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At one point in his life, after he joined the army to escape a girlfriend who broke his heart, after he left his wife for gambling away their money, after he was kicked out of the military for abusing alcohol, Aaron Alvin Sr. lived in Memphis, homeless and addicted to [...]
Three FIU students from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s (SJMC) Global Strategic Communications graduate program were awarded mentored research scholarships from locally based literary company Jewish Book Summaries (JBS). The students are preparing, creating and implementing a comprehensive marketing communications plan with JBS during the summer 2011 semester. JBS [...]
This was a proud week for approximately 3,600 FIU students. Joined by family and friends, the fall graduating class of 2010 received their degrees from President Mark B. Rosenberg in six ceremonies Dec. 13 and Dec. 14 at the U.S. Century Bank Arena. For highlights of the first ceremony (which [...]
More than 2,100 students from FIU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication had the opportunity Oct. 20 to meet executives and professionals from the E.W. Scripps Company and Scripps Howard Foundation during Scripps Day 2010. The day-long event allowed students to boost interview skills, obtain career coaching, network with media [...]
During Spring Break, advertising senior Lorene Bauduy traveled to her native country to report on life after the storm for Haitian college students. Bauduy is one of only a handful of student volunteers involved in developing a pilot program to use Flip video cameras and blogging to document life after the [...]
Gary McCormick, director of partnership development for HGTV, will keynote student award ceremony By Heather Radi-Bermudez As part of Earth Day’s 40th Anniversary, green initiatives and sustainability will be the theme of the 2010 Communications Week, scheduled for April 5-9 on the Biscayne Bay Campus. The annual FIU School of [...]
The School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) at Florida International University has created a program of Hispanic Communication Studies to address communication trends and issues relevant to the U.S. Hispanic community. The new program builds upon an already-existing set of courses taught at the FIU SJMC covering Hispanic market [...]
The journalist served as chair of the journalism and broadcasting sequence at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. A service is scheduled for Nov. 7 at BBC. Former School of Journalism and Mass Communication professor Mike McQueen passed away at age 52 on Oct. 25, 2009, from complications of [...]
By Susan Feinberg At a time when thousands of the nation’s newspaper newsroom jobs are being cut due to the economic recession, FIU’s journalism program is adapting and thriving. Students are still flocking to the program, and applications have even increased slightly. “Ambitious and creative young people see this as [...]
