{"id":35575,"date":"2023-02-23T14:41:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T19:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=35575"},"modified":"2023-03-09T14:56:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T19:56:26","slug":"merida-bardasano-com-2023-convocation-speakers","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/merida-bardasano-com-2023-convocation-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Merida, Bardasano COM 2023 Convocation Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> Executive Editor Kevin Merida and TelevisaUnivision Producer Carlos Bardasano will serve as speakers at the Boston University College of Communication convocation ceremonies for 2023 graduates this May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merida (COM \u201879) will speak at the undergraduate ceremony on Friday, May 19 at 9 a.m. at Agganis Arena, and Bardasano (Questrom \u201894, COM \u201897) will be the graduate ceremony speaker the same day at 3 p.m. at Walter Brown Arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before leading the <em>Times<\/em>, Merida previously worked in top editing positions at <em>ESPN<\/em> and the <em>Washington Post<\/em>. While studying journalism in COM in the 1970s, he was also a leader for a student paper, <em>BLACKFOLK<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bardasano produces one of the leading shows on TelevisaUnivision\u2019s streaming service VIX+, <em>Travesuras de la Ni\u00f1a Mala<\/em>. He is also the president and head of content at W Studios, a producing division of TelevisaUnivision, one of the largest Spanish-language content companies. He studied business entertainment at BU for his undergraduate degree and film and television management in COM for his graduate degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn Kevin Merida and Carlos Bardasano, we have two inspiring alums whose industry-leading work is making a difference in the world in so many ways,\u201d COM Dean Mariette DiChristina says. \u201cI\u2019m thrilled they can join us and can\u2019t wait to learn from them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Times Executive Editor Kevin Merida and TelevisaUnivision Producer Carlos Bardasano will serve as speakers at the Boston University&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21331,"featured_media":35578,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[962],"tags":[],"bu-publication":[1472],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/35575"}],"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\/21331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/35575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35722,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/35575\/revisions\/35722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35575"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=35575"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=35575"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=35575"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=35575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}