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LA Alumni to Host Live-Stream of Entertainment Panel

As part of the University of Miami Alumni Association's Professional Development Month, the Greater Los Angeles Alumni Club will be hosting a 'Canes in Entertainment Panel on April 21 at the Hollywood Improv.   Los Angeles alumni may attend in person for drink specials and networking. Students and alumni based elsewhere may watch and ask questions live at our streaming link.   Join us on Monday, April 21: 6:45PM PST @ Hollywood Improv on 8162 Melrose Ave (Doors Open at 6:15PM.) 9:45PM EST @ www.ustream.tv/channel/um-los-angeles   Featuring: Rachel Brill (Vice President, [...]

June 2, 2014|Motion Pictures|
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SoC To Host Chicas Poderosas Interactive Storytelling Workshop

Chicas Poderosas — an organization dedicated to empowering Latin American women journalists to excel in visual storytelling, data visualization and interactive media with hands-on skills training — will hold its first workshop in the United States from April 17 to 20 in Miami. The final two days of the event will be hosted at the University of Miami School of Communication, and SoC students and faculty will participate. Chicas Poderosas was founded in 2013 by the International Center for Journalists’ Knight Fellow Mariana Santos to improve the skills of women [...]

June 2, 2014|Advertising, Broadcast Journalism, Communication Studies, Doctoral, Electronic Media, Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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SoC Team Wins National Student Advertising Competition in District Four

The student team from the School of Communication won the National Student Advertising Competition District Four Championship on April 5 in Orlando and will move on to the semi-final round later this month. The victory marks the first milestone on the team's attempt to earn its second consecutive NSAC championship, said adviser Alyse Lancaster, chair of the Department of Strategic Communication. 26 students from various departments in the school strategized, wrote, designed and pitched the campaign, which bested campaigns from Florida State University, Miami International University of Art and Design, Ringling College [...]

2019-12-17T19:45:39-05:00June 2, 2014|Advertising|
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Miami Herald Journalist Joins Department of Strategic Communication

At first, Heidi Carr thought it seemed a bit ironic that she would be teaching public relations classes at the School of Communication. But then it occurred to her that no one knows how to attract media attention better than a writer and editor who spent more than 20 years listening to public relations professionals try to persuade her to cover their client or event. Sometimes, it’s good to have an outsider’s perspective. So it could be said the Department of Strategic Communications made a strategic move this fall by [...]

April 7, 2014|Advertising, Public Relations|
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National Geographic Exhibition Features Work of SoC Photography Professor

Maggie Steber, a visiting lecturer at the School of Communication, is one of 11 photographers being honored by the National Geographic Society with an exhibition at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C.The exhibition, Women of Vision: National Geographic Photographers on Assignment, opens Thursday and features 99 images taken by the photographers for the magazine since 2000. The images have been collected for a book of the same title that will be available in March.Steber, who teaches documentary photography in the Department of Journalism and Media Management, has worked as [...]

April 7, 2014|Journalism|
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PR Major Re-Elected to Represent SoC in Student Government

Renee Perez, a sophomore majoring in public relations and political science, won re-election as the School of Communication senator in early October. Perez is also the vice chair of the public relations committee for student government and uses the skills she has learned in the classroom to keep students informed about student government initiatives.“I love that I can improve student government by using my public relations skills,” Perez said. “I recently designed a poll to help student government make plans to make San Amaro Drive safer. It made me realize [...]

April 7, 2014|Public Relations|
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UM Debate Organizes Sunshine State Showdown

In order to generate more opportunities for debate competition closer to home, and to promote the growth on debate programs in Florida, UM Debate led the organization of the first Sunshine State Showdown Intercollegiate Debate Tournament, held at the University of Central Florida in Orlando on October 12.The tournament was hosted by UCF, and run by David Steinberg, UM’s director of debate, and Patrick Waldinger, assistant director of debate. The University of Florida, Florida State University, the University of South Florida, the University of Central Florida and the University of [...]

April 7, 2014|Communication Studies|
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UM Debate ranked No. 11 nationally, competes at West Point

The first National Intercollegiate Debate Rankings for 2013 have been posted, and The University of Miami Debate Team is ranked among the nation’s elite.  In the National Debate Tournament (NDT) rankings, UM placed 11th (of 115 member schools), and the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) rankings place UM at #12.  UM is second in the Southeast Region to Wake Forest, who is ranked 6th by the NDT and 5th by CEDA. Rankings are based on an accumulation of ballots won across all divisions of debate. The team also traveled to [...]

2019-12-17T19:48:58-05:00April 7, 2014|Communication Studies|
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Student Media win Pacemaker and Best of Collegiate Design Awards

The Ibis Yearbook, distractionmagazine.com and themiamihurricane.com received Pacemaker Awards at the Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Association National Conference in New Orleans. The Pacemaker is the ACP’s top annual award for college media outlets. This is the seventh Pacemaker for the Ibis and the first for distractionmagazine.com, Distraction’s online edition. The print edition of Distraction was honored with its second Pacemaker Finalist award. Student media leaders say the awards are both a reward for the staff’s hard work and encouragement to keep improving. “It tells me where we are and what [...]

2019-12-17T19:48:41-05:00April 7, 2014|Journalism|
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News Blogging Students Attend Yoani Sanchez Lecture

By Jessica Swanson, CNJ595 student Yoani Sanchez is a Cuban blogger and one of the foremost champions of freedom in the Western hemisphere. At the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies on Wednesday October 30, she spoke to about 50 onlookers. Her wavy black hair is longer in person than it seems on the cover of her book, Havana Real, that about a dozen students and I read for CNJ595, a class on news blogging.  Our entire class attended  Sanchez’s talk, though it wasn’t mandatory and it [...]

April 7, 2014|Journalism|
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