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MMA Meeting: An Internship Opens Doors for a Professional Life

On October 3, University of Miami Media Management alumna Marissa Condello visited the campus to speak to Media Management Association members about her professional journey from the classroom to Walt Disney, where she works as a senior pricing analyst. Because she took many of the same classes that media management students in the audience did or will take, the discussion was engaging and highly relevant for the students. Throughout her talk, Condello highlighted the importance of finding your passion. As a student at UM, Condello began her academic career on the pre-med [...]

October 20, 2016|Media Management|
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PREP Students Work the Red Carpet at St. Jude’s It’s All About the Kids Gala

As local celebrities and prominent members of the Miami community made their way down the red carpet at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital It’s All About the Kids Gala, students in the Public Relations Experience Program made sure every aspect of the event ran smoothly.  Guests were greeted by PREP students’ smiling faces as they entered the JW Marriot Marquis Hotel for the gala on Saturday, Oct. 1. The event raises money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which provides medical care to sick children regardless of their family’s ability [...]

October 19, 2016|Public Relations|
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UM Debate Hosts Rwandan Debate Delegation

On Tuesday, September 20, for the second consecutive year, UM Debate hosted iDebate Rwanda in a public debate on the motion, Aid to Africa Does More Harm Than Good. Rwanda is a country in East Africa known for only one thing; the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi people. In the space of 100 days, one million innocent people died for the sole reason of being born Tutsis. And, when all of this was happening, the world turned its back on Rwanda because Rwanda was not a place of strategic interest. [...]

October 18, 2016|Communication Studies|
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VP of Journalism for Knight Foundation Discusses Effects of Social Media on Reporting

“If it isn’t right, it’s wrong.”  Jennifer Preston, the vice president of journalism for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, quoted Bob Dylan to highlight the importance of truthfulness in journalism. She spoke with School of Communication students and faculty on Oct. 11 about the value of storytelling and the impact that social media has on reporting. The Knight Foundation is a national foundation, based in Miami, that invests in journalism and the arts in the cities where the Knight brothers once published newspapers. Preston joined the Knight [...]

October 17, 2016|Journalism|
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PREP is Fashion Forward Helping MCHF with Fashion Gives Back

Miami Children’s Health Foundation (MCHF)’s 5th Annual Fashion Gives Back was a night of high-fashion and high-energy for all students of University of Miami’s Public Relations Experience Program (PREP). The event was held at the exquisite Moore Building, located in the heart of Miami’s Design District, on Thursday, Sept. 29.  Throughout the event, PREP students managed social media accounts, assisted photographers and videographers, as well as aided in the media check-in process. PREP newcomers Micaela Rooney and Abby Hemenway worked one-on-one with event photographers to collect names of those in [...]

October 12, 2016|Public Relations|
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DiCaprio’s ‘Before the Flood’ Screening at the Cosford Cinema

An advance screening of Before the Flood, a documentary on climate change, is coming to the Bill Cosford Cinema. From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Fisher Stevens and Academy Award-winning actor, environmental activist, and U.N. Messenger of Peace, Leonardo DiCaprio, Before the Flood presents a riveting account of the dramatic changes now occurring around the world due to climate change, as well as the actions we as individuals and as a society can take to prevent catastrophic disruption of life on our planet. The film follows DiCaprio as he travels to five [...]

September 29, 2016|Motion Pictures|
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PREP’s First Special Olympics Awards Gala

University of Miami’s PREP students spent Saturday night, Sept. 24, working the Annual Special Olympics Sponsor an Athlete Awards Dinner Gala at the JW Marriot Marquis marking the first time PREP has teamed up with the organization. PREP students assisted photographers and worked with social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Periscope, for cocktail hour, the R-word table, and the red carpet. Of the 10 students working the event, this was the first gala for all but the two managers, Kaley Surman and Brianna Valdivia. “I really enjoyed the [...]

September 29, 2016|Public Relations|
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Koenigsberg and Nadal Interactive Media Center Opening at UM School of Communication

By Karina Valdes A state-of-the-art space for innovation and creativity is opening at the University of Miami School of Communication. The Koenigsberg and Nadal Interactive Media Center (IMC) is poised to transform experiential education at the University by giving students collaborative spaces and a fully-equipped multimedia agency to create, learn, and expand their portfolios. “Students need to have access to the tools that are driving creative work across communication industries,” says Gregory J. Shepherd, dean of the School of Communication. “But I also think it is essential that we provide [...]

2023-10-26T13:29:50-04:00September 27, 2016|Advertising, Broadcast Journalism, Communication Studies, Doctoral, Electronic Media, Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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PREP Students Assist in St. Jude’s 5K

University of Miami PREP students had an early yet rewarding start to their Saturday by assisting the staff of the South Florida office of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital with its annual St. Jude’s Run/Walk to End Childhood Cancer at the Miami-Dade County Fair Grounds on Sept. 24. St. Jude is one of the original partners for the PREP program and, as such, students in the course have been gaining valuable experience with the organization for more than six years. For the Run/Walk, PREP students assisted with runner check-in, social [...]

September 26, 2016|Public Relations|
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Build-a-Robot

Taylor Gandolfi graduated from the University of Miami in 2016 with a Master of Fine Arts in Interactive Media and an impressive portfolio. As part of the program’s capstone project, Gandolfi built her own robotic hand. After graduating from Eastern Illinois University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design in 2014, Gandolfi decided that University of Miami School of Communication was the right fit for her. A physical computing and prototyping class sparked Gandolfi’s interest in robotics. Once she learned the basics, she was given physical computing-related projects [...]

September 26, 2016|Interactive Media|
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