Videos tagged news
(12) videos
Watch this video
YouSpeak: RateBU.com
Much controversy, on and off campus, has been generated by a new website, created by a BU student, that allows users with a BU e-mail address to upload photos of BU women, whose looks can then be rated by other users.The site, RateBU.com, has been [...]condemned as sexist and demeaning and has raised serious concerns about privacy. It has also garnered attention from national news media.
So this week, “YouSpeak†asks: “What is your reaction to RateBU.com?â€
More info
- 136 love it
- 0 comments
- 4641 views
Watch this video
Prothero, In Public
Professor of religion Stephen Prothero talks about the different ways he has conversations on religion with the public. Among many of his outlets are television, radio, Facebook, Twitter, and the CNN Belief Blog.
Read the story on the Annual [...]Report: http://www.bu.edu/ar/2010/communicating/
More info
- 340 love it
- 0 comments
- 3115 views
Watch this video
Terrier Tech: Barnes & Noble Nook and Amazon Kindle
Are e-readers for students? “Terrier Tech†takes a closer look.
More info
- 153 love it
- 0 comments
- 892 views
Watch this video
YouSpeak: Got News?
In our weekly feature, “YouSpeak,†we ask students to answer a single question. There’s no doubt that the internet and social media are radically changing the way many Americans get their news. A study last spring revealed that [...]newspaper circulation had dropped an average of 8.7 percent, part of an ongoing downward trend. At the same time, the popularity of mock news programs, such as Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report, has soared, particularly on college campuses. So this week we ask: “How do you get your news?â€
More info
- 140 love it
- 0 comments
- 1066 views
Watch this video
Andy Cohen on his career
COM alumnus Andy Cohen returns to campus for the Distinguished Alumni Awards Ceremony in September. He talks about his career, which began at CBS News in New York. He is currently Executive Vice President of Development & Talent at Bravo.
More info
- 133 love it
- 0 comments
- 320 views
Watch this video
How Social Media is Changing Traditional News
These days, anyone with a smartphone or a laptop can report on the news, blasting out updates on social media outlets to millions of people around the world. The question is, are they journalists?
That was the topic that a panel of news and public [...]relations professionals tackled at the conference The Media Landscape: How Social Journalism Is Changing the News Industry. The group discussed how social media benefits journalism, and why, despite hard times facing the news business, journalists are still essential to society.
Hosted by Public Relations on October 12, 2010.
More info
- 182 love it
- 0 comments
- 337 views
Watch this video
Decision 2012 montage
A video montage of students' Election Day 2012 reporting from the polls to the parties.
More info
- 131 love it
- 0 comments
- 164 views
Watch this video
Meet Alex Dowd, Producer and Anchor of Good Morning BU | Terriers in Charge
Each Friday morning, at a time when most Terriers are still asleep, Alex Dowd is hard at work preparing for the live broadcast of BUTV10’s Good Morning BU. As producer and anchor of the weekly show, Dowd (COM’24) arrives at COM’s Studio West at [...]5:30 am to begin prepping for the show, which airs at 10 am each week. Like its network morning show counterparts, Good Morning BU features a lively mix of news (campus, local, and international), entertainment, and sports,
As the show’s coproducer, Dowd is responsible for developing story ideas and editing packages and is on-air talent as well. She also oversees the writing room. Throughout the week, she’s scanning news sites, looking at international, national, local, and campus headlines for stories that she feels are a good fit for GMBU, as the show is known. She and writers meet each Thursday to hammer out a rundown and a script. The next morning, the staff of nearly 40 gathers for a quick run-through at 9 am before the cameras begin rolling live an hour later.
The show, which launched a decade ago, is the only live news program produced by BUTV10. As such, Dowd says, it offers invaluable experience to the students working as writers, correspondents, editors, and tech crew.
“GMBU is great for the students at COM because we are able to provide live television experience. it’s a learned skill. Preparing for a segment versus performing it or delivering it live feels completely different,” she says. And because there are no retakes or do-overs, cast and crew have to learn how to improvise or quickly recover from any flubs and then move on.
Skills that will no doubt come in handy for Dowd. After she graduates in January, she will become an on-air reporter for KGUN 9, the ABC affiliate in Tucson, Ariz.
More info
- 24 love it
- 0 comments
- 861 views
Watch this video
Class of 2022: Looking Back at Four Years at Boston University
Congratulations to the Boston University Class of 2022! In honor of your approaching graduation day, we thought we'd take a trip down memory lane and remember some of the biggest moments in pop culture, politics, sports, and more that took place [...]during your four years at BU.
More info
- 41 love it
- 0 comments
- 1198 views
