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Emerson was one of only 10 journalism programs in the country to be awarded funding through the 2018 Challenge Fund for Journalism Education Innovation – a program of the world’s … Continue Reading Emerson Receives Grant to Support Journalism, Civic Engagement
Sam Cornish, former poet laureate of Boston and a faculty member at Emerson College for more than two decades, died Monday, August 20, at the age of 82. “A lived … Continue Reading Remembering Poet Laureate and Emerson Faculty Sam Cornish
This year, new Emerson College students of color were invited to attend a pre-orientation weekend, where they will learn about campus resources, begin transitioning to life on a college campus, … Continue Reading Emerson Offers Pre-Orientation to Incoming Students of Color
Emerson Launch Director Sanjay Pothen holds an Echo Dot, part of a Voice@Emerson initiative being supported by an Amazon Alexa Innovation Fellowship. Photo/Molly Loughman Emerson College is one of 18 colleges … Continue Reading Amazon Fellowship to Help Emerson Innovate with Voice
Students in Emerson’s low-residency MFA in Writing for Film and Television program were treated to a master class in screenwriting from the creator of some of the most off-beat, creative … Continue Reading Words of Wisdom from Repo Man Writer Alex Cox
Professor Robert Todd, an avant-garde filmmaker and sound and visual artist who taught at Emerson for 18 years, was being remembered this week by the Boston film community as an … Continue Reading Visionary Film Artist Rob Todd Remembered
Eight Emerson students and two faculty members met students, scholars, and researchers from around the world in Salzburg, Austria, this summer to “reimagine journalism” amid a climate of fake news … Continue Reading Emerson Students Envision a New Kind of Journalism in Austria
Performing Arts Associate Professor Magda Romanska had her essay about the late Polish dramatist/writer/cartoonist Sławomir Mrożek published in the LA Review of Books blog. The essay, “The Comic Frame of Sławomir Mrożek: Or, How to Tell if … Continue Reading Romanska Publishes Essay on Polish Playwright in LARB
The Boston Globe asked newspapers around the country to join them Thursday, August 16, in editorializing against Trump’s characterization of the press as an “enemy of the people.” Hundreds of … Continue Reading Emerson Journalism Faculty on Globe’s Defense of #FreePress
Writing, Literature and Publishing Professor Megan Marshall’s most recent biography, Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017) was shortlisted for a 2018 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award. … Continue Reading Marshall a Phi Beta Kappa Book Award Finalist for Elizabeth Bishop Biography