A visit to WBUR with Sascha Pfeiffer

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3.1.2011

For Monday’s Impact Journalism class, Roy Harris took us to WBUR’s St. Paul Street studio on the BU’s campus, where the class was treated to a discussion with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Sascha Pfeiffer, host of All Things Considered and Radio Boston.

In class we’ve been studying the Globe’s Pulitzer winning reports on the Catholic Church’s clergy sex abuse scandal, and despite the haunting overtones of adolescent molestation that blanket each class, it hasn’t been that big of a downer. In fact, we’ve met some valuable journalists. The entire Globe Spotlight team who earned the paper its Public Service Pulitzer have stopped in, and we’ve gone to them, hitting up the Spotlight team’s office on Morrissey Boulevard last Monday, and Sascha at the studios this week.

Tragedy struck and I was prevented from making it to the Globe last week. This week, I was not going to miss another rare opportunity.

I brought a camera with me, and captured gold when Sascha pulled out the “Wheel of Misfortune” used by Click n’ Clack, the Tapper Brothers, in their weekly program “Car Talk.” I’ve always assumed they recorded in Cambridge, having seen “The Law Offices of Dewey, Cheatem and Howe” in Harvard Square.

We also discussed news stuff, got a tour of the newsroom and put a face to Bianca Vazquez Toness. Best of all, I live all of eight minutes from the studio, and the B-line is right there.

Here are a few pics from the trip. I’ll post some good quotes and my notes on here in the near future. Sascha was great – extremely engaging and interesting.

Portraits of distinguished NPR hosts. And a mop handle. If I remember correctly, this is a silk print that was given to WBUR as a gift from Polynesia. If there is more of a story to it than that I wasn't able to get it. The Newsroom. Share this: Facebook X Like Loading…

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