By: Joe Strupp Tom Fiedler, former executive editor of The Miami Herald, has been named dean of Boston University?s College of Communication, effective June 1, BU Provost David K. Campbell announced in a release.
Fiedler earned a master?s degree in journalism from the university in 1971 and recently chaired an external review committee that conducted an overall analysis of the communication's college, the university added.
?I cannot tell you how thrilled I am about this,? Fiedler, 62, said in a statement. ?It was at COM that I learned the skills that set me off on a career in journalism and gave me the appreciation of what that profession meant.?
Fiedler was selected from 75 applicants reviewed by a search committee composed of BU faculty and two students, the release added. He assumes the post held by Dean ad interim Tobe Berkovitz, a current associate professor of communication, who was appointed in September 2006 after the resignation of Dean John Schulz.
Boston University President Robert A. Brown said of Fiedler: ?I am optimistic that Tom will lead us into the innovative world of communications in the 21st century."
A U.S. Merchant Marine Academy graduate, Fiedler spent 30 years at the Herald, serving as an investigative reporter, a political columnist, editorial page editor, and finally, the executive editor from 2001 to 2007.
In 1987, after presidential hopeful Gary Hart challenged journalists who questioned his marital fidelity to ?follow me around,? Fiedler and other Herald reporters did just that -- and exposed Hart?s campaign-killing affair with a Miami model.
"As the newspaper?s executive editor, Fiedler was a stickler for journalism ethics, particularly after reporters working for The Herald?s Spanish-language sister publication, El Nuevo Herald, were caught moonlighting for a US-government-owned, anti-Castro news service in 2006," the BU release added.
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