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Ready for the Oscars? Watch & join in on our liveblog on Sunday!

Do you love the Oscars? We love the Oscars! And this year, WBRU is sharing the love. Join us on Sunday, when we’ll be liveblogging the whole shebang, from the pointless red carpet pageantry to the epic showdown between exes James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow for some of the top awards.
Previously: WBRU liveblogs the 2010 [...]

Happy New Year from WBRU News!

That headline says it all. But just in case you weren’t paying attention: Happy New Year! We’ll be back from our winter hiatus soon. See you then!
In the meantime, be sure to check out the music blog’s picks for the best tracks, albums and artists of 2009. Also, if you’re up, tune in to [...]

Merry Christmas from WBRU News

Some websites would bore you with a thoughtful, heart-string-tugging holiday message in this space. We have Christmas-y YouTube videos. And yet, people wonder why our traffic keeps growing.
If you celebrate Christmas, have a safe and happy one. And an early Happy New Year to all. We can’t wait to see what the next decade has [...]

The WBRU News Tipline: now professional-ish

You might have noticed a certain wood-paneled button hanging out in the sidebar lately. Well, in case you for some reason only noticed the texture and not the bold text emblazoning the button, you should know it’s for our new and improved Tipline! No, we’re not accepting your loose change – although that might explain [...]

Be our fan (fan us?) on Facebook!

Hello, Internet! You might already be subscribing to our RSS feed or following us on Twitter, but WBRU News now has a fan page on Facebook. Check it out, become a fan, and invite your friends. The fan page is still in its infancy, so pardon our dust, but we’re open to suggestions for how [...]

Local college students! Want to intern for WBRU News this summer?

If the answer to the above question is yes, we’d love to hear from you. Send a note to news@wbru.com for more information about this year’s summer internship possibilities.

New guestblogger: Scoop 44

The WBRU News team is big on local coverage, but we all care what’s going on outside of New England, right? …Right?
Well, even if you’re not plugged in to the news coming out of Washington, D.C., the reporters at Scoop44.com are. They’re all current college students, and are covering the new presidency from their respective [...]

Check out “Tearin’ It Off” with Mirage and OhMegan

You might have heard our Entertainment News reporter Mirage on the air, but now she’s got a cool new show on the web.
“Tearin’ It Off” is a collaborative effort with local sex expert (sexpert?) Megan Andelloux, founder of OhMegan.com. In each episode, Mirage and Megan answer questions about sexual health and activity, and if you [...]