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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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School of Communication Summer Internship Experiences

“Unforgettable”… “Rewarding” …“An incredible experience” …“A dream come true”… That’s how some of the 15 students who interned in the Big Apple this summer described The NY Experience, the SOC summer intern program organized by Prof. Ellen Fleysher, the Frances L. Wolfson Chair in Communication Studies. Students worked in television news and entertainment, cable, radio, public relations, national magazines and music publishing. “Moving to a new city and working at an unfamiliar company was scary at first, but I am glad I took the risk,” said Morgan Stoner of St. [...]

June 9, 2014|Broadcast Journalism, Electronic Media, Journalism, Media Management|
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Alina Falcon to Visit the School of Communication

Alina Falcon, executive vice president for news and alternative programming at Telemundo Media, will be the year’s first speaker for the Media Management Association later this month.A 1983 graduate of the broadcasting program, Falcon has had a distinguished, 29-year career in Spanish-language broadcasting. Before moving to Telemundo, she served as president of the news division for Univision Communications, where she was responsible for news programming and production across all platforms, and as executive vice president and operating manager of the Univision Network. She also held top positions at the TeleFutura [...]

June 9, 2014|Media Management|
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Global Film on Aging to Have U.S. Premiere at Cosford

Our world is entering its Golden Years. By 2050, it is estimated there will be 1.5 billion senior citizens on the planet. Preparing for this phenomenon will practically change all aspects of our societies. A new feature-length global documentary The Silver Mirror explores the changing view on aging in the 21st Century.The film, written, directed and produced by Ali Habashi, director of the Edward H. Arnold Center for Confluent Media Studies at the College of Engineering, with cinematography by School of Communication Professor Ed Talavera, will have its U.S. premiere [...]

June 9, 2014|Motion Pictures|
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Students Return from Greece with a Film and a Lot of Experience

The nine students who participated in the UGreece Film Program this summer returned home with a 25-minute feature film and a music video and with some valuable experience on cutting-edge filmmaking equipment.The program, a four-week, six-credit course that included work on storytelling skills, exterior lighting and editing, as well as classes on the history of Greek cinema, was led by Associate Professor Ed Talavera. Lost in the Aegean – the film’s rough working title, Talavera said – tells the story of two American girls who accidentally kill a German tourist [...]

June 9, 2014|Motion Pictures|
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MFA Student Explores History of Film in Santander, Colombia

Before enrolling in the MFA film program at the School of Communication a year ago, Luis Jose Galvis Diaz studied journalism in Bucaramanga, Colombia, and worked as a television producer, a radio commentator and a film critic. He also taught history of cinema at the Universidad Autonoma de Bucaramanga.“I love movies,” Galvis said recently, “but more than anything, I am a storyteller. I came to film by way of writing.”Among the many stories he tells is that of the film industry in his native state of Santander. He recently completed [...]

June 9, 2014|Motion Pictures|
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Film by SofC Graduate to Screen this Weekend at O Cinema, Wynwood

Less than 10 years after graduating from the film program, Kyle Patrick Alvarez made his debut at the Sundance Film Festival last January with C.O.G., a movie he wrote, produced and directed.The film, based on a piece from David Sedaris’ essay collection, Naked, was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize in the category of drama. The award, which recognizes the best dramatic submission from the independent film community, went to Fruitvale, directed by Ryan Coogler. “Getting into Sundance was a lifelong dream of mine, so for it to come true [...]

June 9, 2014|Motion Pictures|
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An Emmy for SoC Film Professor Jeffrey Stern

Jeffrey Stern, an assistant professor of professional practice at the School of Communication, has won an Emmy for his work in the hit HBO series Boardwalk Empire.The award, Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series, was announced by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences during the Primetime Creative Arts Awards ceremony, held at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday.Stern was the dialogue editor in the winning team, which included Fred Rosenberg, supervising sound editor; Roland Vajs and Bill Orrico, sound editors; Ruy Garcia, sound effects editor; Annette [...]

2019-12-17T19:49:49-05:00June 9, 2014|Motion Pictures|
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