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Professors’ Film About Three Globe-Trotting Female Photojournalists to Screen at Major Film Festival
Professors’ Film About Three Globe-Trotting Female Photojournalists to Screen at Major Film Festival
Photo by Laura Whiddon.
School of Communication Wins Top Honors at 2011 Online News Association Awards & SPJ
School of Communication Wins Top Honors at 2011 Online News Association Awards & SPJ
Photo by Mariella Furrer
Beyond Assignment photojournalist Mariella Furrer creates unique body of work on child sexual abuse
Mariella Furrer has been working for eight years on a body of work on the subject of child sexual abuse. Her work has potential to bring awareness to this very difficult subject matter.
School of Communication multimedia students shoot in Kenya for “My Story, My Goal.”
School of Communication Wins Best of Show for ‘My Story, My Goal’
The University of Miami School of Communication has won a “Best of Show” award from The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) for “My Story, My Goal,” a project sponsored by the school’s Knight Center for International Media. The award was announced on August 10 during AEJMC’s annual conference in St. Louis, Missouri.
Sanjeev Chatterjee
Professor Sanjeev Chatterjee Receives Fulbright Award to Teach Multimedia Storytelling in India
Professor Sanjeev Chatterjee to Teach Multimedia Storytelling in India with a Focus on Effective Ecological Wastewater Treatment in the East Kolkata Wetlands
Image from video by Lauren Whiddon
Colorful But Colorblind wins Sigma Delta Chi Award
The winner of the 2010 Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism in the Digital Media Presentation (Independent) category is Colorful But Colorblind, by the School of Communication, University of Miami, Transitions and the Knight Center for International Media.
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Graduate Program Recognized for Visual Storytelling
Knight Chair in Visual Journalism, Rich Beckman, talks about the contribution of the School of Communication’s graduate students in multimedia journalism, their contributions to the award winning My Story, My Goal project and their job prospects nationally.
Still taken from One Water, Ed Talavera.
Knight Center To Participate in Second Water Choices Forum at University of Miami
The Knight Center for International Media will participate in Florida Earth Foundation’s Water Choices Forum II on February 28, hosted by the University of Miami.
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Top Business Leaders & Policy Experts Discuss Smart Global Health Policy at School of Communication
What is smart global health? How can businesses here and around the world get involved? And why should everyone care? Top business leaders and policy experts will discuss…
Photo By: Matthew Coomer
Grizzly Bears, Dirty Rivers and a Chat with a Nobel Prize Winner
They talked about grizzly bears, river pollution and how disease thrives in places where the drinking water is laced with bacteria and most of the people don’t have toilets. The setting was…
One Water Workshop Screening
Friday, September 24 at 6:30 PM at the Miami Science Museum
3280 South Miami Ave.
Miami, FL 33129
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One Water Awards
- Winner of Best Cinematography Award and Winner Honorable Mention, Documentary Feature
Fargo Film Festival
Fargo, ND, March 2009 - Short listed for Awards Jury at 7th Annual Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
7th Annual Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Nevada City, CA, Jan. 10, 2009 - Honorable Mention Inspirational Excellence Award, Documentary Competition, at Bayou City
Inspiration Film Festival
Houston, Texas, 2008 - Winner, Best Documentary at Foyle Film Festival, 2008
The Northern Ireland International Film Festival - Winner, Best Film on Sustainable Development at Cinemambiente 2008
Turin, Italy - Winner, AMAP Prize
Ecovision, 2007 - Official Program Selection
4th World Water Forum, 2006 - Winner of Documentary Award of Excellence and Best of Competition in Technical Merit
Broadcast Education Association, Festival of Media Arts, 2004
Student Awards
- ONA Online Video Journalism, Student Category
Knight Center for International Media - "My Story, My Goal" - SSND Foundation Scholarship, 2009
Brian Schlansky, Recipient - $10,000 Travel Grant from the Pulitzer Center
Paul Franz, Recipient
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Rich Beckman discusses world cities project
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Joseph B. Treaster discusses 1h2o.org
Dia Kontaxis to serve as Editor of One City
School of Communication associate professor and the director of the Motion Picture Program Konstantia "Dia" Kontaxis will serve as editor for One City, the short film currently in production at the Knight Center for International Media. The film explores imminent threats, such as pollution, overpopulation, and encroaching globalization, to contemporary cities around the world. Filming has been competed in Sao Paolo and Mumbai. Other locations include Miami, Florida, Masdar City in the in the United Arab Emirates and Petra, Jordan.
Dia is a filmmaker and media artist who has created films about artists including Carmen Herrera, Anna Valentina Murch and Jose Bedia, among others. Her works have been screened at festivals, museums and galleries around the world including Rome, Venice at the Art Biennale, New York at the Tribeca Film Festival, and in Montreal at Art Fifa.
Knight Center’s Sanjeev Chatterjee Opens Inaugural TEDxMIA Event
The audience of about a 100 people sat in the dimly lit room and leaned in their seats, attentively listening as Sanjeev Chatterjee stood in the spotlight and told a story from his childhood that was animated in the slideshow behind him. It was a...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon features Knight Center MDG project at G20 Summit in Korea
The University of Miami’s Knight Center Millennium Development Goal’s Project, “My Story, My Goal” was featured at the G20 Summit in Korea on November 11.
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Anchor Projects
The Knight Center for International Media uses the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as a framework for defining the world’s most pressing issues. The Center works on major anchor projects that are focused on an underreported issue of global significance. Each project addresses multiple MDGs over significant blocks of time.