News Archive
KNIGHT CHAIRS TRAVEL TO CAPITAL AND NEW YORK CITY
Coral Gables, FL (May 16, 2008) School of Communication Knight Chairs in Journalism, Joe Treaster and Rich Beckman, visited New York City and the Nation’s Capital to meet School of Communication alumni and other notable guests the week of May 12-16. The New York City and Washington, D.C. introductions of the Knight Chairs were led by Dean Sam Grogg who also moderated a brief discussion on the convergence of global media with the Chairs.
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PARTNERSHIP WILL BRING TOGETHER PUBLIC BROADCASTERS FROM FOUR NATIONS TO BRING ATTENTION TO THE GLOBAL WATER CRISIS
Coral Gables, FL (May 12, 2008) - The Knight Center for International Media at the University of Miami School of Communication and Independent Television Service International (ITVS) announced their partnership on Friday, May 9, to engage public broadcasters from Bahrain, Colombia, India, and South Africa to create television programs addressing the global potable water crisis. The partners launched the venture at the International Public Television (INPUT) Conference in Johannesburg where the partners participated with the globe’s broadcasters and filmmakers at a Leadership Summit to coordinate and plan the next steps for this collaboration.
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‘One Water’ film celebrates Earth Day
Kent State University Stark Campus, led by Dean Betsy V. Boze, will celebrate Earth Day 2008 by sponsoring the United States Premiere of “One Water,” a film that celebrates the planet’s relationship to water, at 7:30 p.m. April 22 at the Palace Theatre in downtown Canton.
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ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER SPEAKS ON CUBAN-JEWISH COMMUNITIES
Coral Gables, FL (March 26, 2008) - Ruth Behar a member of the University of Miami School of Communication’s Knight Center for International Media Advisory Board and professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan, lectured on Tuesday, March 25, at the College of Arts and Sciences Gallery about the small community of Cuban Jews living on the island. Behar, with her family, fled Cuba at four years old after Fidel Castro took power in 1959. In her latest book titled: An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba (Rutgers Univ. Press, 2007), Behar recounts her journey back to Cuba and the Jewish communities she discovers there.
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KNIGHT CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SPONSORS WORLD PRESS PHOTO EXHIBIT
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (March 24, 2008) - The 2007 World Press Photo exhibit opened in the Dominican Republic on March 17 at the Museo de las Casas Reales in the Zona Colonial of Santo Domingo. More than 100 invited guests attended the opening reception sponsored by the Dominican newspaper Hoy. The World Press Photo exhibit contains the winning images from the 2007 annual photojournalism contest held in Amsterdam. The exhibit’s visit to Santo Domingo was sponsored by the Knight Center for International Media at the University of Miami School of Communication.
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STANDING-ROOM-ONLY AUDIENCE HAILS "ONE WATER"
Six years in the making, the film is a visually stunning and powerful documentary on the global water crisis
Coral Gables, FL. (March 10, 2008) – One Water, a celebration of our planet's relationship to water produced by the University of Miami, had its world premiere at the Miami International Film Festival on March 9, 2008 in Miami Beach. Filmed in 14 countries, One Water explores the global fresh water crisis and how this invaluable resource touches on every aspect of human life and culture.
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WORLD PRESS PHOTO EXHIBIT MADE LASTING IMPRESSIONS
Sponsored by the University of Miami Knight Center for International Media
The World Press Photo Exhibit made a stop in the School of Communication’s Common Ground Courtyard from February 26-March 5. The exhibit, which came to the SoC for the second year, is a collection of the organization’s 2007 award-winning photographs. The winning photographs of the traveling photo exhibit were selected from 4,460 professional photographers from 124 countries.
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KNIGHT CHAIR IN CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION HOSTS PANEL ON CHINA’S ECONOMY
Coral Gables, FL (March 17, 2008) - Joe Treaster, one of the SoC’s newest faculty additions and the Knight Chair in Cross-Cultural Communication, moderated a panel on China’s economy for the China Institute in Manhattan on Friday, March 14. Treaster hosted the talk with panelists Paul Bennett, Chief Economist, NYSE Euronext; Jay Bryson, Global Economist, Wachovia Corporation; and Donald H. Straszheim, Vice Chairman, Roth Capital Partners LLC.
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Internationally Renowned Ecuadorian photojournalist Pablo Corral Vega to join Knight Center as Resident Professional for Spring
Ecuadorian photojournalist Pablo Corral Vega will serve as a Resident Professional at the Knight Center for International Media during the Spring semester of 2008. During his residency, Mr. Vega will print a 60 image version of his larger exhibit entitled 25 and consisting of as many years of photojournalism across the world. He will work with students and faculty at the School of Communication on printing the exhibit and organizing international visual journalism panels that will discuss the potential of photojournalism to have cross-border impact.
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University of Miami School of Communication Announces Knight Chair Appointments
Coral Gables, FL (Jan. 16, 2008) - The School of Communication of the University of Miami announced today the appointment of two internationally renowned journalists to prestigious Knight Chairs in Journalism endowed by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. With the appointments, the University of Miami becomes the 21st institution in the nation to have Knight Chairs.
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI KNIGHT CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDIA OPENS CONVERGENCE LAB
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UM Knight Center for International Media Designs America’s Newspaper of the Future
Coral Gables, FL (Nov. 20, 2007) The Knight Center for International Media held a public symposium titled “The New American Newspaper” on Thursday, Nov. 15 in the School of Communication’s Shojaee Hall. The symposium consisted of a wide-ranging conversation with industry professionals about the state of American newspapers and websites and how a more visual approach to information delivery might extend the reach of newspapers in our society.
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Tenzin Sonam and Maggie Steber begin work as first Resident Professionals.
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One Water wins AMAP Prize of €2000 at EcoVision 2007 in Palermo, Italy
The feature version of One Water directed by Sanjeev Chatterjee and Ali Habashi was awarded the AMAP PRIZE FOR THE BEST DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE WATER RESOURCES of € 2.000. The prize was given for "...the clear visual synthesis, got by shooting in 14 countries in the world, for the fundamental contribution of the water in our life." To learn more about the EcoVision Festival visit
http://www.ecovisionfestival.com/
One Water is a collaboration among the UM School of Communication, College of Engineering and the Frost School of Music. The Knight Foundation is a major supporter of the project.
One Water The Feature Near Completion
Film premieres to special invitation only audiences in Coral Gables, New York City and Washington, D.C.
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Visual Journalism student Gaby Bruna reports from Haiti
SoC visual journalism student Gaby Bruna reports from Haiti and photographs the work of the Miller School of Medicine's Project Medishare and the Millennium Villages.
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Knight Center produces an educational multimedia project with World Press Photo
The Knight Center and World Press Photo have collaborated on a groundbreaking multimedia educational project allowing visitors to the world press photo site to hear exclusive interviews with this year first place award winners explore the winning photographs using. Low bandwidth CD-ROM version of this project will be available soon.
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Antonio and Candida have Dreams of Luck
Brazilian photojournalist Paula Sampaio has been documenting the life of people living along two of the most controversial roads in Brazil, The Transamazonian highway spanning the country east to west through the dense Amazon jungle and the Belém-Brasília highway, known as one of the the country's toughest road to travel.
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Willakuy.com Launched
Willakuy is a community-based news aggregator Web site that displays content from Spanish-language newspapers in the Americas and Spain. Willakuy stands for “news” in the Quechua language. The Web site links together a virtual community of users interested in Latin America and Latino studies.
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http://www.willakuy.com
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI CREATES $10 MILLION INTERNATIONAL MEDIA CENTER
Knight Center will Help News Cross Borders Worldwide; Two Endowed Chairs Established
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