Jason K. Lind

BU COM

Assorted graduate work from my time at Boston University’s School of Communication.

  • The path of the American sports columnist runs through Boston

    This is my graduate thesis for a master’s degree from Boston University’s College of Communication. Massive thanks to everyone who helped me out with it – specifically Bob Ryan, Paul Flannery, Eric Johnson, Eric Bowman, Steve Hirsch, Andrew Vazzano, Matt Cerrone, Nick Hansen and Professor Dick Lehr. Bob Ryan and Bill Simmons are two of…

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  • Bob Ryan on what it takes to do his job, his favorite columnists, and Bill Simmons

    While putting together my graduate thesis at Boston University, I initially set out to address two broad questions: 1. What is a sports column, and 2. What was a sports column? Bob Ryan, a legendary sportswriter for the Boston Globe who does television appearances on ESPN’s Around the Horn, was gracious enough to help me. Unsurprisingly, he gave…

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  • The heart of an Irish pub

    This was the first piece I wrote for a long-form journalism class at Boston U.   Above the door of one bar in Boston reads a perplexing manifesto: “There’s no place on earth like the world.”  Through the threshold is the place that Boston Magazine has voted the best Irish pub in Boston four consecutive…

  • Incalculably risky business

    I’ve unintentionally kept this blog blank for a while.  Here’s the final story I wrote for a graduate long-form journalism class at Boston University.  I feel it’s as worthy of my first post as anything I have.  This should mark a period of more frequent updates. When mixed martial arts world champion Georges St. Pierre…

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