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UM Trustee Robert Mann Passes Away

Alumnus and WVUM co-founder’s influential gifts and service strengthened the U When Robert Mann, B.A. ’70, enrolled at the University of Miami in the late 1960s, the institution didn’t have a School of Communication. Back then, Mann’s area of study—radio and television broadcasting—was a department within UM’s College of Arts and Sciences. “The facilities were not great, but it was the professors who were very dedicated,” Mann once said, noting students had to work with surplus equipment from a local television station. But despite not having the best cameras and microphones, Mann [...]

October 9, 2017|Uncategorized|
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Three Professors Join School of Communication Faculty

University of Miami School of Communication welcomed three new professors this fall. Winston Warrior, a double alumnus, joins the Department of Journalism and Media Management after working for more than 20 years in the marketing industry. After receiving his B.B.A. in International Finance and Marketing and his M.B.A. in Marketing from the University of Miami, he worked for Vintage Consulting and Entertainment, the Bernie Sanders Presidential Campaign, the College Football Hall of Fame, media and entertainment personalities, real estate companies, financial institutions, and wellness centers. Even post-grad, Warrior remained very [...]

October 2, 2017|Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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Keeping Your Options Open: A Summer Internship in Sports Communications

With only two semesters left in my undergraduate Media Management studies, I knew that the summer of 2017 should be filled with some form of work experience. After applying to what felt like thousands of internships all across the media and entertainment industries in various cities, I received an email from the Charlotte Independence professional soccer team and Charlotte Hounds professional lacrosse team (both of which are run by the same company). A few days and a phone interview later, my summer plans were set. I grew up playing soccer [...]

September 29, 2017|Media Management|
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Visiting Knight Chair for Fall 2017 Brings Rapid Game Development to UM

As a journalist, how do you engage readers and motivate them to become active in addressing the issues facing their community? Lindsay D. Grace, University of Miami School of Communication’s Visiting Knight Chair for fall 2017, is bringing rapid game development to the university to help journalists, designers, and developers understand how to integrate game design as an engagement strategy. “Today, I believe, we need to help adapt our current large-scale communication systems and expectations toward involving experience. From my research, play is one of the most involving natural systems [...]

2019-12-16T18:41:20-05:00September 27, 2017|Interactive Media, Journalism|
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Flaming Classics and Secret Celluloid Society Present: Disney’s “The Little Mermaid”

Bring your floaties this Sunday, Sept. 3, for a special screening of Disney’s The Little Mermaid at the UC Pool. The film will be projected on 35mm and is paired with a drag queen performance from Miss Toto and Persephone Von Lips.  The “dive-in” theater event is part of Flaming Classics, a film and drag performance series that is the brainchild of Trae DeLellis, Cosford Cinema manager and adjunct professor, and Juan Barquin, co-runner of Dim the House Lights and arts writer for Miami New Times. With every Flaming Classics screening [...]

August 30, 2017|Motion Pictures|
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Hacking a Summer Internship

This summer, I spent two and a half months working in one of the largest and most bustling public relations hubs in the world as a corporate and financial communications intern for Burson-Marsteller in New York City. Burson-Marsteller is a global public relations and communications agency that specializes in using strategic insights and innovative programming to build and sustain strong corporate and brand reputations. Founded in 1953 by Harold Burson and Bill Marsteller, Burson-Marsteller is considered to be the first integrated communications firm. On the first day of the Harold [...]

August 28, 2017|Public Relations|
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Filming in Miami wrapped for Indie Comedy “Chateau Vato”: Production Survived Florida’s Hottest July in History

A feature film comedy, Chateau Vato, recently completed principal photography. The story focuses on a family of impoverished Latinos who squat in a lavish Miami mansion and assume an upper class lifestyle.  Chateau Vato is bursting with physical comedy and memorable one-liners. It stars actor-comedian Paul Rodriguez (Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Ali), Elpidia Carrillo (Predator, Bread and Roses) and Patricia De Leon (Magic City, Men of a Certain Age). It is written and directed by Tom Musca (Stand and Deliver, Tortilla Soup).  The production survived the hottest July ever in the history of Florida. The crew [...]

August 21, 2017|Motion Pictures|
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Top Research Papers Recognized with 2017 MMA Awards

An assessment of the "cord-cutting" trends in the video business, a survey examining relationships between Facebook use and sleep patterns, and an analysis of music streaming and piracy were the topics of the three winning entries of this year's Media Management Association (MMA) Awards. “A committee of three [School of Communication] faculty in the area of Media Management judged each of the submissions along common metrics, such as writing, analysis, and thoroughness. The awards were distributed based on these total scores,” said Dr. Michel Dupagne, professor and faculty advisor for [...]

July 19, 2017|Media Management|
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Creative Juices Flowing at Student-Run Consultancy

A new student-run consultancy is ready to take on clients at University of Miami School of Communication. Orange Umbrella Student Consultancy recently opened, offering an array of services to clients including public relations, advertising, interactive media, film production, research, and web design. The name for the consultancy was inspired by the orange umbrellas that dot UM’s campus and denotes the diverse student workforce and services provided under one umbrella. The consultancy employs students from a variety of disciplines including film, advertising, business, and public relations. “The word umbrella in the [...]

June 16, 2017|Advertising, Broadcast Journalism, Communication Studies, Electronic Media, Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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Co-producer of the Academy Award-winning film “Moonlight” shares his journey to the Oscars with SoC students

Andrew Hevia, co-producer of the Academy Award winning film, Moonlight, stopped by University of Miami School of Communication to shed light on Miami’s artistic value and the components of an Oscar-worthy film. The talk, titled From Medicine to Moonlight: How A Short Film and A DIY Festival Paved The Way To The Oscars, began with Hevia describing his first encounter with Barry Jenkins, director of Moonlight. Intrigued by Jenkins’ project at the time, Medicine for Melancholy, Hevia orbited the film as much as possible. Since the movie’s release and success [...]

May 1, 2017|Motion Pictures|
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