcript. He has worked at the Improper Bostonian magazine and interned at the NBC news bureau in London. Prior to his graduate studies he worked in marketing and public relations.
Expected graduation: December 2006.
dpu@bu.edu
Fall 2005
Laura Dannen is the correspondent for the Patriot
Ledger of Quincy, Mass. She is also a news and entertainment reporter
for the Boston Metro. A New Jersey native, Ms. Dannen graduated
from Princeton University with a B.A. in politics. She has reported for
the Asbury Park Press and the Newark Star-Ledger. Along
with two BU classmates, she recently had an investigative piece on police
perjury published in the Boston Globe. She has also worked at
Boston University as a teaching/graduate assistant and as a COM Writing
Center Fellow.
Expected graduation: December 2005.
laura.dannen@gmail.com
Olivia DiFeterici is correspondent for the Daily
Hampshire Gazette in Northampton. She also writes for Industry Magazine,
a lifestyle publication in Boston.
Expected graduation: January 2005.
ond81@yahoo.com
Tracy Dubinsky is the correspondent for the Attleboro
Sun Chronicle. Before attending BU, she was a graphics specialist
at a consulting firm for two years and held internships at Fidelity Investments
and Mindshare Worldwide.
Expected graduation: December 2005.
tracymd@bu.edu
Neil Freese is the correspondent for the Waltham
Daily News Tribune. He has also worked as a stringer for the Newton
Tab and is currently interning at the Boston Phoenix. Prior
to his graduate studies, he spent three years writing and editing employee
evaluations for a grocery store chain in Northern California.
Expected graduation: December 2005.
ncfreese@hotmail.com
Katie Liesener is the correspondent for the Daily
News Transcript of Dedham. She has interned with the Boston Phoenix,
and was a writer for the Millikin Quarterly, a college alumni
magazine in Illinois. In October, the Boston Globe published
an investigative piece she wrote with two other graduate students.
Expected graduation: January 2005.
kliesener@gmail.com
Jason Lowell is the correspondent for the Milford
Daily News. Prior to attending BU he worked at WSVN-FOX (Miami, FL).
Expected graduation: December 2005
jasonlowell35@hotmail.com
Rachel Lux is the correspondent for the Worcester
Telegram and Gazette. Prior to studying at BU, she was a copy editor
and freelance writer at the Quad-City Times in Davenport, IA.
Expected graduation: December 2006
rlux@bu.edu
Brittany Oat is the correspondent for WCAI-FM, the Cape
and Islands NPR station in Woods Hole. Brittany has worked for WNPR in
Connecticut, the Hartford Courant, the Norwich Bulletin
and the Newton TAB. She is also the executive producer for the
Boston University television show Inside Boston. She will graduate in
the Spring of 2007.
brittoat@bu.edu
Annie Sherman is correspondent for the Lowell Sun.
She was an associate editor at Newport Life Magazine and has
worked at the Newport (R.I.) Daily News, the South County
Independent of South Kingstown, R.I., and the Sun-Sentinel
of South Florida.
Expected graduation, January 2005.
asherman@bu.edu
Catherine Williams is the correspondent for the Eagle-Tribune. She also works as a research assistant for CommonWealth Magazine. Her experience include stints as a correspondent for the Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times. She also worked on a Boston University project during the 2004 Democratic National Convention, filing reports for the Casper Star Tribune. Prior to attending Boston University, Ms. Williams worked as an executive in the software industry. Expected graduation: December 2005 cer_williams@yahoo.com