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Falling for New York Fashion Week: a brief history | It’s All Been Done Before

Erica Schwartz February 5, 2025
And so I remain fervently infatuated with the Council for Fashion Designers of America’s official Fashion Week and deeply enchanted by its mystique. I guess you can say it’s a bit of a toxic romance — one-sided, with one party granting the other not even a minute of their time.
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What to expect from campus news

Talia Lissauer June 9, 2022
The Daily Free Press has a campus news section which solely covers news, events, and investigative stories at BU.
Storrow Drive at night. Lifestyle editor Katrina reflects on her Fall semester, grateful for the unexpected moments and hidden blessings that emerged between her rigid schedule and plentiful responsibilities. KATRINA LIU/ DFP STAFF

What day is it?

Katrina Liu December 9, 2021
Within a structured routine, there exist pockets of time where the love of life exists.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: The BUPD promised us the perception of safety — not its reality

Editors December 8, 2021
If we are ever to achieve true public safety, we can no longer rely on the BUPD — a violent institution with an egregious history and present of violence and racism.
Spookiest Things About Being a Journalist | Is It OK If I Record?

Spookiest Things About Being a Journalist | Is It OK If I Record?

Angela Yang October 31, 2021

Happy Halloween! Sarah and Angela constantly gush over how much they love journalism, but of course, it's not always so fun and exciting. This week, the pair point out some of the scariest parts of...

Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: You cannot “clean up” a humanitarian crisis, Mayor Janey, Sheriff Tompkins

Editors October 28, 2021
Boston’s new plan to forcibly remove people from their living encampments in the area near Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard is based on criminalization — an approach that may make things worse.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Harry Styles, Bad Art Friend, and fiction

Editors October 14, 2021
If pens are as mighty as surgical instruments, it is worth weighing their reference points.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Recent settlement from City of Boston emblematic of systemic issues with policing

Editors October 13, 2021
How can we expect actual change from the Boston Police Department if they can pay out a million-dollar settlement to a man they permanently injured without an apology?
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: External support and internal changes can #SaveStudentNewsrooms

Editors April 26, 2021
Rescuing student journalism means saving us from culturally disappearing into the folds of society.
Emma Moneuse/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Toxic work environments at student newspapers are a direct result of the journalism industry

Editors March 3, 2021
As a consequence of being more open and understanding of students’ workloads — and perhaps in the future, being able to pay them — school newspapers can outgrow the journalism industry by being more inclusive and equitable.
Boston University’s College of Communication. Alumni from COM and the College of Fine Arts working in late-night television shared career advice with film and television students at a virtual panel on Friday hosted by Sheila Sitomer and the COM “Cinematheque” series. ELIZA SHAW/ DFP FILE

Late-night TV producers share words of wisdom with BU film and TV students

Caroline Bowden November 19, 2020
Clips from late-night television often spread on social media after they air, but the process of getting these programs on TV takes a group of people who know how to get their audiences laughing.
Jun LI/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Social media lifestyle is tainted with toxicity

Editors November 13, 2020
But behind the facade of business-savvy, carefree young adults is an industry filled with a deeply-bred toxicity that favors shallowness and ingenuity.
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