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https://soundcloud.com/julia-maruca-502898647/disappearing-boston-episode-3-boston-university?in=julia-maruca-502898647/sets/disappearing-boston The third and final episode of Disappearing Boston explores Boston University's history of climate change and future plans to adapt.
https://soundcloud.com/julia-maruca-502898647/disappearing-boston-episode-2-boston-harbor?in=julia-maruca-502898647/sets/disappearing-boston Episode 2 of Disappearing Boston explores the Boston Harbor area, especially the Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park.
https://soundcloud.com/julia-maruca-502898647/disappearing-boston-episode-1-belle-isle?in=julia-maruca-502898647/sets/disappearing-boston Episode 1 of Disappearing Boston explores the Belle Isle Marsh Reservation, the last remaining salt marsh in the city of Boston.
As a final blog post for the NewsTrack project, I decided to take a look at a story that aired on Morning Edition, WBUR’s flagship news magazine program. This piece opens with a paraphrased quote from Governor Baker explaining the upcoming changes, and then segues into reporting from WBUR reporter Quincy Walters to discuss the... Continue Reading →
https://soundcloud.com/julia-maruca-502898647/a-day-in-the-life-taking-care-of-penguins-at-the-new-england-aquarium Matt Samara is an aquarist at the New England Aquarium. In this interview, we get a sense of what his everyday work is like taking care of penguins, fish, and more. Check out the full interview here!
For this week’s blog, I took a look at the regular WBUR newsletter emails I get every day. The emails were fairly easy to sign up for--a prompt visible in multiple spots on the WBUR website directs you to input your email and sign up for the newsletter, and I did so earlier on in... Continue Reading →
For this week’s blog post, I decided to focus on Here & Now, WBUR’s flagship midday news show. Here & now is hosted by Tonya Mosley and Robin Young, and describes itself on the WBUR website as a show that “reflects the fluid world of news as it’s happening in the middle of the day,... Continue Reading →
One thing that really interests me about WBUR is the way that it, as a news outlet, combines audio and written stories as well as live and recorded stories. Before the Internet, you likely couldn’t easily go back and re-listen to an interview that had happened live on the air, but now that radio stations... Continue Reading →
For a primarily audio-based journalistic outlet, WBUR uses a lot of visuals and graphics to explain different topics. For my blog this week, I decided to take a deep dive into their regularly updating COVID-19 case count page, which is displayed prominently on the WBUR website’s main landing when you visit it. The first thing... Continue Reading →
From the beginning, I was interested and excited to explore WBUR’s coverage for my JO304 Newstrack blog. Audio journalism, in particular public radio, is the type of journalism I’m most interested in, and I had the chance to intern at Pittsburgh's NPR affiliate station, 90.5 WESA-FM, back in 2019, so I was interested to compare... Continue Reading →
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