Magazines designed by JMS students, Spring 2010

These are a few magazines selected from the final projects by the News Design class, spring 2010.

JMS graduate research paper wins first place in national competition

Galina Tishchenko, a former JMS graduate student, won the first place in the 2010 BEA International Division research paper competition (open category) for her paper co-authored with Dr. Xiaopeng Wang, assistant professor at the Department of Journalism and Media Studies.

Tishchenko graduated from the Department of Journalism and Media Studies with an M.A. degree in 2009. As part of her applied research project, the paper, A comparative analysis of the broadcast coverage of local news in the Russian Federation and the United States of America in the paradigm of attention span theory, compares the broadcast programing and editorial content of local TV news between two nations. Dr. Xiaopeng Wang and Dr. Tony Silvia served in her graduate committee.

The Broadcast Education Association (BEA) is a national professional organization for broadcast educators, scholars and researchers. The 2010 BEA International Division research paper competition included many excellent papers. The competition was strong. Each paper went through a rigorous blind review by three reviewers. The top papers were accepted according to the blind review results.

In the open category, the other winners include Shuhua Zhou, University of Alabama, and Xin Zhong, Renmin University of China, “Olympics Coverage: Projection of Professionalism and Olympic Goals” (Second Place); and Daekyung Kim, Idaho State University, and Junwoo Song, Idaho State University “The Civic Duty to Keep Informed Revisited in Korea: News Media Exposure and Civic Duty” (Third Place).

The BEA International Division winning papers will be presented at the BEA 2010 convention in April in Las Vegas, Nevada.

JMS graduate students release the Tampa Bay Media Watch Report

Tampa Bay Media Watch Report 2009

In the Media Convergence class, fall 2009, five graduate students from the Journalism and Media Studies Department selected local news media organizations to examine the current state and challenges the organizations face under the converging media environment. The Tampa Bay Media Watch Report 2009 came from this class project, covering four local newspapers and one radio station. We hope our efforts can contribute to the ongoing discussions about the changing news media industry.

Gabriel L. Enriquez: Connecting con Cuba

Enriquez's Applied Research Project: Connecting con Cuba

Connecting con Cuba: An optimistic perspective of how new media are supporting social change in the Cuban community.

Gabriel L. Enriquez

University of South Florida St. Petersburg

Multimedia project by Sylvia Lim

The Herald Tribune published Sylvia Lim’s multimedia story, “Group wants OK to raise chickens in Sarasota,” produced at the Media Convergence class, fall 2009.

Group wants OK to raise chickens in Sarasota

By SYLVIA LIM

SARASOTA — – Fran Tiner reaches into a white coop he built for his chickens and gently grabs one of the two chicks he recently obtained. These are new, he explains, to replace the ones he had earlier.

Those turned out to be roosters, which are noisy. Tiner wants to be considerate to his neighbors and drive home his point: Having chickens is not that different from owning dogs or cats.

But getting his neighbors — and Sarasota city commissioners — to agree will not be easy.

Keeping chickens in the city violates a decade-old ordinance against raising poultry or pigs and Continue Reading…

How-to video season 2

One of the projects for the Media Convergence course is to produce a one-minute how-to video. The purpose of this project is to use various camera shots and video editing techniques in storytelling. Here are a few useful how-to instructions produced in fall 2009.

How to poi by Sylvia Lim

How to be an AND1 player by Manuel Carrasco

How to make an artistic indie film by Leigh Armstrong

Marc Vallin: Hippos eat birthday cake

Why is it that some people migrate to Florida and always look and act like the folks that visit just to get that rosy half-baked glow before lining up at the airport, ready to head back north of the Mason-Dixon and others move to the state and are immediately assimilated? Being a Floridian is not so much a matter of living in a certain state as much as it is living with a certain state of mind.

Many people come to visit a Florida that they believe is the land of the mouse and beaches ringing with the sounds of tropical steel drums. While that is not a bad impression on the surface, Florida is so much more for us natives. We are never quite sure when we might run into an alligator or rattlesnake on a bike trail or get whisked off by a friend on an adventure that oddly resembles trespassing, only to end up in a hidden graveyard or snacking on a critter that was alive no more than
an hour prior.

This book began out of a bit of spare time I had over the winter break. Though feeling blessed to finally have a breather from the stresses of school and work, it seems that my idle mind becomes quickly discontented. I began picking up books about Florida and I realized that most of the literature is either contained in travel books or in books that simply scratch the surface of all that Florida has to offer. For this book, I wanted more. I wanted to capture the true essence of Florida as experienced
by a native.

I hope that as the reader of this book, whether a Floridian or an honorary Floridian, you are inspired to enjoy some of the adventures and understand why so many people continually return to enjoy all that Florida has to offer.

-Marc P. Vallin

A commercial produced for Intro to VisComm Spring 09

http://myjms.nnbnews.com/file/cessna/Cessna.flv

The Cessna commercial was a final project for Introduction to the Visual Communication course produced by Leigh Armstrong, Stephen Cook, Jennifer Israel, Cesar Lugaro, Brad Richardson and Mauriah Tocco in Spring 2009.