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Fall 4C Pilot Grants Awarded

A total of eight faculty members spread across six departments were awarded 4C Pilot Grants by the University of Miami School of Communication Center for Communication, Culture, and Change. These grants are awarded three times per year to fund interdisciplinary projects that align with the mission of the center and are designed to provide data to compete for external funding from private, foundation, and government sources. Margaret Cardillo, lecturer in the Department of Cinema and Interactive Media, along with Caleb Everett, professor in the College of Arts & Sciences and chair [...]

2019-12-16T18:35:54-05:00November 1, 2017|Advertising, Communication Studies, Doctoral, Media Management, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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Master’s Program Created for Media Management

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, [...]

November 1, 2017|Media Management|
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Infusing New Blood into a Shakespearean Classic

When Ed Talavera, associate professor in the Cinema and Interactive Media Department, approached his former student Ronnie Khalil about directing a feature film for the School of Communication’s Film in Greece summer study abroad program, neither of them had any intention of making an LGBT interracial vampire romance. Yet several unexpected turns shaped With a Kiss I Die into exactly that. UM alumna and assistant professor of screenwriting Barbara Leibell teamed up with alumnus James Orie to write a comedy about an immortal Juliet Capulet never dying, as she did in the original Shakespearean [...]

October 27, 2017|Motion Pictures|
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UM Debates at Sunshine Showdown

The University of Miami Debate Team began the season competing against students from the University of Florida and the University of Central Florida at the Sunshine State Showdown hosted by UCF in Orlando on October 6-8. The UM Team of Nicole Beckemeyer and Jakob Nordenstam won half their debates. Jakob was recognized as the fifth place individual speaker and Nicole was sixth place. Rene Betancourt and Monica Samit were 1-3, but left the tournament ready for their next competition. To learn more about the UM Debate Team visit http://debate.miami.edu/.

October 25, 2017|Communication Studies|
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Research Grant Recipients Announced

A total of five faculty members spread across three departments were recently announced as the 2017 – 2018 recipients of the Creative Activity and Research Grants. The funding supports work that will result in clear and prominent scholarly and/or creative accomplishments that support the enhanced reputation of the School of Communication. Wan-Hsiu “Sunny” Tsai, William Hughes, and Juliana Fernandes from the Department of Strategic Communication, Victoria Oreggo Dunleavy from the Department of Communication Studies, and Michelle Seelig from the Department of Cinema and Interactive Media were selected by an interdisciplinary [...]

2019-12-17T19:24:40-05:00October 18, 2017|Advertising, Communication Studies, Doctoral, Motion Pictures|
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Motion Pictures Program Named One of the Top 50 in the Country

The University of Miami was named one of the top 50 film schools in the country by TheWrap Magazine. Jumping from number 38 in 2016 to number 27 in 2017, the motion pictures program was recognized for its immersive curriculum, experienced professors and successful alumni from the program and the University, including Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Sylvester Stallone, Barry Waldman and David Nutter, Emmy-winning Game of Thrones director. TheWrap Magazine’s second annual ranking was revealed in September. The magazine selects the top 50 programs based on alumni involvement, alumni professional success, [...]

October 16, 2017|Motion Pictures|
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A Sunny Place for Shady People: Bogart Film Festival Returns to UM

The Humphrey Bogart Film Noir Shorts Competition & Film Showcase returns to the University of Miami on Oct. 15 – 17 for its third annual student film competition. This year, for the first time, the competition is being expanded to all filmmakers, not just students. The fifth annual classic festival, which shows classic Bogart films, returns to Key Largo from Oct. 18 – 22.  The portion of the festival that takes place at the Cosford Cinema came from Ruth Reitan’s thesis project while she was completing her M.F.A. at the [...]

October 16, 2017|Motion Pictures|
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UM Trustee Robert Mann Passes Away

Alumnus and WVUM co-founder’s influential gifts and service strengthened the U When Robert Mann, B.A. ’70, enrolled at the University of Miami in the late 1960s, the institution didn’t have a School of Communication. Back then, Mann’s area of study—radio and television broadcasting—was a department within UM’s College of Arts and Sciences. “The facilities were not great, but it was the professors who were very dedicated,” Mann once said, noting students had to work with surplus equipment from a local television station. But despite not having the best cameras and microphones, Mann [...]

October 9, 2017|Uncategorized|
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Three Professors Join School of Communication Faculty

University of Miami School of Communication welcomed three new professors this fall. Winston Warrior, a double alumnus, joins the Department of Journalism and Media Management after working for more than 20 years in the marketing industry. After receiving his B.B.A. in International Finance and Marketing and his M.B.A. in Marketing from the University of Miami, he worked for Vintage Consulting and Entertainment, the Bernie Sanders Presidential Campaign, the College Football Hall of Fame, media and entertainment personalities, real estate companies, financial institutions, and wellness centers. Even post-grad, Warrior remained very [...]

October 2, 2017|Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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Keeping Your Options Open: A Summer Internship in Sports Communications

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 [...]

September 29, 2017|Media Management|
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