{"id":24,"date":"2014-05-13T15:59:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T20:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2015-09-08T16:22:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T20:22:46","slug":"redstone-gift-funds-narrative-professorship","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/redstone-gift-funds-narrative-professorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Redstone gift funds narrative professorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viacom and CBS chair <strong>Sumner Redstone (Hon. \u201994)<\/strong> has donated $2.5 million to the College of Communication (COM) for the creation of a new professorship that will study and teach narrative storytelling. The new Sumner M. Redstone Professorship in Narrative Studies will be endowed in perpetuity through a gift from the Sumner M. Redstone Charitable Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStorytelling in both entertainment and journalism has always been an integral focus of my business life through Viacom and CBS,\u201d Redstone told <em>BU Today<\/em>. \u201cI am so proud to help inspire others to the field by furthering the conversation and study of narrative storytelling at one of the country\u2019s leading institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>COM is no stranger to Redstone&#8217;s generosity. He has also funded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/academics\/film-tv\/redstone-festival\/\">Redstone Film Festival<\/a> \u2014 an annual competition for students and recent graduates of COM&#8217;s filmmaking and screenwriting programs \u2014 for 34 years.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2014\/sumner-redstone-creates-narrative-professorship\/\" class=\"button bg-green\">Read the full story in BU Today<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viacom and CBS chair Sumner Redstone (Hon. \u201994) has donated $2.5 million to the College of Communication (COM) for the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9776,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[21,22,24],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/24\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}