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College of Communication

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Books

An Alum’s New Memoir Recounts Six Decades of Beatlemania

December 3, 2024

Photo: A screenshot from a "Call Her Daddy" podcast in which Alex Cooper, sitting on a chair on the left, is talking with Vice President Kamala Harris, who is on the right.

Politics

Three BU Alums—Alex Cooper, Howard Stern, Bill Whitaker—Land Interviews Kamala Harris

October 7, 2024

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Journalism & Media

Podcast Looks at a Forgotten Chapter of the Civil Rights Struggle

September 18, 2024

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Social Media

COM Alum Will Bring the Summer Olympic Games to Social Media for NBCUniversal

July 19, 2024

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Alumni

COM’s Newest Journalism Grad Took Her Time

April 26, 2024

Photo: GFran Drescher, center, joined with National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, and the TV/Theatrical Negotiating Committee members posing with one fist up in the air. They stand in front of a wooden wall.

TV & Film

BU Actors Celebrate Hollywood Strike Settlement and Return to Work

November 16, 2023

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Accolades

Music Journalist, and BU Alum, Makes Inaugural Forbes 30 Under 30 Local Boston List

November 14, 2023

Books

Meet Hatchet Girls, Just in Time for Halloween

October 16, 2023

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Film & TV

BU Hollywood Writer Alums React with Joy, Relief to End of 148-Day Strike

October 2, 2023

Photo: A white woman wearing a black jacket, tee, and jeans, shouts and raises a sign that reads "UAW Stand Up, End Tiers, No more second class workers".

Business & Law

Neal Boudette, Veteran Auto Industry Reporter, on the Historic Auto Workers Strike

September 15, 2023

Photo: Melissa Adan of ABC News is shown reporting live from a roadside in Maui. A tan woman with black hair tied back and wearing a navy blue sleeveless blouse and khaki pants looks to her cellphone as a man wearing a large bucket hat, red shirt, and jeans holds a large TV camera in front of her. they stand on a dry, dirt road as fluffy clouds litter the blue sky.

Journalism & Media

Maui Wildfires Reunite Two BU Journalism Alums in the Field

August 22, 2023

Photo: Journalist Scott Kirsner, a white man wearing neon yellow glasses, a black shirt, navy blue and grey button-up sweater, and jeans holds his hand up as he talks to a crowd. He clutches a few miscellaneous items in his other hand as he stands in front of glass doors to a building. The sign to his left reads "Tremont Temple Baptist church". Another man to his left smiles and laughs.

Journalism & Media

Blazing Boston’s Innovation Trail

August 8, 2023

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TV & Film

BU Alum Explores the Double Life of Actor Rock Hudson in New HBO Documentary

June 29, 2023

Photo: Fox Sports reporter Jenny Taft on the sidelines at the November 25 FIFA World Cup USA-England match. A white woman wearing a a white shirt and light blue blazer holds up a microphone with a large "FOX" label on it. A green football pitch. The seats are filled with fans in the background and a large replica 2022 World cup can be seen in the background as well.

Journalism & Media

COM Alum Reports from the Biggest Stage in Sports—the FIFA World Cup

December 15, 2022

Los Angeles Times executive editor Kevin Merida (COM’79) returns to BU’s College of Communication to speak at a symposium on Black media on Friday. Photo by Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times

Journalism & Media

Alum Kevin Merida Is Reinventing the L.A. Times

October 27, 2022

Photo of Michael Russell Gunn (COM’07) and Tristan Roche (COM’20) visiting the set of Thai Cave Rescue in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in northern Thailand. The two stand in a cave giving one armed hugs as they wear helmets with head flashlights on them and smile for the camera.

TV & Film

Thai Cave Rescue Re-creates a Harrowing Story

September 21, 2022

Janet Lewin helps filmmakers develop the special effects technology needed to bring characters—like the Star Wars droid BB-8—to life on screen. Here Lewin and BB-8 sit in a cinema

TV & Film

Lucasfilm’s Janet Lewin Talks Star Wars and Technology

June 6, 2022

Still from the movie Summer of Soul featuring Fifth Dimension during a performance. They wear orange, yellow and brown outfits, including jackets with fringe and bell bottom pants. The women at right at the microphone raises her hands as she sings. Three men at right sing into one microphone.

FILM

Updated: David Dinerstein (COM’84) Takes Home Oscar for Best Documentary

March 24, 2022

Photo of Erich Schwartzel (COM’09), a light skinned man with short brown hair. He wears a black polo shirt and leans on a sliding glass door with this right hand.

Books

How China’s Box Office Shapes the Movies Americans See

March 23, 2022

TV & Film

His App Won an Emmy. His Movie Wrapped. October Was Good to BU Alum Steve Vitolo

December 1, 2021

His App Won an Emmy. His Movie Wrapped. October Was Good to BU Alum Steve Vitolo