Washington DC – “A Different Story Out of Haiti”

By Sam Grogg

The University of Miami School of Communication’s Knight Center for International Media and The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) launched today Our Global Challenges: A Series of Dialogues on the Most Pressing Global Issues of our Time. The first dialogue focused on Meeting the Challenge of the Millennium Development Goals in Haiti: A Progress Report from the Poorest Country in the Americas.

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1H2O screenings reach thousands of children in India

In celebration of World World Water Day 2009, more than 20,000 children in 19 states in 150 locations in India viewed the documentary 1H2O, a film that explores the ever-changing relationship between human beings and water as we face a world water crisis of proportions we have never before seen.

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.

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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.

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Knight Center for International Media announces new Resident Professional

Photographer and documentary filmmaker Irene Carolina Herrera has been selected to become the fourth Knight Resident Professional. Herrera, 32, was born in Venezuela, raised in Miami, and now lives in Tokyo, Japan, where she is an assistant professor in film and media arts at Temple University, Japan Campus.

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1H2O.org extended video contest through Aug. 15

The Knight Center for International Media and ITVS International have have extended the deadline for the first in a series of video contests as part of the 1H2O-Campaign 2009, launched on World Water Day to encourage discussion and awareness of water issues around the world.

The first contest, One Take, is a video monologue, recorded in any language.

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Resident Professional Program

The Knight Center for International Media has created a program of Resident Professionals, where journalists, documentary filmmakers, non-fiction writers and photographers have the opportunity to spend up to one year at our facilities completing projects and interacting with faculty and students.

We welcome inquiries for the Resident Professional position on a regular basis and continue to receive and review them for Knight Center’s grant period ending in July 2010. We anticipate filing up to two Resident Professional slots in this time period.

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL BY OCT. 15, 2009 TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE NEXT RESIDENT PROFESSIONAL.

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