Students held a March For Our Lives rally on Saturday in the Boston Common, speaking at the Parkman Bandstand, calling for stricter gun laws in the U.S. Among the speakers was student CJ Hoekenga, a survivor of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
Students from a WLP class taught by former editor of the Globe Magazine and faculty Susanne Althoff, in collaboration with the media entity, had their writing highlighted on the homepage of the Boston Globe and in Globe Magazine.
Roy Kamada, Chair of the Writing, Literature & Publishing department, spoke to local PBS station GBH about independent bookstores re-emerging across the U.S. Among the newer ones in the Boston area include Beacon Hill Books & Cafe, Porter Square Books: Boston Edition, Posman Books, Rozzie Bound, and East End Books in the Seaport.
Visual and Media Arts professor John Craig Freeman, who had both Daniel Kwan ’10 and Daniel Scheinert ’09 as students, spoke to local news outlets about the multiple Oscar winners for WHDH, WCVB, WBUR, WGBH and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.
Communication Studies senior affiliated faculty and BIGfish PR CEO David Gerzof Richard contributed to an NBC Boston piece regarding the new trend of deinfluencing, or telling people what not to purchase, on social media platforms.
Daniel Kwan ’10 and Daniel Scheinert ’09 continued their awards season success over the weekend, winning seven categories.
The annual Directors Issue, now in its fifth year, highlights some of a given year’s most exciting directors, including multiple Oscar nominees.
Hingham resident and Writing, Literature, and Publishing professor Jerald Walker is interviewed by the South Shore newspaper The Patriot Ledger, as he is working on his next essay collection and received multiple honors for his most recent compilation of essays, How to Make a Slave.
House writes about why Carter came to national prominence while he was governor of Georgia.
The genre is doing well on streaming platforms, but not at the box office.
