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Knight Center-affiliate projects win Broadcast Education Association awards
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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.
"Witnessing History – Election 2008 at the West Grove,” a multimedia website created by the Visual Journalism program to document Miami’s historic West Grove community on Election Day 2008, won first place in the Student Interactive Multimedia Group category.
“It is an honor when our students win a prestigious award, but the real reward is that we were able to give a voice to so many people,” said Rich Beckman, Knight Chair in Visual Journalism. “The project is a small step on the way to building a program that makes a difference in the world,” said professor Beckman.
“Fish at Bay,” entered by Greg Linch, one of the students involved, won third place in the Interactive Multimedia Individual Competition. This collaboration among the School’s spring 2008 interactive storytelling class, taught by visual journalism professor Kim Grinfeder and print journalism professor Sam Terilli, shows the decline of fishing stock around Biscayne Bay, Fla., through photographs, video, information graphics and a series of five in-depth stories.
The “World Press Photo,” a multimedia Web site project completed by Visual Journalism professors Loup Langton, Jim Virga, Grinfeder and retired professor Lelen Robert, also won Best of Category and Best of Festival for faculty in the 2008 BEA Festival of Media Arts.
Langton, director of UM Visual Journalism program, said he is looking forward to returning to Amsterdam this May to collaborate for the third year with World Press Photo. “We hope to produce an even stronger piece of work,” he said.
For more information about the BEA Awards, visit: http://beaweb.org
For more Knight Center’s projects, click here http://knight.miami.edu/index.php/site/projects
Posted on February 16, 2009
