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UM Senior Wins Prestigious Debate Award

By: Jabria Roscoe Julia Lynch, an avid debater and finance and legal studies major at UM, is the recipient of the prestigious Julia Burke Award for Character and Excellence. Lynch received the award at the American Debate Association National Championship tournament on Mar. 8 in Las Vegas. “It was a really incredible award to win,” said Lynch. “I’ve known about it since my freshman year of college, so it was very emotional.” The Julia Burke Award is unique because it not only recognizes someone who wins debate tournaments, but also [...]

2020-04-30T14:59:38-04:00April 30, 2020|Communication Studies, School of Communication|
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Student Faces a New ‘Humanity Emergency’

By: Christopher Bared Sarah Fraser, a medical doctor and graduate student in the University of Miami School of Communication, decided to return to the medical front lines and help battle COVID-19 in her native Canada. Last year, in the Oct. 3, 2019, edition of UMTV’s NewsVision show, Dr. Sarah Fraser appeared as the guest medical expert. A graduate student in the University of Miami School of Communication, she had pressed pause on her medical career to pursue a master’s degree in journalism. On the student media cable show, she eloquently [...]

2020-04-23T15:09:01-04:00April 23, 2020|Journalism, School of Communication|
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Joining Forces to Give Back: SoC Graduate Student And Professor Make Masks And Face Shields For Frontline Workers

By: Isabella Vaccaro It all began with Lorena Lopez, a UM graduate student pursuing an M.F.A. in Interactive Media, and some leftover materials she had laying around her home. Lopez, a long-time seamstress and costume designer, said after a few days in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic, she noticed a dire need for masks around the world and various groups coming together to make them. “If people are requesting them, and I can make them, there’s no reason for me not to, especially if I have all the materials at [...]

2020-04-22T12:19:10-04:00April 22, 2020|Interactive Media, School of Communication|
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UM Professor Wins BEA Festival of Media Arts Award

By: Jabria Roscoe Sanjeev Chatterjee, professor, won the Award of Excellence from the Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts (BEA) for his documentary, Sweet Malady. “It feels great,” said Chatterjee. “It’s an international award so it always feels good to win something like this.” Sweet Malady follows a West Bengal family whose members all acquire Type 2 Diabetes from foods they associate with happiness. “I’m inspired by what I see,” said Chatterjee. “I wanted to show the culture of sweets in the Bengali community in India and show something [...]

2020-04-21T17:07:21-04:00April 21, 2020|Journalism, Motion Pictures|
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Student Productions Win Big at National Media Competition

By: Sabrina Pizziol University of Miami students took the nation by storm at the 57th Annual National Undergraduate Student Electronic Media Competition, receiving several nominations and taking home eight awards. UMTV’s Spanish-language news show, UniMiami, was recognized as the Best Video Newscast (Prerecorded) making it the first award the program has won. “It was definitely a long-time coming,” said Alexa Eckembrecher, one of the executive producers of UniMiami. “It would have never happened if it weren't for all the members that worked on this program before me and my co-EP, [...]

2020-04-21T12:41:12-04:00April 17, 2020|Broadcast Journalism, Electronic Media, Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Motion Pictures, School of Communication|
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School of Communication Research and Creative Activity Focusing on COVID-19

By: SoC News Faculty from the School of Communication are contributing to research on COVID-19 and the effects this virus has had on society. Through various projects, faculty are exploring the role of communication in reporting COVID-19 data, employee perceptions on business communication, social media use, and other topics. The list below will be updated as projects are developed. 1. Organizational communication for public health emergencies by Yeunjae Lee, Queenie Li, and Weiting Tao This project aims to understand how organizations communicate with their employees during the COVID-19 outbreak and its resulting impacts on [...]

2020-04-16T16:42:38-04:00April 16, 2020|School of Communication|
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Student Media Reporters Steel Themselves for their Biggest Story Yet

By: Ashley A. Williams The reporting teams at The Miami Hurricane and UMTV seize the opportunity to tell their stories during a global pandemic. Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures. People all over the world are quarantined in their homes, relying on journalists to bring them up-to-the-minute news about the novel coronavirus. Along with the rest of the media world, the University of Miami’s emerging journalists and reporters have adjusted to sheltering at home while simultaneously documenting the biggest story of their lives—the global COVID-19 pandemic. Students Rebecca Goddard, editor-in-chief [...]

2020-04-14T14:42:09-04:00April 14, 2020|School of Communication|
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Dean Reflects on the State of the Media in the Age of Coronavirus

By: Barbara Gutierrez Karin Wilkins, dean of the University of Miami School of Communication, examines the challenges facing the media in the age of coronavirus. Karin Wilkins, the dean of the School of Communication at the University of Miami, arrived at her job on Sept. 1, 2019, under the threat that Florida could be hit by Hurricane Dorian, a powerful storm marching across the Atlantic that eventually decimated parts of The Bahamas. As her second semester at the helm winds down, she is now watching the impact the coronavirus pandemic [...]

2020-04-08T11:02:24-04:00April 8, 2020|School of Communication|
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Klas Speaks to Class After Entry Denied to Governor’s Press Conference

By: Karina Valdes As social distancing was becoming the new normal around the country, news reporters were crowded in Governor Ron DeSantis’ office almost daily for press conferences. “I made a request [to Governor DeSantis’ office] that they find a larger meeting room so that we could do social distancing and I also requested that they do what the mayors in other parts of the state have been doing, and that is just holding virtual press conferences,” said Mary Ellen Klas, capital bureau chief for the Miami Herald and co-bureau [...]

2020-04-07T17:16:23-04:00April 7, 2020|Uncategorized|
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