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Student Media win Pacemaker and Best of Collegiate Design Awards

The Ibis Yearbook, distractionmagazine.com and themiamihurricane.com received Pacemaker Awards at the Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Association National Conference in New Orleans. The Pacemaker is the ACP’s top annual award for college media outlets. This is the seventh Pacemaker for the Ibis and the first for distractionmagazine.com, Distraction’s online edition. The print edition of Distraction was honored with its second Pacemaker Finalist award. Student media leaders say the awards are both a reward for the staff’s hard work and encouragement to keep improving. “It tells me where we are and what [...]

2019-12-17T19:48:41-05:00April 7, 2014|Journalism|
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News Blogging Students Attend Yoani Sanchez Lecture

By Jessica Swanson, CNJ595 student Yoani Sanchez is a Cuban blogger and one of the foremost champions of freedom in the Western hemisphere. At the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies on Wednesday October 30, she spoke to about 50 onlookers. Her wavy black hair is longer in person than it seems on the cover of her book, Havana Real, that about a dozen students and I read for CNJ595, a class on news blogging.  Our entire class attended  Sanchez’s talk, though it wasn’t mandatory and it [...]

April 7, 2014|Journalism|
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Students, Faculty and Alumni Participate in Online News Association Conference

School of Communication students, faculty and alumni participated in the Online News Association conference October 17-19 in Atlanta. The School of Communication also is the academic partner in the Association’s Online Journalism Awards. The conference is the one of the largest digital journalism conferences in the world, providing learning sessions, demonstrations and knowledge sharing for hundreds of media professionals. Meet some of the UM School of Communication students, alumni and faculty who participated: Hadley Jordan, visual journalism undergraduate Hadley Jordan worked with a team of students and professional mentors in [...]

April 7, 2014|Broadcast Journalism, Journalism|
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Barbecue Unites Alumni and Students for Homecoming

By Emily Young On Friday, Nov. 8, students, alumni, faculty, staff, and family gathered in the School of Communication courtyard to catch up and enjoy a barbecue. Alumni were back in town for the Homecoming weekend and many brought family  to see their alma mater, old classmates and professors.  The event allowed for current students to mingle and network with alumni from all fields and to hear about their experiences in the workforce. Professors were delighted to see recent graduates in town for the weekend and hear about their careers [...]

April 7, 2014|Advertising, Broadcast Journalism, Communication Studies, Electronic Media, Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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Visual Journalism Sophomore Honored with Florida Campus Compact Award

By University Communications University of Miami sophomore Valerie Quirk has been awarded The Excellence in Service Award by Florida Campus Compact, which recognizes and honors students for outstanding service to Florida’s communities. "When I first came to college, my goal was to help bring programming to students that would be meaningful and impactful on their lives,” Quirk says. “It means a lot to be personally recognized as I work towards my goals, but at a bigger level, I think it is amazing that Florida Campus Compact is putting a real [...]

2019-12-17T19:47:59-05:00April 7, 2014|Journalism|
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C-SPAN Bus Visits School of Communication

To public relations and political science senior Allison Novack, C-SPAN is the best of many worlds— a media outlet with a public service mission in government. When she was offered an internship with the network over the summer, she leapt at the opportunity. "I have always wanted to mesh my interests together, and C-SPAN was the perfect place to do that," she said. "It's a great place to intern, because there are so many opportunities to learn and explore D.C." Novack was among the first to arrive when she heard [...]

April 7, 2014|Broadcast Journalism, Journalism, Media Management|
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Professor Alberto Cairo Delivers Keynote at Google for Media Summit in Miami

Assistant Professor of Professional Practice Alberto Cairo delivered the keynote address, “Believe it or Not, You Are or Should be A Visual Journalist,” at the Google for Media Summit in Miami. The Summit gathered more than 100 media professionals from South Florida and beyond to learn about the latest uses of technology in media and how Google tools can help in storytelling. Cairo argues that journalists must understand the visual display of information, but effective visualizations rely on more than rapidly evolving software. “In order to manipulate those data we [...]

April 7, 2014|Journalism|
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Scripps Executive to Address Media Management Association

Brian G. Lawlor, MBA 1996, will visit the School of Communication to share his experiences as a television executive with the Media Management Association. He will address the MMA at 5 p.m. on Jan. 28 in room 2055 of the Communication International Building.  Lawlor, 47, is senior vice president of The E.W. Scripps Company television division, which includes 19 stations and digital businesses in 13 U.S. markets. In 2012, the television division was the largest contributor of revenue to the company. Lawlor previously was the corporate vice president of sales [...]

April 7, 2014|Journalism, Media Management|
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Student Media Honored in CSPA Gold Circle Awards

The Columbia Scholastic Press Association just announced the winners from the yearbook and digital media categories of its 31st Gold Circle Awards program. This year, CSPA received 4,279 entries produced by students at colleges, universities and secondary schools throughout the United States. Congratulations to winners from University of Miami Student Media: Distraction Magazine News Feature Certificate of Merit - Rachel Kliger, "Lisa Ling's Open Heart at Fall Convocation"   Personal Opinion On-Campus Issues Certificate of Merit - Amanda Wood, "The Student Activities Center: A Student Perspective"   Personal Opinion Off-Campus [...]

2019-12-17T19:47:11-05:00April 7, 2014|Journalism, Media Management|
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Former Saks CEO Stephen Sadove Talks Retail With SoC Students

By Chelsea Wortham UM News   Mobile Internet devices that have led to greater access to communication have changed the overall retail experience for shoppers, shifting power away from merchants and manufacturers to the consumer, Stephen Sadove, former chairman and CEO of Saks Incorporated, told a group of University of Miami School of Communication students on Thursday.   Speaking in Shoma Hall on the topic “What’s Going On with the Retail Consumer Today?” Sadove discussed the evolution of “omni-channel retailing”— the experience shoppers have with retailers through computers, brick-and-mortar stores, [...]

April 7, 2014|Advertising, Journalism, Public Relations|
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