2025. A schedule of the MDC journalism series – Student Gazette

A series of speakers of journalism in Miami Deid College is back.

This year’s edition, the 17th installation in the series, which was launched in 2008, will participate in journalists from Miami Herald, Univision, Wsvn 7 and WLRNS

Segments that last for 30 minutes and are posted on YouTube channel of MDC-TVIt will be filmed in February, March, April and May.

“We are glad to hear from this year’s guests,” said Manolo Barco, founder of the series and media advisor to ReporterThe Student Gazette in MDC. “To share them with their knowledge and experiences is a gift.”

Starting this year’s series is Joshua CelosA local government reporter in the accountability of WLRNS He will speak on February 11 at 11 am on the Wolfson campus, 300 Ne Second Avenue, Room 8503.

Before joining WLRN, Ceballos was a staff writer for Miami New TimesFocusing on public corruption and how it affects the lives of real people.

Ceballos, a graduate of Westland Hialeah Senior High School, begins his career in journalism in PanthernowStudent newspaper and website at the International University of Florida. He was the director of the organization’s news and investigative editor.

Today in Florida Anchor for news, Tavares Joneswill visit the MDC journalism speaker series On March 13 in North Campus, 11380 NW 27H Avenue, Room 4209 at 13:00

The journalist, nominated for WSVN 7, has worked on television markets in Florida, Georgia, Ohio and Arkansas. Tavares, a graduate of the University of Florida, has Double bachelor’s degree in radiating journalism and political science.

Miami Herald investigator Brittany Walman He will be the third spokesman in the series on April 15 in North Campus, room 2131 at noon.

Before HeraldWalman works at South Florida Sun Sentinel in Braurd County for 25 years. First as a local self -government reporter and then as a member of the newspaper investigations team performing the functions of an editor.

In 2019, Walman, a graduate of the UF, shared in Sun SentinelPulitzer’s Public Service Award for their shooting at the school in Parkland.

The final guest of the Speaker series will be Andres Grandomultimedia journalist of Univision new EnglandS No specific date has been chosen for the segment, but he will speak on the Hialeah campus; His interview will be held in Spanish, the first for the Speaker series.

Jrando serves as a photographer for Reporter Last year, winning Two awards for first place for the best news and a picture story by the Association of Systemic Publications in Florida College in November.

“To be in [The Reporter] gave me many ways to see things differently and [allowed] I would grow my career to what I wanted to continue to achieve professionally, “Grando said.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Grarado, which has a bachelor’s degree in audiovisual communication from the University of Medellin in Colombia, launched PeoplePage on Instagram, which publishes weekly news segments of about 45 minutes throughout the outbreak. He manages a team of about 13 ambitious journalists, including correspondents in Colombia, France, Mexico, the United States and Venezuela.

The MDC journalism series started in February 2008 to provide students with the opportunity to meet and contact working journalists. To date, more than 82 journalists have participated in the series.

For more information, contact Manolo Barco on (305) 237-1255 or on [email protected]S

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