Mike Beaudet

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Global experience helps yield collegiate Emmy awards for Northeastern video journalists

A video package on Panama and a segment on Northeastern’s response to the pandemic were among the winning entries that propelled students to four Emmy awards. A TikTok-like demand for visual content is fueling a rise in video storytelling.

by Peter Ramjug June 8, 2021

Scenes from a broadcast during Mike Beaudet’s newsroom class held in the media studio in Shillman Hall on April 18, 2017. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

Here’s how local TV news could save the 2020 election

Journalists and the public criticized the way news outlets covered the 2016 election, and they sought to fix coverage problems for 2020. But for all this hand-wringing, the solution in 2020 could be deceptively simple, say two journalism professors at Northeastern: Improve local TV news.

by Molly Callahan February 15, 2019

Students dig through casino-related crimes

Mike Beaudet, who teaches in the School of Journalism, treats his investigative reporting course like a newsroom. His students’ investigation of casino-related crimes in Springfield, Massachusetts, recently aired on WCVB-TV.

by Sophia Fox-Sowell December 13, 2018

A child holds a Cuban flag marking the 59th anniversary of the arrival of Fidel Castro and his rebel army in Regla, on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba, on Monday, Jan. 8, 2018. Castro and his rebels arrived in Havana via caravan on Jan. 8, 1959, after toppling dictator Fulgencio Batista. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Northeastern students went where other journalists can’t. Now a Boston TV station will tell their stories from Cuba.

Journalists are rare in Cuba, so 18 Northeastern students went to Havana this spring to report the island’s untold stories. One of Boston’s local TV stations will share what they uncovered in a special screening of their work on Friday.

by Emily Arntsen September 14, 2018

Journalism students’ investigative reporting leads to Emmy Award

A team of Northeastern journalism students contributed substantially to investigative news reports that won a New England Emmy Award earlier this month. “The student contributions were significant and made these investigations possible,” said professor and WCVB reporter Mike Beaudet. “It really is experiential learning at its best.”

by Joe O'Connell June 14, 2016

Global experience helps yield collegiate Emmy awards for Northeastern video journalists

Here’s how local TV news could save the 2020 election

Students dig through casino-related crimes

Northeastern students went where other journalists can’t. Now a Boston TV station will tell their stories from Cuba.

Journalism students’ investigative reporting leads to Emmy Award

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