This is the first edition of my student produced radio news magazine titled Miami Edition.

This is the result of my custom designed Special Topics course I taught as a 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 ready with a reel for a career in radio journalism. The class also included reporters, producers, and anchors as guest lecturers who are directly working in the professional industry. 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 included 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 to broadcast the 30 minute show on the University of Miami radio station: WVUM 90.5 FM. It's intention was so the campus radio station could provide a diverse lineup of student produced news weekly each semester.