(2006) Bernice Buresh

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(2006) Bernice Buresh

Bernice Buresh began her journalistic career with the King’s Page. While a student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, she was an editor of the UWM Post and a reporter and columnist for the weekly Milwaukee Times. After graduating in 1963, she became a reporter for the Milwaukee Sentinel. She then went to work for Newsweek, where she served as a Correspondent in the Chicago Bureau, Chief of the Boston bureau, and Congressional Correspondent in Washington, D.C.

Ms. Buresh was an Associate Professor of Journalism at Boston University; a Professional Journalism Fellow at Stanford University; a Fellow and Lecturer at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government; a Visiting Scholar in Women’s Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; an Adjunct Associate Professor of American Studies at Brandeis University in Massachusetts; and a visiting faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Graduate School of Nursing. She is co-author of the award-winning book, From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public.

Ms. Buresh is also a founder and a past president of the Writers’ Room of Boston, Inc., a nonprofit corporation that provides affordable workspace for writers. Recently she has begun writing fiction. She is married and has an adult son. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she engages in her favorite hobby—tap dancing—as often as possible.

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