David Ellison, the owner of Paramount Skydance, a newly formed mass media and entertainment company, is making a bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, according to a Sept. 11 New York Times article. Faculty and students in the Department of Film and Television at the Boston University College of Communication said the merger between these two massive enterprises may transform the media industry substantially.

When graduate and postgraduate students run into trouble turning their ideas into businesses, they can now look to a new workshop series by Boston University that aims to guide these hopeful entrepreneurs...