The Berkeley Beacon
Student newspaper | |
Format | Broadsheet |
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Founded | February 13, 1947 |
Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
Website | www |
The Berkeley Beacon is the
In 2012, the Beacon redesigned its
History
The first issue of The Berkeley Beacon was published on February 1, 1947, under the direction of editor-in-chief Paul Mundt.
The Beacon has contributed to several student movements at the college, including the first student demonstration in Emerson history in 1968. It published a letter from the college president Richard Chapin decrying the Vietnam War. In 1977, an editorial in The Beacon pointed out a number of inaccuracies in a college report which was attempting to secure accreditation from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. In 1997, The Beacon broke a story about a female student's on-campus sexual assault, which the administration had failed to address.[2]
Notable alumni
- Morton Dean, television correspondent and news anchor for CBS Evening News and Good Morning America
- Ben Collins, media and disinformation reporter for NBC News
- Brendan McCarthy, investigative editor for
- Dan Bigman, former business editor of The New York Times and managing editor of Forbes
- Matt Porter, Boston Bruins beat writer for The Boston Globe
- Diti Kohli, business reporter for The Boston Globe and "Spotlight" team contributor[5]
- Andrew Brinker, housing reporter for The Boston Globe and "Spotlight" team contributor[5]
- Tori Bedford, Emmy-nominated reporter for WGBH Radio
- Molly Driscoll, former culture editor for The Christian Science Monitor
- Cyndi Roy Gonzalez, former communications director for Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey
- Nathan Hurst, political editor for C-SPAN
- Chris Van Buskirk, state house reporter for the Boston Herald
- Dylan Rossiter, publisher for consumer products State House News Service
- Parker Purifoy, labor reporter for Bloomberg Law
References
- ^ Phelps, Andrew. "Emerson College student paper completes a fully responsive, mobile-friendly redesign". Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
- ^ a b "Celebrating 73 years of The Berkeley Beacon". The Berkeley Beacon. February 6, 2020.
- ^ "Berkeley Weather Beacon".
- ^ Baez, Valentina. "Emerson alum Brendan McCarthy named new Globe Spotlight editor". The Berkeley Beacon.
- ^ a b Arsenault, Mark (Oct 25, 2023). "In towns like Milton, home prices are a threat to prosperity. But they don't have to be". The Boston Globe.