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University of Miami alumni, Allison Bezold, 21, is using the same skills she learned at the School of Communication to give back to her alma mater.  Since she graduated in May with a B.A. in Visual Journalism, Bezold has been taking time off work to help fellow students. 

By ZEVENSUY RODRIGUEZ
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Democratic presidential hopefuls tried to motivate and capture the Hispanic vote during the debate Sunday night at UM.

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By KIMBERLY RUBENSTEIN
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Hosting the first bilingual presidential debate will give the University of Miami national exposure and provide students the opportunity to witness the Democratic forum up close, UM administrators said at a news conference Friday, Sept. 7.

En Español

By JOSH KNIGHT
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The UM-Univision debate will air Sunday, Sept. 9, in Coral Gables on WLTV Cable Channel 9.

By JENNIFER PENICHET
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UM will host several events on campus throughout the duration of the Democratic Presidential Candidate Forum Sunday, Sept. 9.

A Miami Herald reporter told School of Communication students that media convergence is the futuree - and the present—of journalism. “We’re witnessing a revolution,” said Casey Woods to a group of “new-journalists” at a basic news writing course, CNJ111-R, at the University of Miami. 

CORAL GABLES, Fla.—Journalism students of CNJ111 (R), a basic news-writing course at the University of Miami’s School of Communication, hope to take their academic experience to a new level.  In a joint effort, students have taken the initiative to create their online publication, CNJ111R.

University of Miami graduate Stephanie Floris is giving back to the organization that brightened her future.  “There has not been a single day when I have woken up and said ‘I do not want to go to work’,” the mentoring coordinator of Take Stock in Children said in an interview hosted by journalism students at the School of Communication.

Five-week Summer Program Starts in June

It is early evening and the University of Miami student reporters stand nervously while figuring out a way to approach an immigrant in Tultilan, Mexico, who is standing alone while waiting for the 6.p.m northbound train on route to the United States. 

As a reporter covering Latin-American immigrant communities for The Miami Herald, Casey Woods said multi-language skill is a great asset for a journalist.

Summer 2007 CNJ-111 students’ new “web magazine” focuses on children with disabilities. They profiled the impact of a disorder from three perspectives: a child, a single mother, and UM/NSU Center for Autism & Related Disabilities’ effort to support the families. These young journalists plan to maintain their newly created webpage as a working portfolio and add other news stories and multimedia components, such as photos, video and audio clips. Go to CNJ111-C to read their stories.

This year the University of Miami’s summer journalism workshop for high school students will focus on teenage shootings in South Florida. Rather than the usual 10 days, this year’s program will run for three weeks, starting July 5. 

Student reporters in Marcus Messner’s CNJ 216 Reporting and News Writing class have produced a “Where We Live” section for the Miami Herald that was published April 21. The students wrote stories on the Kendall community, covering Metrozoo and Tamiami Airport as well as construction projects in downtown Kendall and at the Town & Country Shopping Center.

Journalism students in the CNJ 515 Reporting and the Internet class have been writing blogs all semester long. If you want to know what they thought of the visits of Bill Clinton and Al Gore, what they did during Communiciation Week or if you want to read their tips on how to investigate news stories in Miami.

Beloved Theater Prof to Retire

Students know Kenneth Kurtz as the tall thin man with white hair and thick glasses smoking a cigarette in a chair outside the stage door of the University of Miami Jerry Herman Ring Theater.

A typical day for Jessica Sick begins with a steaming cup of tea and perhaps a bowl of cereal. Then she walks a few steps from her kitchen table to her desk, and starts her nine-to-five as Miami editor for Daily Candy, at home. 

After winning an Oscar for his documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” former Vice President Al Gore had one of his first public appearances on Feb. 28 at the Bank United Center as part of the University’s Lecture Series. Only a day later, former President Bill Clinton spoke at the Spring Convocation. Journalism students from Marcus Messner’s CNJ 216 class reported on both events.
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