Broadcast news reporter Temi Adeleye MA’17 admits she’s put herself in harm’s way for the pursuit of stories. For example, last fall she covered a heated confrontation—without colleagues—between Sons of Confederate Soldiers and Black Lives Matter supporters.
Emerson’s Common Collective is just that — Emersonians using their common interests for a collective purpose: Applying their communication skills to advance the goals of Emerson organizations as well as non-profits outside the college.
Emerson students and faculty are a driving force behind Team Harmony, a global movement to eradicate hate.
Since hosting high school radio shows, Katleen Francois ’13 knew she wanted to become a media mogul. Having recently launched her own business, she returned this year to Emerson College and the Launch Bootcamp to hone her entrepreneurial chops.
Last January, Madison Umina ‘20 envisioned a marketing internship at some exciting location during the summer of 2020. Instead, she reported in from home, winning a pitch competition to Fortune 500 companies along the way.
Lu Ann Reeb wondered how changes brought on by the pandemic would impact students soon to enter the world. So she teamed up with colleagues to create a skills-building seminar.
The first ever graduating cohort in Speech@Emerson, Emerson’s online master’s degree program in speech-language pathology, recognize their historic milestone during a virtual celebration on Aug. 23, 2020.
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Instead of gathering Emersonians and mediamakers from around the world in Austria this year, the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change will host a series of free and public virtual workshops this fall, beginning with Protest, Pandemic & Power: Media Literacies, Storytelling and Global Futures on Sept. 24.
Amid a global pandemic, School of Communication students took on a range of communication summer internships — formative experiences spent working with major league sport teams, government agencies, nonprofits, production companies, and more.
Meet Emerson’s new SOC Faculty member for Fall 2020
