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1H2O now accepting entires for online video editing contest, Water Remixer Challenge
1H2O screenings reach thousands of children in India
The effort was a partnership between the Knight Center for International Media at the School of Communication, University of Miami, and Pratham and ASER Centre in India, in collaboration with ITVS International.
Knight Center extends reach of World Press Photo
A team of visual journalists at the University of Miami School of Communication has successfully launched, for the third consecutive year, a multimedia presentation of the stories behind the photographs that won the World Press Photo awards, the world’s largest and most prestigious annual contest for photojournalists.
Knight Center for International Media announces new Resident Professional
1H2O.org extended video contest through Aug. 15
The first contest, One Take, is a video monologue, recorded in any language.
Thousands of children in India watched “1H2O” in celebration of World Water Day
We work with children all over India, so when we received a package with a DVD copy of “1H2O” from Miami, we wondered how we could show these kids the documentary and use the screening as an opportunity to find out what they thought about water issues.
Knight Center’s spring workshops end on a high note
Social network guru, Alex de Carvalho, led the last of six workshops the Knight Center hosted this semester.
Multimedia journalism workshops focus on telling the world’s most underreported stories
An international multimedia workshop sponsored by the Knight Center for International Media was held at Hong Kong Baptist University from April 13-17, 2009. The International Multimedia Workshops for Ethical Reporting on the World’s Most Underreported Issues attracted journalism professors from all over the Asia, including China, Singapore, India, the Philippines, Thailand, Mongolia and Taiwan.
New partnership brings judging of major online journalism awards to UM
Pablo Corral Vega celebrates World Water Day with Knight Center’s friends
Martin Sheen narrates “One Water” for television
The movie is a movement - UM launches campaign for World Water Day
Sanjeev Chatterjee, the Knight Center’s executive director, said the campaign has a strong social media component that allows people to carry the message further.
Daniel Cloud is Knight Center’s latest addition
Cloud said he has high expectations for the job and is enjoying the city and warm weather.
Knight board meets in Miami
The Knight Center for International Media’s Advisory Board met this week at the University of Miami School of Communication to evaluate and discuss current and new projects.
Media literacy social network - ‘Milieu’ - is launched
Knight Center-affiliate projects win Broadcast Education Association awards
Two University of Miami School of Communication student multimedia projects placed in the top three of the 2009 Broadcast Education Association’s Student Competitions. The BEA Festival and Competitions provide a national refereed exhibition of faculty and student creative activities and is a national showcase for their work.
UM SoC students cover Special Olympics in Idaho
Thirty-two University of Miami students are involved in a multimedia project to showcase the performance of Special Olympics athletes during the World Winter Games, in Idaho in February.
Special Olympics coverage - Watch here
Knight Chair joins training workshops in India and Sri Lanka
Under the auspices of a US Department of State grant, faculty members from the University of Miami School of Communication went to India and Sri Lanka to conduct a series of training workshops for journalists and non-government organizations working to address HIV/AIDS issues.
World Water Day events begin
The events will start with a special viewing of the film at the University of Maryland’s International Center for Media and the Public Agenda, hosted on March 3 by the director of ICMPA, Susan Moeller, and a panel about water the next day at the Center for International Media Assistance.
Special screening of “One Water” celebrates impact on human lives around the world
The Kultkino Atelier Theater in Basel, Switzerland, will be screening a special session of the film “One Water” on Saturday, Jan. 31, as part of the 2009 Basel_Karlsruhe Forum on Educational and Societal TV and Media.
SoC and the Knight Center lead panel on social entrepreneurship and water
The Knight Center for International Media participated significantly in this year’s Global Business Forum at the University of Miami through a screening of “One Water” and a panel about social entrepreneurship and water.
School of Communication students create media packages for Special Olympics Athletes
Four video teams from the UM School of Communication captured the U.S. arrival of the Special Olympics torch, the Flame of Hope, on Jan. 13. The torch arrived in Miami via Jet Ski near Ocean Drive and 10th Avenue in South Beach, where Special Olympic Athletes welcomed the flame and carried it across the Mac Arthur Causeway to downtown Miami’s Bayfront Park for a ceremony.
Beyond Bootcamp: A successful premiere at UM
The much-anticipated Beyond Bootcamp workshops at the University of Miami School of Communication brought more than 70 participants from around the world for an intense multimedia training.
After a successful decade at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Rich Beckman, multimedia “guru” and now UM Knight Chair in Visual Journalism, brought the series of six workshops to South Florida.
Knight Center starts production of “Women in Photojournalism” documentary
Gaby Bruna: A Success Story
“One Water” wins another top international award
Since its premiere at the closing night of the Miami International Film Festival in March, “One Water” has screened in many venues across the world and won major awards, including Best Film on Sustainable Development at Cinemaambiente in Italy, and Best Feature on Environmental Preservation at the 5th Annual Artivist Film Festival, both this year.
Knight Center’s board member wins award
Knight Center sponsors photo workshop in Chile
Knight Center launches World Cities Anchor Project
Miami Short Film Festival and the Knight Center bring 300 local public school students to UM
Knight Chair Lecture series gets a successful start
UM students create website to document historical 2008 elections
About 40 University of Miami students went to the West Grove on Election Day to document a historic moment, where a predominantly African American community was voting for Democrat Barack Obama, a presidential candidate they hoped would bring change to their lives.
“One Water” Wins at Italian Film Festival
Coral Gables, FL (Oct. 28, 2008) – “One Water” continues to impress at numerous film festivals around the world. Torino Italy’s Cinemaambiente Film Festival recently gave “One Water” the award for Best Film on Sustainable Development.
Water is part of young students’ curriculum in Miami
Four classes, from first to fourth grades, of about 70 children filled five rows of the Cosford Cinema to watch and discuss scenes from "One Water," a documentary filmed in 15 countries about ways people use and misuse water around the globe.
School of Communication of Universidad de los Andes in Chile visits UM
Dean of the School of Communication of Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile, María Ignacia Errázuriz, visited the University of Miami School of Communication and the Knight Center for International Media to meet with different professors and discuss partnership agreements.
This visit is part of her Eisenhower Fellowship, which awarded this year 19 fellows from Latin America to prepare future leaders, who would then be able to produce changes in their different fields.
“One Water” to screen at Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival
Knight Chair in Visual Journalism will be keynote speaker at ACP/CMA convention
Rich Beckman will replace Brian Storm, president of MediaStorm, a multimedia production studio based in New York City, at National College Media Convention this year.
Beckman, Knight Center for International Media Chair in Visual Journalism, will give the opening keynote address at the 87th Annual ACP/CMA convention to be held in Kansas City this Thursday, Oct. 30.
Top researcher of terrorism and the Internet will visit UM
One of the top researchers of terrorism on the Internet will be at the School of Communication next Thursday to discuss his latest findings with students and faculty.
Professor Gabriel Weimann, founding chair of the department of communication at Haifa University in Israel, is currently a distinguished visiting professor at the School of International Service (SIS), at the American University, in Washington, D.C.
SoC and the Knight Center tie relationship with top Chinese University
By Melissa Rubi Falcón
Posted on October 17, 2008
Knight Center for International Media Executive Director Sanjeev Chatterjee and School of Communication Dean Sam L Grogg traveled to Beijing last week, through an invitation to visit the prestigious Tsinghua University, considered one of China’s most renowned universities.
On Oct. 9, Grogg and Chatterjee presented a multi-media lecture and discussion on “Communication in the Connected World” to an audience of advanced graduate students and faculty of Tsinghua University’s School of Communication.
Photography and Social Change panel attracts large crowd
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Posted on October 6, 2008
About 100 people attended the Photography and Social Change panel discussion held by the Knight Center for International Media at the School of Communication, University of Miami. The panelists were acclaimed photojournalists Pablo Corral Vega, Maggie Steber, Shahidul Alam and Ami Vitale.
One Water screens at a South Beach event
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Photo by: Lauren Janetos
Posted on October 3, 2008
The non-verbal version of the documentary “One Water” shared the spotlight with eco-friendly fashion and a new children’s TV show at Raleigh Hotel on Saturday, Sept. 27, for an event called “Water, Water Everywhere,” hosted by Fertile Earth Foundation, which draws on entertainment to educate about the environment.
UM student was a panelist at the distinguished Salzburg Trilogue
Posted on Oct. 1, 2008
School of Communication graduate student Dana M. Janbek represented the Salzburg Academy in Austria this summer at the Salzburg Trilogue, an annual forum organized by the Bertelsmann Stiftung Executive Board and the Austrian Ministry of European and International Affairs, held concurrently with the Salzburg Festival. The “Trilogue” goes one step further than a “dialogue,” as it represents high level members from three areas: business, politics and the arts.
Knight Center launches workshop series
Posted on Sept. 26, 2008
The Knight Center for International Media’s series of technology and new media workshops launched successfully with a video shooting training, led by Chuck Fadely, a visual journalist pioneer at The Miami Herald.
Fadely discussed how visual elements complement a reporter’s story online and taught students to shoot video for web news using a mini-DV camera, Canon HV-20. He also explored basic techniques about lighting and framing.
Pablo Corral Vega opens special photo exhibit
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Posted on Sept. 25, 2008
About 50 people, including students and faculty, attended the opening of “25,” a photo exhibit celebrating Pablo Corral Vega’s 25 years of work in photography and photojournalism
The exhibit opened on Sept. 25 in the University of Miami School of Communication Common Ground Courtyard with a short introduction by Sanjeev Chatterjee, vice dean of and executive director of the Knight Center for International Media, which hosted the event.
Knight Center partners with Helium.com
The partnership among the University of Miami’s Knight Center for International Media, the Independent Television Service and Helium is generating strong interest from writers across the world.
Newspaper of the Future
TAB, a “newspaper of the future” prototype created by eminent photojournalist Maggie Steber and University of Miami students last fall, continues to draw recognition to this day.
Living with Malaria
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Sheilah (pronounced Shay-lee) is a Class 8 student at Iguhu Primary School in Kakamega, Kenya. Like many children, she has great ambition and dreams of one day being a doctor. Also like many other African children, she has malaria.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, malaria is responsible for as many as 500 million infections and one million deaths worldwide, many of them young children.
Knight chairs travel to capital and New York City
Partnership will bring together public broadcasters from four nations
Advisory board member speaks on Cuban-Jewish communities
Knight Chair for Cross Cultural Communication hosts panel on China’s economy
Knight Center for International Media sponsors World Press photo exhibit
University of Miami Knight Center for International Media opens convergence lab
La Escuela de Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Miami anuncia sus nuevas Cátedras Knight
Knight Center for International Media designs America’s newspaper of the future
University of Miami Knight Center for International Media develops Spanish language news site
Knight Center for International Media presents South America: Untold Stories
Knight Center contributes to Salzburg Academy
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Posted on July 25, 2008
Sanjeev Chatterjee, executive director of the Knight Center for International Media and vice dean of the University of Miami’s School of Communication, is taking three graduate students to the 2008 Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change.
Knight Center meets with international broadcasters at conference in South Africa
By Walyce Almeida
Posted on July 8, 2008
Broadcasters from various countries agreed at the International Broadcasters Leadership Summit to raise the public’s consciousness about water by collaborating with the 1H20 campaign, a new global movement.
The Independent Television Service (ITVS), a U.S. based organization that supports independent producers, and the University of Miami’s Knight Center for International Media hosted the summit, which took place on May 9 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Knight Chairs travel to capital and New York City
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.
Partnership brings together public broadcasters to promote awareness on the global water crisis
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.
‘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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ecuadorian photojournalist Pablo Corral Vega joins 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.
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.
University of Miami Knight Center for International Media opens convergence lab
Coral Gables, FL (Dec. 13, 2007) – The Knight Center for International Media at the University of Miami School of Communication officially opened the doors of their Convergence Lab and Observational Research Suite during an evening reception and open house held on Dec. 12. UM President Donna Shalala and School of Communication Dean, Sam L Grogg, welcomed guests for a preview of the lab and its many capabilities for learning and professional development.
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.
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.
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.
For more information visit: World Press Photo
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.
More at http://www.willakuy.com
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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One Water the feature near completion
Film premieres to special invitation only audiences in Coral Gables, New York City and Washington, D.C.
Resident Professional is back in Miami for a special photo exhibit and panel
Knight Center for International Media’s third Resident Professional, Ecuadorian photojournalist Pablo Corral Vega, will soon be back in Miami for his exhibit, “25,” which opens on Sept. 25 at the University of Miami School of Communication’s Common Ground Courtyard.
The exhibit is a celebration of his 25 years as a photographer and photojournalist. Corral’s work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine and the New York Times Sunday Magazine.
Herald reviews “One Water”
One Water the movie Miami Herald Review | PDF format
