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Kara Mihm

Sophomore journalist at Boston University

About Me

At my core, I’m a conversationalist. I find myself drawn to the unspoken narratives that every individual carries throughout their life. And, equally, I find myself driven to tell those stories in a manner that means something to the people reading and listening.

I love chatting. I love creating an environment where people feel comfortable and heard. I love producing a story that brings peoples' words to life in a way that reflects their trust in me as a storyteller.

My eagerness to learn, along with my involvement in on-campus news-gathering entities such as Good Morning BU as a producer and The Wire as a reporter, displays an interest in advancing my knowledge through hands-on experiences, professional advice, and trial and error.

Featured Articles

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‘Catastrophic flooding’ forces water rescues in Vermont after 1-in-1,000-year rainfall event | CNN

Emergency responders sprang into action early Tuesday to rescue residents in flooded areas of northeast Vermont after a 1-in-1,000-year rainfall event created a surge of dangerous floodwaters for the second time in a matter of weeks.



Ten swift-water rescue teams completed about two dozen rescues in Caledonia and Essex counties, some of the hardest-hit areas, where flash flood emergencies warning of “catastrophic flooding” were issued and the storm unleashed inches of rainf...
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Cape Cod mass stranding of more than 140 dolphins confirmed to be largest in US history | CNN

The stranding of more than 140 dolphins off Cape Cod last month has been confirmed as the largest mass stranding of the mammals in United States history, animal rescuers say.



A final review of data and aerial imagery of the mass stranding event near Wellfleet, Massachusetts, believed to have begun June 28, revealed 146 dolphins were involved, the International Fund for Animal Welfare announced Thursday.



Wellfleet is located on Cape Cod’s northeastern...
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26-year-old hiker drowns after slipping into rapid waters at Glacier National Park | CNN

A hiker drowned Sunday at Glacier National Park in Montana after slipping into fast-moving water, being swept over several small waterfalls, and getting pinned underwater for several minutes, according to officials.



The woman, identified as 26-year-old Gillian Tones, was visiting the park from Pennsylvania, the National Park Service said in a news release Tuesday.



Tones diverted from a hiking trail near St. Mary Falls late Sunday and walked down to V...
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Woman files wrongful death lawsuit against Mexican resort travel companies after husband was electrocuted in hot tub | CNN

A Texas woman has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against two Mexican resort travel companies, seeking more than $1 million, after her husband was electrocuted in a resort hot tub earlier this month.



Lizzette Zambrano, a resident of El Paso County, Texas, accuses the “operators, managers, and possessors” of the Sonoran Sea Resort in Sonora, Mexico, of being “grossly negligent,” which led to her injury and the death of her husband, Jorge Guillen, according to the lawsuit. Sh...

Find your people with Popple: an app launched by BU students – The Daily Free Press

Across the Charles River from where Mark Zuckerberg launched the ubiquitous Facebook, two Boston University students have embarked on a similar path by designing a platform that cultivates student connectivity.

After meeting at SPLASH when they were freshmen, Remi Chester and Prianna Sharan quickly began to notice the difficulty of making plans and finding friends as busy college students.

“We felt that the whole system of finding things to do on campus and joining clubs could have been made a

Journalism professor Meghan Irons teaches students the importance of amplifying unheard voices – The Daily Free Press

Before she became an award-winning journalist at the Boston Globe, Meghan Irons’ teenage dream was to become a teacher or writer. In joining Boston University’s journalism department this spring, Irons’ teenage self can finally tick off that second box.

Early in her education, Irons said she was always “interested in other people’s stories.”

“I was a shy student,” Irons said. “I liked to read, I used to write in my journal, write poems and things like that. So I knew it was one of those two th
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Champions of Two Decades

Though Sarah Mulligan and Lexi Sundgren swam for NA nearly forty years apart from each other, their lanes converged earlier this month.

Crushing the forty year-old Women’s 500 yard freestyle record, Lexi Sundgren displays the same characteristics as Sarah Mulligan who set it in 1982.

The year was 1982. Michael Jackson dropped the earth-shattering album Thriller, Prince William was brought into the world, and NASH senior Sarah Durstein set a record-breaking 500 freestyle time that would last at
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One Step from the Podium

It is sarcastically called “The Fourth-Place Finisher Club,” but for the world’s best athletes, finishing without a medal can lead to years of devastation.

After his second fourth-place finish at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Andrei Minakov lay paralyzed in pain and disappointment.

That fatal word described the performance of 339 athletes at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. The blink of an eye or the fraction of an inch separated the top world medalists from the empty-handed fourth-place finishers in

Watch My Most Recent Package

Authors are fighting a new enemy in the literary world, AI. A recent report showed that large companies are using books to train generative AI systems. The problem? No one told the authors. I went out with Good Morning BU’s co-anchor, Sydney Topf, to learn more about the technology working to rewrite these authors’ stories.

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