SJMC to host first of the emerging power of Hispanic media Oct. 18


The School of Journalism and Mass Communication at FIU is hosting the daylong Hispanics and the Media: The Emerging Power Conference beginning at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 18, in WUC 221 at Biscayne Bay Campus.

The conference is part of the school’s first-of-its-kind Hispanic Communication Studies Conference Series.

Admission is free for students with an ID, faculty and members of the media. General admission is $50 and includes access to the entire schedule.

Registration is still open but space is limited.

Doug Darfield, executive vice president of Research and Strategic Insights for the Spanish-language Telemundo network, which is sponsoring the event, will deliver the first keynote address of the day at 9:30 a.m. Ed Fernandez from the E.W. Scripps Television Station Group will speak at 1 p.m.

Five panels are also on schedule and will feature executives and academics from Telemundo, VOXXI.com, The Miami Herald, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, the National Association of Hispanics Journalists, Zubi Advertising, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UF and FIU, among others.

The conference will be viewable online.