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Photographer Carol Guzy and master lecturer of journalism Greg Marinovich talk during a Nov. 1 event at Boston University. Guzy won the The Hugo Shong Lifetime Journalism Achievement Award, presented by the College of Communication to journalists with “the highest quality of reporting and analysis.” HOLLY GUSTAVSEN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

COM honors esteemed photojournalist Carol Guzy with Hugo Shong Award

Nikhil Gupta November 6, 2023
Four-time Pulitzer prize winner, photojournalist Carol Guzy accepted her Hugo Shong award for lifetime achievement, presented by COM on Nov. 1.
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‘Writing like my brain thinks’: Pulitzer Prize winner John Archibald visits BU as COM’s inaugural writer in residence

Emily Wyrwa April 24, 2023
“When you're in school, they tell you to find your voice,” John Archibald, Boston University's inaugural Writer in Residence at COM said. “I had no idea what that meant."
Boston University journalism professor Dick Lehr speaking about his newly published book “White Hot Hate” at Brookline Booksmith Wednesday. CLARE ONG/ DFP STAFF

BU professor showcases new book at Brookline Booksmith

Cassandra Dumay December 6, 2021
Professor of Journalism Dick Lehr read excerpts of his new book in Brookline last Wednesday.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Sincerely, Ally: Journalism — I love you, I love you not

Alexia Nizhny April 27, 2021
Journalism helped me overcome my fear of failure. I’m a better writer, artist and editor for it.

Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy snubs expose racial biases

Sophia Yakumithis February 18, 2021
Because of apparent racial biases, musicians have taken to social media to call out the Recording Academy’s decisions. One of the most well-known manifestations of this is in the career of Kendrick Lamar.
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Minority Report: Don’t defame our greatest president

Lincoln Son Currie February 11, 2021
If you consider Lincoln’s entire career, you’ll see he wasn’t a problematic president and an entirely bad man — certainly not one unworthy of having a school named after him. 
The work of Boston University alumnus Pete Souza, the White House photographer for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, will be on display in the Howard Thurman Center starting Feb. 7. COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Pete Souza photo exhibit expected to unveil Friday at HTC

Emma Lindsey February 6, 2020
A photography exhibit featuring work by BU alumnus Pete Souza, the chief official White House photographer for U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, is expected to be unveiled at the Howard Thurman Center Feb. 7.
Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Poet Laureate Rita Dove looks into the distance as reads her poetry to a crowded room in Mugar Library. PHOTO BY CAROLYN KOMATSOULIS/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Pulitzer-winning poet Rita Dove recites poetry at BU

Ben Rabin October 7, 2016

Boston University’s Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center hosted this fall’s Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading Thursday evening, a biannual affair that invites renowned poets from across the...

Mike Rezendes speaks at a talk held by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center as part of its Friends Speaker Series Tuesday night in Metcalf Hall. PHOTO BY SOFI LAURITO/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Award-winning journalist Mike Rezendes talks “Spotlight,” journalism

Caroline Hitesman March 2, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCxiwjmEprs Mike Rezendes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe reporter and Boston University Class of 1978 graduate, spoke to members of the BU community and the public...

Investigative journalist Bob Woodward, left, discusses his novel "The Last of the President's Men" during a conversation moderated by David Gergen at the First Parish Church in Cambridge on Tuesday night. PHOTO BY SARAH SILBIGER/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Bob Woodward calls for clear-watered, open-gated politics

Samantha J. Gross October 21, 2015

Bob Woodward, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who broke the Watergate scandal with colleague Carl Bernstein for The Washington Post in 1972, visited Cambridge Tuesday to promote his...

PHOTO BY EMILY ZABOSKI/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

TAMOLA: The End

Katie Tamola December 3, 2014

Grad school is so strange. I’ve laughed, I’ve cried, I’ve had 13 cups of coffee in a 24-hour timeframe all in the past year and a half. I don’t know how any of you undergraduate students juggle...

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RYAN: Part-Time Pay, Full Time Professors

Sara Ryan September 30, 2014

In January, I walked into the basement lecture hall in the College of Arts and Sciences for my first class of the semester. My instructor was not on RateMyProfessor.com, and no one had heard of him. I...

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