Department of Journalism News

M. Lee Pelton named 12th President of Emerson College

M. Lee Pelton, president of Willamette University and a former dean at Colgate University and Dartmouth College, will assume office July 1, 2011.

Emersonians Bring Home Emmys

Eric Drysdale ’93 and Joe Celli ’91 recently won 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards. Drysdale won for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music, or Comedy Series for his work as a writer on The Colbert Report episode #5076 (in Iraq). Celli won for Outstanding Art Direction for Variety, Music, or Nonfiction Programming for his work as art director for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards.

New Faculty Members Bring a Wealth of Experience to Emerson

What do a Guggenheim fellow, a Kant philosopher, a former staff writer for the New York Times, the screenwriter for Gangs of New York, and a Frederick Douglass Doctoral Scholar have in common? They are all joining the Emerson faculty this fall.

Like father like son for Emerson broadcasters

Adam Harding ’08 landed a reporting job at WMUR-TV in New Hampshire which is the sister station to his father, Ed Harding's ’75, WCVB-Boston station.

Ted Gup chronicles lessons learned working a summer job

Ted Gup, the chair and a professor of the Journalism department, wrote an op-ed piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Leccese discussed social media use on WGBH-FM

Assistant Professor Mark Leccese talked about the use of social media in political campaigns on the Callie Crossley Show on WGBH-FM (89.7) on Tuesday, June 15.

Doug Struck wins award for story on carbon offsets fraud

Emerson Journalist-in-Residence Doug Struck recently won the April Sidney Award for his six-part series in The Christian Science Monitor titled “Blowing Smoke.”

Emerson Independent Video Wins a Boston/New England Emmy

Emerson student group Emerson Independent Video (EIV) won the James Thistle Student Production Emmy Award at the 33rd Boston/New England Emmy Awards banquet at Gillette Stadium at Patriot Place May 22.