RADIO JOURNALISM &
UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTION
This is the first edition of my student produced radio news magazine titled Miami Edition.
This is a sample of results from my custom designed Special Topics course I taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami titled Radio Journalism to undergraduate and graduate students open to journalism and multimedia majors. Its founding design is to simulate a real-world newsroom in the style of NPR and BBC radio where students perform all roles of a functioning network news organization to produce a weekly 30 minute news magazine in the style of NPR’s All Things Considered and the BBC’s World Service. The program put students front and center to script, edit, voice, and broadcast where any level of experience in journalism or broadcast production would leverage them at the end of the course to be amply prepared with a reel for a prospective career in radio journalism. The class also included reporters, producers, and anchors as guest lecturers who are directly working in the professional sector. That deepened the students' connection between their learning and work in the classroom, and how well that would translate to transitioning into the professional industry.
Technical instruction includes Pro Tools as well as Adobe Audition, demonstrating software proficiency as well as independently developing their beat stories, recording and editing, and delivering finished stories to be collectively edited together. It's intention was to broadcast the 30 minute show on the University of Miami radio station: WVUM 90.5 FM so the campus radio station could provide a diverse lineup of student produced news weekly each semester.
Software fluency
Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Photoshop CC; Certified by Adobe, 2019
Adobe Lightroom, InDesign, XD, and Audition (CC and legacy versions)
Final Cut Pro X, Motion, and Compressor from Apple Inc.
Final Cut Studio 3 suite: (Including FCP 7, Motion 4, Color, Soundtrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro and Compressor 3.5) from Apple Inc.
Aperture from Apple Inc.
iBooks Author from Apple Inc.
Final Draft 10
Movie Magic Budgeting
Movie Magic Scheduling
Avid Media Composer
Avid iNews
Pro Tools HD/Ultimate (2021.10) -- AVID CERTIFIED USER: PRO TOOLS, 2021 --
Pro Tools plugins and processing fluency in: Izotope and VR audio editing using 360 Pan from AudioEase.
Stem execution and 5.1-7.1 surround sound and Dolby Atmos 7.1.2/4 encoding.
Logic Pro from Apple Inc. and Spatial Audio encoding
Fluent in film colorization and calibration with Technicolor Color Assist, DaVinci Resolve, RED Cine X, and RAW photography.
Dalet Galaxy (for radio stations), Dalet One Cut, and Dalet radio automation
PRSS (Public Radio Satellite System) and ContentDepot
NPR's WebDACS
Fluent in advanced troubleshooting MacOS Big Sur, iOS 14 prototyping and deployment with Swift, Windows 10, and Android OS; including Microsoft Office and Apple’s preinstalled applications like iWork suite.