Television channel, news and entertainment source, and web producer Fusion is joining ranks with eyesontherise.org to put the final touches on our sea level rise app, which we plan to release in late March. Combined with data from the South Florida Water Management District and collaboration with Miami’s Hacks/Hackers, The LAB Miami, and the GIS[…]
“Sea Level Rise Impact: An FIU/SJMC Series” is a nine-part web series produced by students at Florida International University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication and funded by eyesontherise.org through a grant from the Online News Association.
The project, produced in collaboration with Miami’s local public television station WPBT2, examines how communities in Monroe, Miami-Dade and Broward counties are preparing and responding to the issue of sea level rise.
New episodes of “Sea Level Rise Impact” will appear each Wednesday through April 15 and will lead to a 30-minute documentary version of the series that will air in WPBT2’s primetime lineup later that month. […]
Journalism students at Florida International University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication have been covering issues related to sea level rise in South Florida for the past year as part of a project funded by the Online News Association. A web series of their work will appear on WPBT2’s web channel this month. (Photo by Tosha Aguirre)
By Pattrik Simmons
(Reposted from FIU SJMC’s The Wire)
Kate MacMillin’s Multimedia Production I and Writing for TV students were in for a treat last semester when, instead of following the typical curriculum for these classes, they were told they would be producing mini-documentaries about sea level rise issues affecting South Florida.
Originally, the students’ mini-documentaries, some of them 3- to 5-minutes long, were produced as part the class requirement. Instead, most of them will now be featured as part of a 30-minute documentary that will air in prime time in April on WPBT2 (Ch. 2), the local PBS affiliate. They will also be uploaded to the channel’s YouTube account as a special series, “Sea Level Rise Impact: An FIU/SJMC Series,” in mid-February.
More than 100 media innovators from the United States and Latin America attended Media Party Miami on Feb. 13 and 14 at Florida International University and The LAB Miami.
eyesontherise.org co-sponsored the event along with FIU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Latin American & Caribbean Center at FIU, Hacks/Hackers Miami and the International Center for Journalists.
