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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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Students, Faculty and Alumni Participate in Online News Association Conference

School of Communication students, faculty and alumni participated in the Online News Association conference October 17-19 in Atlanta. The School of Communication also is the academic partner in the Association’s Online Journalism Awards. The conference is the one of the largest digital journalism conferences in the world, providing learning sessions, demonstrations and knowledge sharing for hundreds of media professionals. Meet some of the UM School of Communication students, alumni and faculty who participated: Hadley Jordan, visual journalism undergraduate Hadley Jordan worked with a team of students and professional mentors in [...]

April 7, 2014|Broadcast Journalism, Journalism|
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Debate Team Rises to No. 8 in National Rankings

By David L. Steinberg On the wave of another outstanding tournament performance at Vanderbilt this weekend, The University of Miami Debate Team has moved up to No. 8 in the National Debate Tournament Rankings, up from No. 11 in the previous ranking.  UM currently leads traditional powerhouses Northwestern, Harvard, Vanderbilt, Emory, and more than 100 other schools.  We trail only No. 5 Wake Forest in the Southeast region.  UM is ranked No. 11 in the Cross Examination Debate Association rankings.  Both rankings reward points based on ballots won across all [...]

2019-12-17T19:48:22-05:00April 7, 2014|Communication Studies|
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Barbecue Unites Alumni and Students for Homecoming

By Emily Young On Friday, Nov. 8, students, alumni, faculty, staff, and family gathered in the School of Communication courtyard to catch up and enjoy a barbecue. Alumni were back in town for the Homecoming weekend and many brought family  to see their alma mater, old classmates and professors.  The event allowed for current students to mingle and network with alumni from all fields and to hear about their experiences in the workforce. Professors were delighted to see recent graduates in town for the weekend and hear about their careers [...]

April 7, 2014|Advertising, Broadcast Journalism, Communication Studies, Electronic Media, Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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Visual Journalism Sophomore Honored with Florida Campus Compact Award

By University Communications University of Miami sophomore Valerie Quirk has been awarded The Excellence in Service Award by Florida Campus Compact, which recognizes and honors students for outstanding service to Florida’s communities. "When I first came to college, my goal was to help bring programming to students that would be meaningful and impactful on their lives,” Quirk says. “It means a lot to be personally recognized as I work towards my goals, but at a bigger level, I think it is amazing that Florida Campus Compact is putting a real [...]

2019-12-17T19:47:59-05:00April 7, 2014|Journalism|
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Technologist, Author and Creativity Expert Denise Jacobs to Speak

Speaker, writer and creativity evangelist Denise Jacobs will speak at the University of Miami School of Communication  this Thursday, November 21, at 6:25 p.m. Her talk, titled "Get Unblocked," is  open to the public. As a creative, you need ways to work better so that you can create more, but what do you do when you hit a seemingly insurmountable mental wall? You need to get unblocked: to bust through that barrier to allow creativity to flow. Combining the neuroscience of creativity, productivity hacks, and practices that spur innovation and synergistic collaboration, [...]

April 7, 2014|Interactive Media|
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