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PREP students reflect on St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s 8th Annual Gala

A sea of black dresses, gold pins, and smiling faces greeted guests attending the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital “It’s All About the Kids” gala at the JW Marriot Marquis Miami on Sept. 19. The smiling faces guests saw upon arrival belonged to members of the University of Miami School of Communication PREP team. Assisting the Gala for more than five years now, members of PREP help the event organizers and public relations committee by assisting with greeting guests, checking in media, coordinating the red carpet, and escorting VIPs.   [...]

September 22, 2015|Public Relations|
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PREP Students Help 5K Gain International Attention

Periscope app streams 5th Annual Miami Children’s Health Foundation 5K to viewers worldwide As the day began, people of all ages gathered in Coral Gables to participate in the 5th Annual Miami Children’s Health Foundation (MCHF) 5K run/walk on Sept. 19.   The University of Miami School of Communication PREP class was on site before sunrise and ready to work. Lisbet Fernández-Viña, MCHF director of foundation external affairs, assigned the students their tasks and everyone was off to work. Assignments for the team included media check-in, photographer assistants, stage assistants [...]

September 22, 2015|Public Relations|
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SoC Professor Nominated for Third Emmy

Professor Jeffrey Stern was nominated for his third Emmy in the category Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series as Dialogue Editor on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. Stern has been with the show for all five seasons.  As dialogue editor, he is responsible for editing everything that is recorded during production-- and he is given only six days to edit all the recordings he is given. “It’s definitely a sprint more than a marathon,” Stern said. Being a professor and a dialogue editor for an Emmy-winning show are both time [...]

2019-12-17T19:36:30-05:00September 21, 2015|Communication Studies|
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Rwandan Debaters to Visit UM

In their first-ever appearance in Florida, Rwandan debaters from the African country’s iDebate Rwanda program will visit the University of Miami for a public debate about genocide recovery, forgiveness, and justice. The UM Debate Team is hosting the event, which will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, September 28 at the Shalala Student Center Senate Room. The event is part of the Rwandans' second annual tour of the U.S. that runs through the end of October. The “Voices from a Post-Genocide Generation Tour” started in 2014 and aims to share the [...]

September 18, 2015|Communication Studies|
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Professor Cairo Interviewed by Pew Research Center for article “The Art and Science of the Scatterplot”

In a recent survey of what Americans know about science, we asked people to interpret the chart you see here and tell us what it showed. Six-in-ten (63%) identify the best interpretation of this chart as “the more sugar people eat, the more likely they are to get cavities.” This kind of chart — known as a scatterplot — is very familiar to people who are used to working with numbers, such as economists, scientists, researchers and data journalists. It is a good way to show a relationship between two variables.

September 16, 2015|Interactive Media, Journalism|
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Becoming a Media Entrepreneur: MMA’s First Lecture of the Semester

Founder and CEO of Digital Content Group and former University of Miami School of Business Administration adjunct professor, Jay Scharer, spoke to students of the Media Management Association (MMA) Wednesday evening at UM’s School of Communication. His presentation, “Becoming a Media Entrepreneur,” encouraged students to ask themselves “Is this what I want?” During his career, Scharer has developed new brands and content and helped existing brands expand and succeed in more than 40 countries. He has worked as the Director of Marketing at Fox Television Station Productions and a Vice [...]

September 10, 2015|Media Management|
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’Canes Document Special Olympics

A team of University of Miami professors and students, both grad and undergrad, teamed up with Special Olympics for the World Games this past summer in Los Angeles. For the nine student interns, the majority of the work came before the Games even started, as they documented the first ever Unified Relay Across America, a run of the torch all the way across the country. Leader of the team, Professor Rich Beckman, has been working with Special Olympics for more than 30 years and says he has been to about [...]

September 9, 2015|Broadcast Journalism, Electronic Media, Journalism, Media Management|
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Hurricane Katrina, Behind the Headlines

Ten years ago, Professor Joseph B. Treaster led The New York Times’ coverage of Hurricane Katrina, one of the worst disasters in American history. Professor Treaster, who had been covering hurricanes for years, was one of the few reporters from a major news organization in New Orleans when the storm hit in late August, 2005 and he stayed with the story for days, working nearly around the clock, scavenging food and water, catching naps on a cot in the emergency operations center at City Hall.  As Professor Treaster tried to [...]

August 27, 2015|Journalism|
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MFA Graduate Tim Warren Wins International Award for Whiskey Spot

Tim Warren, a School of Communication Cinema and Interactive Media M.F.A. graduate in motion pictures, won a Finalist award at the New York Festivals’ International Advertising Awards for his Master’s thesis highlighting the mystique of the Johnnie Walker brand.  The student spot was shot in South Florida, the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, and New York City. More than 60 industry professionals worked in sub-zero weather conditions, with a full special effects team, elite lighting crew and camera equipment, and the only Milo Motion Control Camera Rig in the [...]

2019-12-17T19:36:46-05:00August 26, 2015|Advertising, Motion Pictures|
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10th Annual Canes Film Showcase

For many filmmakers, screening their film in Los Angeles is an opportunity that rarely comes. For motion picture students from University of Miami’s School of Communication, that dream is about to be realized. On June 4 at 8 p.m., the 10th annual Canes Film Showcase presents to a theater of leading industry professionals the top five student films and best screenplay, as judged in May during UM School of Communication’s Canes Film Festival. Screening are Espionage 101, Home, El Mar y El, The Mermaid, and I Want to Beat up [...]

August 22, 2015|Motion Pictures|
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