Journalism

When the School of Communication’s Alberto Cairo, associate professor and Knight Chair in Visual Journalism, and Joseph B. Treaster, professor, saw Hurricane Dorian threatening Miami, their first thought was: How can we help people understand this momentous event, how can we tell the story? Both ended up publishing work in The New York Times, which now has more than 4 million subscribers around the world. Talk about Miami faculty impact. Cairo, created a fast-paced narrative with graphics for The Times’ Op Ed Page on how to accurately read the National [...]

Researchers from 11 Mexican and U.S. academic institutions, including the University of Miami School of Communication, have formed the National Journalism Studies Research Network to carry out the third wave of the Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS) in Mexico. The research network will collect data to better understand and explain the realities of journalism in Mexico and compare Mexican journalists on a global scale through a rigorous administration of WJS-crafted questionnaires. School of Communication Associate Professor Sallie Hughes serves as a WJS regional coordinator for Latin American and the Caribbean. [...]

Considering the diverse political, social, and economic environments spanning the globe, the definition of journalism morphs from culture to culture. School of Communication Professor Jyotika Ramaprasad explored these diversities through extensive quantitative research in India and Botswana. Ramaprasad serves on the executive board of the Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS), an academically-driven data collection project. In its second phase, WJS members collected data  from 27,500 journalists spanning 67 countries. Once cleaned and screened at the WJS Headquarters in Munich, the data became available exclusively to this network of researchers to use [...]

Adi Schwartz is an Israeli independent journalist with more than 10 years of experience in leading Israeli international media outlets. Currently, he is Monocle magazine’s correspondent in Israel. Schwartz has just published a book about the Palestinian-Israeli refugee/human rights issue, The War for Return.  On Nov. 27, Schwartz will be presenting a talk titled The Disappearance of the Jews from Islamic Lands- History, Human Right and Current Implications at the University of Miami School of Communication. The event will be at Shoma Hall, CIB 3053, beginning with a reception at 6:30 pm. and [...]