The Knight Center for International Media at the School of Communication, University of Miami, was established in February 2007 to address the assumption that the world will not solve its most difficult problems unless its people learn to communicate more easily across national borders.

The mission of the Center is to integrate scholastic and creative energies to serve and transform the global journalism and communication profession. The Center serves as an incubator for cross-disciplinary collaborations that allow communication professionals and journalists to interact with researchers, media makers, technologists, artists and scholars to develop new media models and methods for empowering the future leaders of the communication field.

The Center will focus on the expanding realm of multimedia visual journalism and cross cultural communication in the Americas and beyond. Through established endowed Knight Chairs, a program of professional residencies, and other projects, the Center will build an international network of collaborations to address underrepresented issues of global significance.


Our topics of interest derive from the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, and our activities focus on international anchor projects that are carefully designed to engage a variety of collaborative research and multimedia efforts on a single theme.

Currently the Center is engaged in a global multimedia project about water (onewater.org). In addition, the Center incubates future projects on an ongoing basis. Center topics of interest are reviewed annually.


The Knight Center for International Media at the School of Communication, University of Miami, has created a program of Resident Professionals, where journalists, documentary filmmakers, non-fiction writers and photographers have the opportunity to spend up to one year at our facilities completing projects and interacting with faculty and students.

The Knight Center Resident Professional Program is designed to bring together diverse international perspectives on journalism and communication.

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL BY OCT. 15, 2009 TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE NEXT RESIDENT PROFESSIONAL.

How to apply [PDF] / Our past and current Resident Professionals

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The Knight Center for International Media is committed to the power of collaboration. We believe that the future of journalism is in the development of models of collaboration that enrich the content and form of compelling stories.

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