Photo: Ken Burns at Boston University in March 2026
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For Filmmaker Ken Burns, the Best Answer Is Usually: “It’s Complicated”

The award-winning documentarian was a keynote speaker at COM’s Power of Narrative conference and received the school’s Hugo Shong Lifetime Journalism Achievement Award

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