I\u2019m excited to share a selection of many more achievements by our students, alumni and faculty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
STUDENTS<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nCOM journalism students provided blanket coverage of the New Hampshire presidential primaries<\/a> and then the November election<\/a> through BUTV and BU News Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCOM advertising students took home 16 Hatch Awards<\/a>, more than any other school, in one of the country\u2019s premier competitions for New England creatives in marketing and advertising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Tianyi](\"\/com\/files\/2024\/03\/tianyi-du-card.jpg\")
Tianyi Du in-action directing her film “Bob.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nTianyu Du won a national Directors Guild of America Student Award<\/a> for her film, \u201cBob.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nEight received the first-ever COM Graduate Student Awards<\/a>, including Graduate Student of the Year Shivangi Sethi.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nPRWeek honored COM students at PRoBono, who worked overnight creating campaigns for worthy causes, with its Impact Communications Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBUTV’s Good Morning BU<\/a> won a prestigious Silver Telly award, honoring the best in local and regional video and television.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCOM student journalists produced stories with national and local impact: an investigation for Good Morning America and ProPublica<\/a> of judges who did not recuse when facing potential appearances of impropriety; a story for the Associated Press<\/a> about Congressional members traveling the globe with family members paid by private interest groups; and a six-part series for Boston NBC 10<\/a> exploring the troubled state of Massachusetts police.<\/p>\n\n\n\nJulian Zhu and Andrew Burke-Stevenson won for spot news at the College Photographer of the Year awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nKairen Shi and Iraj Chaudhry\u2019s campaign for Fanta received three coveted pencils at the Young Ones<\/a> advertising awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe 44th annual Redstone Film Festival<\/a> celebrated student work in film and screenwriting for a near-capacity crowd of families and friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\nALUMNI<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"\/com\/files\/2024\/05\/kirsten-berg-sized-B-1-1024x1024.jpg\")
Kristen Berg (COM’11)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nReporting for ProPublica, Kristen Berg (COM\u201911) and colleagues won a Pulitzer and other major journalism awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBill Fine (COM’77) was inducted to Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAlexa Sudarto (COM’23) won the Silver at Young Lions Indonesia<\/a>, recognizing top digital advertising.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFour COM grads received nominations for Writers Guild Awards<\/a>: Julia Cox, Benny Safdie, Felipe Torres Medina and Rob Turbovsky.<\/p>\n\n\n\nABC News multi-platform reporter Em Nguyen (COM’15) won BU\u2019s Young Alumni Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTwo COM alums \u2013 Alex Cooper (COM\u201917) and Howard Stern (COM\u201976) \u2013 scored interviews with Kamala Harris<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAdweek named Vanessa de Beaumont<\/a> (COM\u201917) of the ad agency Mischief to the magazine\u2019s annual Creative 100 list.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFACULTY<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nCOM welcomed new department chairs: Craig Shepherd<\/a> for Film and Television and Sung-Un Yang<\/a> for Mass Communication, Advertising and Public Relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMaria Elizabeth Grabe<\/a> joined as the inaugural Dalton Family Professor in New or Emerging Media and Division of Emerging Media Studies director.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMichelle Amazeen<\/a> and Sung-Un Yang<\/a> were listed among the top 2% most highly cited scholars, according to the annual Stanford University survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\nGreg Marinovich<\/a> launched a new summer course<\/a> in Padua, Italy, for students aspiring to report in conflict zones.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDavid Abel<\/a> produced two documentaries, In The Whale and Inundation District<\/a>, each touring the film circuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCOM’s Roy Grundmann<\/a> received a Fulbright Award<\/a> to serve as visiting faculty at Karl Franzens University in Austria \u2013 the first faculty member so awarded since 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\nLocal USA, hosted by Tina McDuffie<\/a>, won a Webby with Retro Report for the episode, \u201cGenerations Stolen<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe International Communication Association recognized AnneMarie McClain<\/a> and her co-author with a Top Faculty Paper Award, and Kathryn Coduto with an Emerging Scholar Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cPooja, Sir<\/a>,\u201d a new feature film by COM\u2019s Deepak Rauniyar<\/a>, was featured at the prestigious Venice International Film Festival before its U.S. debut later in the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"A](\"\/com\/files\/2024\/09\/BU_Faculty_Geller_leadin-crop-e1727200419689-1024x796.jpg\")
Amy Geller, assistant professor, Film and Television.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nCOM faculty were busy with podcasting. Amy Geller<\/a> (COM\u201916) examined Black-Jewish solidarity in The Rabbis Go South<\/a>. Richard Lehr<\/a> completed a second season of the true crime podcast, Truth & Lies<\/a>, for ABC. COM\u2019s Communication Research Center premiered The COMversation<\/a>, with an episode exploring political misinformation, hosted by Charlotte Howell.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Journalism Department brought together key figures in the industry: nationally, with top editors from major newspaper coming together for two days of meetings<\/a>, and regionally, leaders of nonprofit news startups seeking to fill the void left by local newspaper closures.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFilms of COM\u2019s Jan Egleson<\/a> were celebrated in career retrospective<\/a> at storied Brattle theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAdam Lapidus<\/a> and A. Sherrod Blakely<\/a> received this year\u2019s top COM faculty awards<\/a>, honoring their work in instruction and advising, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBest,
Mariette DiChristina
Dean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Friend of COM, Many congratulations to our students, faculty, and staff for a wonderful year \u2013 and huge thanks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1654,"featured_media":35121,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[1482],"tags":[],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/40682"}],"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\/1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/40682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40703,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/40682\/revisions\/40703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40682"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=40682"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=40682"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=40682"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=40682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
COM advertising students took home 16 Hatch Awards<\/a>, more than any other school, in one of the country\u2019s premier competitions for New England creatives in marketing and advertising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tianyu Du won a national Directors Guild of America Student Award<\/a> for her film, \u201cBob.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eight received the first-ever COM Graduate Student Awards<\/a>, including Graduate Student of the Year Shivangi Sethi.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n PRWeek honored COM students at PRoBono, who worked overnight creating campaigns for worthy causes, with its Impact Communications Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n BUTV’s Good Morning BU<\/a> won a prestigious Silver Telly award, honoring the best in local and regional video and television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n COM student journalists produced stories with national and local impact: an investigation for Good Morning America and ProPublica<\/a> of judges who did not recuse when facing potential appearances of impropriety; a story for the Associated Press<\/a> about Congressional members traveling the globe with family members paid by private interest groups; and a six-part series for Boston NBC 10<\/a> exploring the troubled state of Massachusetts police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Julian Zhu and Andrew Burke-Stevenson won for spot news at the College Photographer of the Year awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kairen Shi and Iraj Chaudhry\u2019s campaign for Fanta received three coveted pencils at the Young Ones<\/a> advertising awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 44th annual Redstone Film Festival<\/a> celebrated student work in film and screenwriting for a near-capacity crowd of families and friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reporting for ProPublica, Kristen Berg (COM\u201911) and colleagues won a Pulitzer and other major journalism awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bill Fine (COM’77) was inducted to Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alexa Sudarto (COM’23) won the Silver at Young Lions Indonesia<\/a>, recognizing top digital advertising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Four COM grads received nominations for Writers Guild Awards<\/a>: Julia Cox, Benny Safdie, Felipe Torres Medina and Rob Turbovsky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ABC News multi-platform reporter Em Nguyen (COM’15) won BU\u2019s Young Alumni Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two COM alums \u2013 Alex Cooper (COM\u201917) and Howard Stern (COM\u201976) \u2013 scored interviews with Kamala Harris<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adweek named Vanessa de Beaumont<\/a> (COM\u201917) of the ad agency Mischief to the magazine\u2019s annual Creative 100 list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n COM welcomed new department chairs: Craig Shepherd<\/a> for Film and Television and Sung-Un Yang<\/a> for Mass Communication, Advertising and Public Relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maria Elizabeth Grabe<\/a> joined as the inaugural Dalton Family Professor in New or Emerging Media and Division of Emerging Media Studies director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Michelle Amazeen<\/a> and Sung-Un Yang<\/a> were listed among the top 2% most highly cited scholars, according to the annual Stanford University survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Greg Marinovich<\/a> launched a new summer course<\/a> in Padua, Italy, for students aspiring to report in conflict zones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n David Abel<\/a> produced two documentaries, In The Whale and Inundation District<\/a>, each touring the film circuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n COM’s Roy Grundmann<\/a> received a Fulbright Award<\/a> to serve as visiting faculty at Karl Franzens University in Austria \u2013 the first faculty member so awarded since 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Local USA, hosted by Tina McDuffie<\/a>, won a Webby with Retro Report for the episode, \u201cGenerations Stolen<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The International Communication Association recognized AnneMarie McClain<\/a> and her co-author with a Top Faculty Paper Award, and Kathryn Coduto with an Emerging Scholar Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPooja, Sir<\/a>,\u201d a new feature film by COM\u2019s Deepak Rauniyar<\/a>, was featured at the prestigious Venice International Film Festival before its U.S. debut later in the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n COM faculty were busy with podcasting. 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FACULTY<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Mariette DiChristina
Dean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"