The BEA Festival and Competitions provide a national refereed exhibition of faculty and student creative activities and is a national showcase for their work.

The “World Press Photo” multimedia website project, completed by Visual Journalism Professors Loup Langton, Jim Virga, Kim Grinfeder and retired Professor Lelen Robert, won Best of Category and Best of Festival for faculty in the 2008 BEA Festival of Media Arts.

“Witnessing History – Election 2008 at the West Grove” won first place in the Interactive Multimedia Student Group category. “It is an honor when our students win a prestigious award, but the real reward is that we were able to give a voice to so many people,” said Professor Rich Beckman about the multimedia website created to document Miami’s historic West Grove community on Election Day 2008.

Senior print journalism major Greg Linch’s entry “Fish at Bay” won third place in the Interactive Multimedia Individual Competition. “Fish at Bay,” a collaboration among the School’s spring 2008 interactive storytelling class, tells the story of the decline of fishing stock around Biscayne Bay, FL through photographs, video, information graphics and a series of five in-depth stories. 

For more information about the BEA Awards, visit: http://www.beaweb.org