New media students present “A DAY IN THE LIFE,” a series on Miami Herald visual reporters.
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CBS4 Executive Producer for Digital Media, Dave Game, tells UM students that colleges are not preparing journalists for the “new world.”
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By ADAM McCORMICK
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Hurricane walk-on never played football in high school. “I always dreamed of playing for the Hurricanes,” says sophomore Chris Hayes.

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New classes, professors and projects address the trend toward unified media technologies. The task for the school is to prepare students to work in a “new, brave world” that is still being defined.

School of Communication print graduate student Solange Reyner has been accepted into The New York Times Student Journalism Institute, a 10-day intense reporting program that brings together students and writers, editors, designers and photographers from The New York Times, The Boston Globe and Times Company Regional papers.

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Patrons fill the seats and a film flashes on. A drama unfolds for five minutes, and then an animation begins.

No, this is not a mistake. It’s The Miami Short Film Festival, co-sponsored this year by the School of Communication.

Click Here for a Map to the Theaters

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The UM Debate team will introduce high school and middle school students to the skills of debating during a special tournament Saturday, Nov. 17, at the School of Communication

The Miami-Dade Urban Debate League, which attracts students from schools in Miami-Dade County’s lower-income neighborhoods, will be held in Wolfson 2054, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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In a cramped office on the second floor of the Wolfson Building, a Tibetan archivist is creating a digital library that could bring more than 90,000 manuscripts, banners, and other artifacts into the homes of hundreds of millions of Buddhists worldwide.

Tenzin Sonam, a librarian from Dharamsala, India, spent much of this fall as one of the first professional fellows created by the school’s Knight Center for International Media (KCIM). 

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The mission statement describes it as “a fun, engaging, intelligent, [and] visually stimulating publication.” The first issue of the University of Miami’s newest publication, Distraction magazine, is planned for release in mid-February. The quarterly magazine, run solely by UM students, will focus on student life. 

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The tail gate drops. The stadium lights flicker. For most Hurricane fans, this will be the last time they set foot in the Orange Bowl.

For 30 student photographers, it is time to capture the last UM game day at the Orange Bowl, Nov. 10, 2007, minute by minute.

Jim Virga’s CVJ 361 and CVJ 309 classes submitted about 5000 images for the special project. Just 140 made the cut.

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Jay Heinrichs loves to argue, and he’s good at it. He shares his secrets at the School of Communication Courtyard Monday, Nov. 5, at 6:30 p.m.

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After 19 years running the place, the School of Communication’s founding dean, Edward J. Pfister, is back in the classroom and “having a ball.”

For the Hurricane Online, by Sophia Pino and Kaitlyn Lavender.
Please go to the Hurricane Online to read the full story.

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Behind a 49-page resume sits Don W. Stacks, professor and the director of the School of Communication’s Public Relations Program.

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Students at Florida Atlantic University recently traded their First Amendment rights for a free lunch, and soon UM students will do the same. 

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Sept. 10, 2007

President of Society of Professional Journalists’ University of Miami chapter Danielle McNally would like to see more involvement under her leadership.  She said that a lack of awareness has attributed to a recent decline in membership enrollment.