bayview spring 2014

SJMC Alumni Fuel the Heat

The Sports Issue

FIU Sports Communicators

SJMC Hosts (and wins) dotMiami

The FIU SJMC Alumni Magazine

VOLUME 2

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Letter from the DeanContributors

Globally Inclined

Meet your Professor: Diament

Tenure and Promotion

SJMC Events: dotMiami, HCC and LLK

Strategic Communicators

Cover Story: SJMC @ the Heat

Sports Journalists

Alternative Sports at FIU

Faculty in Sports

Current Student Highlights

Samuel FreedmansBreaking the LineA Young Journalists Vision

Faculty Notes

Class Notes

PUBLISHER DEAN RAUL REISMANAGING EDITOR JULIET PINTOART DIRECTOR ELIZABETH MARSHCO-EDITOR CHRIS DELBONI

ALTAGRACE GUSTAVE CAMILO LONDONO

NATALIE MEROLA STEPHAN USECHE BRITTNY VALDES

STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER NATALIE MEROLA LAYOUT

& DESIGN ALTAGRACE GUSTAVE CAMILO LONDONO

NATALIE MEROLA STEPHAN USECHE BRITTNY VALDES SOCIAL MEDIA

COORDINATORS NATALIE MEROLA CAMILO LONDONO

COPY EDITOR CHRIS DELBONI CAMILO LONDONO

LOGO DESIGN NATALIE MEROLA

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STAFF WRITERS &PHOTOGRAPHY

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The ContributorsCamilo Londono A student at FIUs SJMC whos majoring in journalism, Londonos work is greatly influcenced by literature,

music and design. After

graduating in May 2014, he plans to attend graduate school for creative direc-tion. His interests include the

visual arts, reading, playing

tennis and skateboarding.

Londono has published

in the Miami Herald and

Palm Beach Post.

Brittny Valdes Valdes admiration for words

along with her passion to discuss the issues facing her

community have led her to

pursue a career in journal-ism. Valdes, 25, has published

in the Miami Herald, Sun

Sentinel, and Palm Beach Post.

In January 2014, she will be

a reporter for the Scripps

Treasure Coast newspapers.

Valdes wrote the cover story

about who works behind the

scenes at the Miami Heat.

Dear SJMC Friends,

Please allow me to introduce the second issue of BayView magazine. Here at the SJMC, we are all about innovation, from our curriculum and courses and our award-winning faculty research, to the way we prepare the students to face a changing communications landscape by placing them at innova-tive organizations.

It gives me great pleasure to share with you that the Knight Foundation has chosen the SJMC at FIU as the site of its first ever Knight Innovator in Residence position! A generous $1.2 million endow-ment plus a $150,000 presidential grant from the Knight Foundation will allow our School to bring to campus innovators from the tech industry, who will bring fresh thinking and share with students and faculty some of the possibilities brought about by this new digital age of communications. The Knight Innovator in Residence will develop activities in teaching and training for both students and faculty, such as classes and workshops, and mentor students on innovative, entrepreneurial projects. Were hoping that, besides bringing in fresh thinking, this endowment and position will have a transforma-tional impact on the School.

Im happy to report that our innovative (and brand new) majors in Digital Media and Broadcasting are a big success. Our industry partnerships with the Discovery Channel and MasterCard, among other companies, have allowed students to get much needed internships and hands-on experiences along the way. We also started up BOLD, the student-run and faculty-supervised SJMC Strategic Commu-nications agency.

This issue of BayView, once again all done by the students under the supervision of SJMC faculty, focuses on sports communication. Please read it carefully, since it was put together by us especially for you. After you browse BayView, please take a moment to drop us a note. Wed love to hear from you!

Cheers,

Raul Reis

Altagrace GustaveA staff writer for BayView

and a senior at FIU, Gustave is

majoring in journalism, French

and psychology. She is the

president of the FIU chapter

of Pi Delta Phi, the National

French Honor Society and

was also a press intern at the Consulate General of France

in Miami. For her reporting in

this issue, she went to Fort Meyers for the Quidditch

Eagle Cup Match, held at

Florida Gulf Coast University.

Natalie MerolaPhotographer and social

media coordinator at BayView

magazine, Merolas photo-graphed talent, assisted in layout design, interviewed

sources and coordinated

strategic social media tools to

capture the achievements of

the SJMCs current students

and alumni. In her spare time,

she sews and keeps up with the latest trends in fashion

design. Betsey Johnson is her

fashion inspiration and muse.

Stephan UsecheStephan Useche has been

passionate about sports and

journalism from a young age.

She says swimming taught her the discipline to work hard

for her goals, something that

has helped her as a journal-ist. Working on the second

issue of BayView was an

experience that allowed her

to explore different areas

of communication, and also

see how many other SJMC alumni have mixed their

passions with their careers.

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G L O B A L L Y I N C L I N E D Literally.

The SJMCs newest arrivals bring a world of knowledge to students.

By Altagrace L. Gustave

Ivette Diaz is the new marketing & communications coordinator for the SJMC, and despite her workload, she is still able to simplify exactly what she does. In a nutshell, my job is to promote everything that pertains to the school, she said. Diaz, an SJMC grad, received her B.S. in journalism in 1996. She has more than 17 years of experience in journalism and in public relations, as she was the media and public relations specialist for the City of Miami Beach and has acted as the city spokesperson for various English and Spanish-language television, radio and print outlets. Diaz appreciates the SJMCs abil-ity to teach students every aspect there is to know in communication. We really are at the cutting edge of communication and teaching students journalism, advertising, public relations and digital media, Diaz said.

Colombian-born Leonardo Ferreira, FIUs new Worlds Ahead Scholar in Interna-tional Communication, directs international programs at the SJMC. Ferreiras goals include improving the quality of already successful study-abroad programs at the school and increasing the number of programs, while enabling a more hands-on, affordable experience for students. Ferreira has a surprising reason for being at FIU, given his appreciation for diversity. I wanted to come to a place where I am no longer that different, he said. Ferreira has a masters in telecommunications, a Ph.D. from Michigan State and also a law degree from the Universidad Nacional de Colom-bia, in Bogot. Ferreira published a book in 2006, Countries of Silence: The Story of Latin American Journalism, about the disenfranchised populations of Latin America.

Ivette Diaz, Leonardo Ferreira, Kathy Fitzpatrick, Haki Halisi, Susan Jacobson, Victoria Shorten and Kurt Wise are the most recent members of FIUs SJMC family, all with diverse backgrounds and experiences

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Though she has vacationed in Florida for years, Kathy Fitzpatrick has officially made the Sunshine State her new place of residence. As the new associate dean of graduate studies and research and a professor at the SJMC, Fitzpatrick has been in academia for more than 20 years. One of Fitzpatricks goals is to introduce students to opportunities they normally would not know about, especially if they are interested in more globalized careers as journalists or as members of corporations, advertising/public relations firms, non-governmental organizations, the Foreign Service or other organiza-tions. Fitzpatrick said she is both impressed and optimistic about FIU and its SJMC family. The intellectual capital here is amazing, she said. And everyone is eager to move the school forward.

The SJMC has a lot of projects in the works for students and faculty, and Haki Halisi, the new director of development, is here to make sure the SJMC has all the fund-ing it needs to make these dreams become realities. These include projects such as the Media Innovations Complex at the Biscayne Bay Campus, where students would understand the concept of an integrated newsroom and see what journalism has become in the 21st century. Having that facility built while Im here would be a major accomplish-ment, and its my job to raise the money to make that happen, he said. Halisi, a Howard University alumnus who majored in psychology, has experience in communication: While at Ho