News & Updates

Reporting on Religion Program-April 2

The School of Journalism is presenting a program to help reporters and future reporters learn about issues surrounding religion reporting. The event begins with the morning session at 11:45 a.m. in the Ballroom of the Curry Student Center. This session, titled "Religion in the News: What Future Reporters and Editors Need to Know," features Benjamin Hubbard, professor emeritus of comparative religion at California State University, Fullerton; Debra Mason, executive director of Religion Newswriters Association and director of the Center on Religion and the Professions, University of Missouri, Columbia; and Munir Shaika, executive director of the Institute of Religion and Civic Values, in California.

The afternoon session begins at 3 p.m. and features Michael Paulson, religion reporter at The Boston Globe. He was a member of a team from the Globe that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in public service reporting in 2003. This event is held in the Alumni Center's Paviliion, 6th floor, 600 Columbus Place.

Both sessions will be moderated by Stephen Burgard, director, School of Journalism.

For more information contact Professor Burgard at 617-373-3238.

New News Room

Journalism's new newsroom, 157 Holmes Hall, is open to all journalism students, between classes held there. Students can use the computers, sit and read, study or watch the new large-screen TVs. For available times check the schedule posted outside the newsroom.

J-School Students' Article Published in Globe

Journalism Graduate Students Jeff Kelly, and Candice Novak; and undergraduate student Maggie Kowalski had an article published in the Boston Globe, January 13. The article,"Courts strip elders of their independence," was written in Prof. Walter Robinson's Investigative Reporting class. The students' work was acknowledged in Poynter's "Romenseko," and in SPJs "News Gems."

Read the article in Boston.com.

New Graduate Concentration in
Journalism and Public Policy

The School of Journalism in partnership with the new School of Social Science, Urban Affairs and Public Policy is offering a new concentration in journalism and public policy. Other concentrations in the journalism graduate program are professional and research. The graduate journalism program is currently accepting applications for all three concentrations.

For more information contact Associate Professor Belle Adler, the graduate coordinator at 617-373-3221 or send an email at b.adler@neu.edu.

For more information on the School of Social Science, Urban Affairs and Public Policy visit the school's Website.

New Macs are In!

New Macintosh computers have arrived in the Mac Lab, 171 Holmes. For those of us who had to suffer through the past few years using the small screens, the new Macs, with their large screens are a welcome addition!

Students will need to log on using their myNeu user name and password.

Last updated: 1/29/08

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