Info Session with E.W. Scripps
2025-11-13 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Koenigsberg & Nadal Interactive Media Center, 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables, FL, 33146
Join us for an inside look at one of the nation’s leading media companies! Representatives from E.W. Scripps will share insights into their organization, showcase examples of their award-winning work, and answer your questions about careers in journalism, broadcasting, and media.
Hear directly from Neal Bennett, Sr. Talent Acquisition Partner; Joe Fisher, Executive Reporter for WPTV; and Cameron Dobbs (UM ’22), host of Inside South Florida on WSFL. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and get inspired by professionals shaping the future of news and storytelling.

Brown Bag Luncheon | Alfred L. Martin, Jr.
2025-11-13 12:00 - 13:15 | Wolfson Building, 1021
The Golden Age of Television: The Golden Girls in the 1980s and Beyond Debuting on September 14, 1985, the NBC series The Golden Girls, starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClannahan, and Estelle Getty became one of the most important series of the 1980s. While The Cosby Show attracted a multicultural audience along racial and gendered lines, The Golden Girls also captured queer viewers. Unlike series like The Cosby Show, Family Ties, Murder, She Wrote, Cheers, 60 Minutes, and Dynasty, which were the first through sixth most-watched series, The Golden Girls has endured in the popular zeitgeist and has been continuously on the air on Lifetime, WE, Logo, or other channels since it stopped producing new episodes in 1992. In this talk, Alfred Martin discusses the production of the series and the ways it captured a wide audience, finishing its first season as the seventh most-watched television program (tied with Dynasty). But Martin also explores the ways the series endures through its fandom, particularly among Black women and gay men.
The Fall 2025 Brown Bag Lecture series feature presentations of new works by School of Communication faculty. The series will be held in Wolfson 1021, from 12:00–1:15 p.m. Please feel free to bring your lunch. Desserts will be provided.

NERDLab Arcade
2025-11-18 17:00 - 19:00 | CIB 2055
Sign up to playtest your project at the NERDLab Arcade on November 18th from 5–7pm in CIB 2055. All stages of prototypes are welcome, even early builds. Join us to gather player feedback, meet other developers, and improve your game! Register here.

Computation+Journalism Symposium
2025-12-11 - 2025-12-12 | Newman Alumni Ctr, Multipurpose ABC, 6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, Florida, 33146
Thursday and Friday, December 11+ 12, 2025
$150 per person | $30 Students • TICKETS include BOTH DAYS
Authoritarian movements are on the rise worldwide. This has led to the degradation or outright destruction of trustworthy data, and to increasingly hostile environments where attacks on knowledge-creation and -dissemination professions and institutions—journalism and academia included—are becoming everyday news. The Computation + Journalism Symposium (C+J) will cast light on this challenge, aiming to become a forum to discuss how to face it.
Join us for two days of talks, workshops, roundtable sessions, and paper presentations.
Learn more and register at cplusj2025.com.
