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UM Finishes Second in National Student Advertising Competition

When students on the School of Communication's National Student Advertising Competition team were tasked with targeting millennials for storied cosmetics brand, Mary Kay, they decided to take big risks, said Kelly Smith, B.S.C. '14, a creative director for the team.  The team developed The Skinny Dip Challenge, a seven-day make-up free commitment to introduce millennial women to the brand's skin care line."We knew going into nationals that our client, who is a very established and successful brand, might not bite on something a little more provocative and risky, but the [...]

June 11, 2014|Advertising|
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School Mourns the Loss of Jack Metzger, WVUM’s First Faculty Adviser

Former University of Miami faculty member and alumnus Jack Metzger, who taught communication courses for 14 years, passed away from cancer and heart disease earlier this year.  Metzger was 81. A host of children’s programs on local TV, Metzger, A.B. ‘53, taught radio production classes, including script writing and radio performance at UM, during the late 1950s’ through the 1960s’. He was a graduate of UM’s Radio Television and Film Department. In 1968, he became the first faculty adviser of WVUM 90.5 FM “The Voice,” the University’s campus radio station. [...]

June 9, 2014|Advertising, Broadcast Journalism, Communication Studies, Doctoral, Electronic Media, Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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Dave Steinberg Receives 2013 Staub Faculty Excellence Award

Communication Studies faculty member David L. Steinberg, the director of the University of Miami Debate Team, is the recipient of the 2013 Robert and Christine Staub Faculty Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Effective Teaching at the University of Miami School of Communication. The Staub Faculty Excellence Award, an endowed gift from UM alumnus Robert Staub, B.B.A.’56, and his wife, Christine, recognizes a School of Communication faculty member for effectiveness in teaching, advising, mentoring, and service roles in and outside the classroom. Students and alumni nominated deserving professors and a [...]

2019-12-17T19:50:47-05:00June 9, 2014|Communication Studies|
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2013 Wine Spectator Foundation Student Scholarship Winners

A group of exceptional students from the School of Communication are the recipients of a 2013 Wine Spectator Foundation Scholarship. The Wine Spectator Foundation Scholarship is an annual scholarship that awards $50,000 a year to deserving students studying communication at the University of Miami. This year’s winners are: Aaron Agrasanchez, Motion Pictures Brittany Camper, Broadcast Journalism Daniela Ortega, Broadcast Journalism Kate Maier, Motion Pictures Scott McCartney, Media Management Morgan McKie, Motion Pictures Carlos Mella, Advertising Kelsey Quinn, Advertising Amilyn Soto, Advertising Students vying for the Wine Spectator Foundation Scholarship were [...]

2020-04-06T21:34:27-04:00June 9, 2014|Advertising, Broadcast Journalism, Communication Studies, Doctoral, Electronic Media, Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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University of Miami Wins 2013 National Student Advertising Competition

For the second time in three years, The University of Miami won first place at the highly competitive National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) in Phoenix last week, besting 17 other district-winning universities from around the country with a vibrant and interactive marketing and advertising campaign for Glidden® Paint at Walmart. The UM Team, The Miami Collective, also took home the award for best use of research for the second consecutive year. As part of the June 5-7, competition, students were challenged to create a $10 million, five-month campaign targeting do-it-yourself [...]

June 9, 2014|Advertising|
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Top UM Student Films Hit the Big Screen in Tinsel Town during Canes Film Showcase

When the credits rolled on the big screen of the Paramount Studios Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., an audience of hundreds issued enthusiastic applause for the five short films produced by University of Miami School of Communication Cinema students. On May 23, 2013 The School of Communication presented the “Canes Film Showcase: New Motion Pictures from University of Miami Students,” an annual screening of UM’s top student films at the world-famous Paramount Studios. SoC alumni and industry brass were invited to see the creative work of a talented group of emerging [...]

June 9, 2014|Motion Pictures|
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Journalism Professor Joseph Treaster Awarded Scripps Howard Foundation/AEJMC Social Media Grant

The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) has selected University of Miami School of Communication journalism professor Joseph B. Treaster as a recipient of a 2013-14 Scripps Howard Foundation/AEJMC Social Media Externship Grant. The grant supports the opportunity for journalism faculty to spend two weeks this summer learning first-hand how newspapers and broadcast stations use social media across multiple platforms.  Professors will then take this knowledge into their classrooms during the fall and winter/spring semesters. Treaster, the John S. and James L. Knight Chair in Cross-Cultural Communication, [...]

2019-12-17T19:50:10-05:00June 9, 2014|Broadcast Journalism, Electronic Media, Journalism, Media Management|
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School of Communication Hosts Journalism Workshop for High School Students

Twenty South Florida high school students arrived at the University of Miami on July 6 for The Peace Sullivan/James Ansin High School Journalism and New Media Workshop, presented by the School of Communication. During the three-week workshop, students live on campus and hone their writing, editing, designing, and photography skills by working together to create a publication, video, and website focused on topics affecting South Florida youth. Led by UM and Florida International University faculty, the workshop also incorporates social media. Here, a high school student participates in a photography [...]

2026-03-03T09:01:01-05:00June 9, 2014|Broadcast Journalism, Electronic Media, Journalism, Media Management|
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His First Overseas Assignment? Cover the Pope

As a 24-year-old reporter, Bryan Llenas knows something about covering big news. He had already reported stories from across the country when, last February, Fox asked him to cover Pope Francis I’s election in Rome.Llenas career with Fox started in the summer of 2009 with an internship with Fox News Channel University in New York, his hometown.On his first day working in Studio B at the Fox Report with Shepard Smith, Michael Jackson died. Llenas ended up working an 18-hour-long shift – running scripts to Smith, cutting video, and doing [...]

June 9, 2014|Broadcast Journalism, Electronic Media, Journalism, Media Management|
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Hacking for Better Government

A group of South Florida Web designers and developers have banded together to make local government more efficient and responsive to its citizens. They’re called Code for Miami, and their inspiration stems in part from a coding workshop held last spring at the University of Miami School of Communication. “Code for Miami is a kind of Peace Corps for geeks,” said Rebekah Monson, 32, a former Sun Sentinel journalist who is now a student in the inaugural class of the SofC’s MFA in interactive media. She is one of the [...]

June 9, 2014|Interactive Media|
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