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''The Daily Free Press'' is the independent student newspaper at Boston University. It is a digital-first publication with daily online content and a monthly print edition on Thursday during the academic year. ''The Daily Free Press'' is staffed by about 200 volunteer editors, writers, reporters and photographers. The editorial positions change on a semester-to-semester basis. The paper is governed by a board of former editors, who make up the Board of Directors of Back Bay Publishing Co., Inc., a Massachusetts non-profit. Commonly called the FreeP, ''The Daily Free Press'' began publishing May 5, 1970 in response to violent student protests on campus in the wake of the Kent State shootings. In the early 21st century, it is the longest-running, continuous publication at BU. Overview Until February 13, 2009, ''The Daily Free Press'' had published an issue every instructional day since its formation. Given increasingly tight finances for newspapers and declining advertising reve ...
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Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campus in Newbury, Vermont, before moving to Boston in 1867. The university now has more than 4,000 faculty members and nearly 34,000 students, and is one of Boston's largest employers. It offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, doctorates, and medical, dental, business, and law degrees through 17 schools and colleges on three urban campuses. The main campus is situated along the Charles River in Boston's Fenway-Kenmore and Allston, Massachusetts, Allston neighborhoods, while the Boston University Medical Campus is located in Boston's South End, Boston, South End neighborhood. The Fenway campus houses the Wheelock College of Education and Human Development, formerly Wheelock College, which merged with BU in 2018. BU is a member of the Bo ...
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Joseph T
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled '' Yūsuf''. In Persian, the name is "Yousef". The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Palestine Jews. In the Book of Genesis Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, and k ...
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Lisa Anne Auerbach
Lisa Anne Auerbach (born 1967 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American textile artist, Zine writer, photographer, best known for her knitting works with humorous political commentary. Education *MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, 1994 *BFA, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, 1990 Biography Born in 1967 in Ann Arbor, Michigan Auerbach currently resides in Los Angeles. Career Auerbach has been making knitted pieces since completing her undergraduate degree at the Art Center of Design in 1994. Photography was the discipline she studied for her MFA, however, due to lack of access to a darkroom, she used knitting as a cost-effective way to make art. Work Knit works, zines, newsletters and a 5-foot-tall magazine titled ''American Megazine'' are all part of her body of work. Her Knitting patterns are often created digitally and created with a knitting machine. "While Auerbach's slogans and signs are politically blunt, her humor infuses the wo ...
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2002 Pulitzer Prize
A listing of the Pulitzer Prize award winners for 2002: Journalism * Public Service: **''The New York Times'', for ''A Nation Challenged,'' a special section published regularly after the September 11th terrorist attacks on America, which coherently and comprehensively covered the tragic events, profiled the victims, and tracked the developing story, locally and globally. * Beat Reporting: ** Gretchen Morgenson of ''The New York Times'', for her trenchant and incisive Wall Street coverage. * Breaking News Photography **The staff of ''The New York Times'', for its consistently outstanding photographic coverage of the terrorist attack on New York City and its aftermath. * Breaking News Reporting **The staff of ''The Wall Street Journal'', for its comprehensive and insightful coverage, executed under the most difficult circumstances, of the terrorist attacks on New York City, which recounted the day's events and their implications for the future. * Commentary **Thomas Friedman of ''Th ...
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1999 Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes for 1999 were announced on April 12, 1999. Journalism awards *Public Service: **''The Washington Post'', for its series that identified and analyzed patterns of reckless gunplay by city police officers who had little training or supervision. * Breaking News Reporting: **Staff of ''The Hartford Courant'', for its clear and detailed coverage of a shooting rampage in which a Connecticut Lottery employee killed four supervisors, then himself. *Investigative Reporting: **Staff of ''The Miami Herald'', for its detailed reporting that revealed pervasive voter fraud in a city mayoral election, that was subsequently overturned. *Explanatory Reporting: **Richard Read, ''The Oregonian'', for vividly illustrating the domestic impact of the Asian economic crisis by profiling the local industry that exports frozen french fries. *Beat Reporting: **Chuck Philips and Michael A. Hiltzik, the ''Los Angeles Times'', for their stories on corruption in the entertainment industry, ...
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Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher, and is administered by Columbia University. Prizes are awarded annually in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$15,000 cash award (raised from $10,000 in 2017). The winner in the public service category is awarded a gold medal. Entry and prize consideration The Pulitzer Prize does not automatically consider all applicable works in the media, but only those that have specifically been entered. (There is a $75 entry fee, for each desired entry category.) Entries must fit in at least one of the specific prize categories, and cannot simply gain entrance for being literary or musical. Works can also be entered only in a maximum of two categories, ...
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Don Van Natta, Jr
Don, don or DON and variants may refer to: Places *County Donegal, Ireland, Chapman code DON *Don (river), a river in European Russia *Don River (other), several other rivers with the name *Don, Benin, a town in Benin *Don, Dang, a village and hill station in Dang district, Gujarat, India *Don, Nord, a ''commune'' of the Nord ''département'' in northern France *Don, Tasmania, a small village on the Don River, located just outside Devonport, Tasmania *Don, Trentino, a commune in Trentino, Italy *Don, West Virginia, a community in the United States *Don Republic, a temporary state in 1918–1920 *Don Jail, a jail in Toronto, Canada People Role or title *Don (honorific), a Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian title, given as a mark of respect *Don, a crime boss, especially in the Mafia , ''Don Konisshi'' (コニッシー) *Don, a resident assistant at universities in Canada and the U.S. *University don, in British and Irish universities, especially at Oxford, Cambridge, St And ...
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Bill O'Reilly (commentator)
William James O'Reilly Jr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American conservative commentator, journalist, author, and television host. O'Reilly's broadcasting career began during the late 1970s and 1980s, when he reported for local television stations in the United States and later for CBS News and ABC News. He anchored the tabloid television program ''Inside Edition'' from 1989 to 1995. O'Reilly joined the Fox News Channel in 1996 and hosted ''The O'Reilly Factor'' until 2017. ''The O'Reilly Factor'' had been the highest-rated cable news show for 16 years, and he was described by media analyst Howard Kurtz as "the biggest star in the 20-year history at Fox News" at the time of his ousting. He is the author of numerous books and hosted ''The Radio Factor'' (2002–2009). In early 2017, ''The New York Times'' reported that he and Fox News had paid five women approximately $13 million to settle various sexual misconduct lawsuits, which led to the network terminating O'Reilly' ...
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Michelle Mason
Michelle Mason Bizri is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, where she has taught since 2000. She has published numerous works in normative moral psychology, where her main contributions have been to defend the view that particular person-focused, esteem-based attitudes have a significant role to play in moral evaluation. Education and career Mason Bizri received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ... in 2001. Her doctoral thesis was entitled ''Moral Virtue and Reasons for Action''. Before receiving her doctorate, Mason Bizri accepted an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota. In 2002-2003, she accepted a position as Faculty Fellow in Harvard University's Program in Et ...
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Jeff Kline
Jeff Kline is an American film and television writer-producer and former television executive. He has been involved in more than 40 animated and live-action series and pilots, has received multiple Emmy nominations and wins. Early life Jeff Kline was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Kline graduated from Boston University's College of Communication in 1987. Career After graduating from Boston University, Kline interned at Roger Corman's Concorde/New Horizons and worked in feature development for Michael Shamberg and Harold Ramis's Ocean Pictures. He served as a television executive in Daytime Programming at NBC Entertainment for one year then spent five years at Columbia Pictures Television, eventually serving as the senior vice president of drama before transitioning into writing/producing at the suggestion of his first writing partner, Frank Lupo, co-creator of ''The A-Team'' and '' Wiseguy''. Between 1995 and 2006, he developed and/or produced the series: ''My Friends Ti ...
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San Francisco Chronicle
The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It was founded in 1865 as ''The Daily Dramatic Chronicle'' by teenage brothers Charles de Young and M. H. de Young, Michael H. de Young. The paper is owned by the Hearst Corporation, which bought it from the de Young family in 2000. It is the only major daily paper covering the city and county of San Francisco. The paper benefited from the growth of San Francisco and had the largest newspaper circulation on the West Coast of the United States by 1880. Like other newspapers, it experienced a rapid fall in circulation in the early 21st century and was ranked 18th nationally by circulation in the first quarter of 2021. In 1994, the newspaper launched the SFGATE website, with a soft launch in March and official launch November 3, 1994, including both content from the newspaper and other sources. "The Gate" as it was known at launch was the first large market newspaper ...
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Vivian Ho
Vivian Ho is a journalist working for the ''Guardian US''. Career Ho has worked for the west coast bureau of the ''Guardian US'' since 2018. Before that, she was a reporter for the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' for almost seven years, with a focus on crime and criminal justice. Prior to the ''Chronicle'', she worked for the ''Boston Globe'' and the ''Worcester Telegram and Gazette'' as a reporter, and has bylines in ''Topic'', ''San Francisco'' magazine, '' The Muse'', ''Bustle'' and ''Marie Claire''. In 2019, her first book, ''Those Who Wander: America's Lost Street Kids'', was published by Little A. Personal She was raised in New England. Controversy In 2009, Vivian Ho was profiled in her capacity as Editor-in-Chief of ''The Daily Free Press'' at Boston University. In September 2011, Ho achieved notoriety when she was one of several journalists arrested while covering a protest of Bay Area Rapid Transit. Ho was allegedly handcuffed after identifying herself as a journalis ...
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