{"id":3369,"date":"2015-03-05T12:22:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T16:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2015-11-19T15:23:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T20:23:31","slug":"mitchell-zuckoff-is-inaugural-redstone-professor-in-narrative-studies","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/mitchell-zuckoff-is-inaugural-redstone-professor-in-narrative-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell Zuckoff Is Inaugural Redstone Professor in Narrative Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>COM professor will promote storytelling in new post<\/h3>\n<p>Best-selling author and journalist Mitchell Zuckoff has made a living writing page-turning books based on real-life events like harrowing plane crashes and a minute-by-minute account of the 2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2014\/zuckoff-chronicles-benghazi-attack-in-13-hours\/\">Islamic militant attack<\/a>\u00a0on the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Critics have pointed to the former <em>Boston Globe<\/em> writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist\u2019s work as first-rate examples of narrative nonfiction.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckoff, a College of Communication professor of journalism since 2003, will now be imparting his narrative storytelling skills to future journalists as the inaugural <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2014\/sumner-redstone-creates-narrative-professorship\/\">Sumner M. Redstone Professor in Narrative Studies<\/a>. The new professorship, made possible by a $2.5 million gift from Viacom and CBS chair Sumner Redstone (Hon.\u201994), a former School of Law faculty member and longtime BU benefactor, is endowed in perpetuity to support a senior COM faculty member with scholarly and teaching expertise in the field of narrative studies.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2015\/zuckoff-inaugural-redstone-professor-in-narrative-studies\/\" class=\"button bg-green\">Read the full article in BU Today<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COM professor will promote storytelling in new post Best-selling author and journalist Mitchell Zuckoff has made a living writing page-turning&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10938,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,66],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/3369"}],"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\/10938"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/3369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3691,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/3369\/revisions\/3691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}