Journalism

Maggie Steber, a visiting lecturer at the School of Communication, is one of 11 photographers being honored by the National Geographic Society with an exhibition at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C.The exhibition, Women of Vision: National Geographic Photographers on Assignment, opens Thursday and features 99 images taken by the photographers for the magazine since 2000. The images have been collected for a book of the same title that will be available in March.Steber, who teaches documentary photography in the Department of Journalism and Media Management, has worked as [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]