Media Management

Every year, the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) offers a competitive internship program that allows selected students to attend the conference and develop a greater knowledge of the television buying and distribution processes. Since 2011, the annual NATPE conference has been held in Miami Beach. In 2018, three students from the University of Miami School of Communication Department of Journalism and Media Management participated as NATPE interns. One of them, Lauren Tierney, a Media Management senior, shared her experience at the conference. Interns at NATPE are responsible for [...]

"[Job Seeking] is so much about the connections you make." This quote was the most important piece of advice guest speaker and University of Miami School of Communication alumna Kate Barnett shared with the members of the Media Management Association at the last meeting. During her talk, she retraced her nine-year journey from student to the professional world. Barnett graduated in December 2008 from UM and moved up the ranks of audience measurement giant Nielsen to become its vice president for digital client solutions. From a young age, Barnett developed [...]

On October 18, the Media Management Association invited Ed McCullough to share his experience being involved in both the editorial and commercial sides of the news industry. McCullough spent more than 30 years working for the Associated Press (AP) in various functions, including news editor in South America and the Caribbean, bureau chief in Europe, and regional director for Latin America. More recently, he was AP's director for the Spanish media markets for eight years, until he became a media consultant in 2017. The AP is a well known news [...]

The University of Miami School of Communication has added a 34-credit Master of Science in Media Management to its existing graduate programs. The new program, which starts in fall 2018, allows students to advance their career interests in the media industry in areas such as distribution, sales, news and entertainment programming, research, and analytics. Michel Dupagne, professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Management and faculty advisor of the Media Management Association, assisted in the creation of this program. “There are few graduate media management programs in the country, [...]

With only two semesters left in my undergraduate Media Management studies, I knew that the summer of 2017 should be filled with some form of work experience. After applying to what felt like thousands of internships all across the media and entertainment industries in various cities, I received an email from the Charlotte Independence professional soccer team and Charlotte Hounds professional lacrosse team (both of which are run by the same company). A few days and a phone interview later, my summer plans were set. I grew up playing soccer [...]

An assessment of the "cord-cutting" trends in the video business, a survey examining relationships between Facebook use and sleep patterns, and an analysis of music streaming and piracy were the topics of the three winning entries of this year's Media Management Association (MMA) Awards. “A committee of three [School of Communication] faculty in the area of Media Management judged each of the submissions along common metrics, such as writing, analysis, and thoroughness. The awards were distributed based on these total scores,” said Dr. Michel Dupagne, professor and faculty advisor for [...]