BU launches investigative reporting collaborative
Boston University today launched the New England Center for Investigative Reporting (NECIR), the nation’s first university-based, multimedia investigative reporting collaborative focused on local and regional issues.
Based in the Journalism Department of BU’s College of Communication, NECIR will produce in-depth investigative news reports with its major media partners. They include the Boston Globe, the region’s most widely circulated newspaper; Boston.com, one of the most widely read newspaper Web sites in the nation; New England Cable News (NECN), the largest, most honored regional cable television station in the country; WBUR-FM, one of the country’s preeminent public radio stations; and New England Ethnic News, a Web-based news service for ethnic media. NECIR also will provide its partners with resources and assistance to help generate more investigative reporting in their newsrooms.
BU journalism students, working as reporter trainees, will help research stories, guided by a faculty of veteran journalists, including center directors and award-winning investigative reporters Joe Bergantino (ex-WBZ-TV) and Maggie Mulvihill (ex-Boston Herald, WBZ-TV); Mitch Zuckoff and Dick Lehr (ex-Boston Globe); Lou Ureneck (ex-Philadelphia Inquirer deputy managing editor); and College of Communication Dean Tom Fiedler (ex-Miami Herald editor, Pulitzer winner). A diverse group of Boston public high school students also will be given Center internships.
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Visit the New England Center for Investigative Reporting website.
