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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

Composite image of Jay Winuk and his brother Glenn Winuk. At left, photo of Jay Winuk, at an event that passed out meals to people in need in 2019, speaking into a microphone. He wears a grayish blue t-shirt that reads “Tomorrow together.” At right, photo of a printed photo of Glenn Winuk in a blue dress uniform. He wears large circular glasses.

Alumni

His Brother’s Death on 9/11 Spurred COM Alum to Make Sure We Never Forget

September 8, 2021

Concept illustration of a person with ecoanxiety and depression caused by global warming fear. A person with green pants and a blue shirt lays in a bed of smoke stacks.

Climate Change

Communicating Conservation Under Biden Versus Trump

July 28, 2021

Composite image featuring photos of Cynthia Erivo in the role of Aretha Franklin in the NatGeo TV series 'Genius: Aretha' next to a photo of the real Aretha Franklin in the 1968

TV & Film

Genius: Aretha Will Give You Goosebumps, Says Producer Sam Sokolow

March 18, 2021

COM alum Mikaela Lefrak (’15, right) with co-host Lori McCue discussing the arts on WAMU’s “Get Out There.

Journalism & Media

Should Washington, D.C., Become the 51st State?

March 10, 2021

A composite of portrait photos of Amy Neben, Olivia LaRoche, and Alissa Bachner

Accolades

Trio of BU Alums Makes the Hollywood Reporter’s Next Gen List

December 17, 2020

Politics

BU Alum Leads a Very Different Democratic National Convention

August 17, 2020

BU Alum Leads a Very Different Democratic National Convention