Month: April 2007

ESPN’s Erin Andrews with Dean John Wright (click image to enlarge) Get to know the right people – and try to be at the right place at the right time. That’s the advice ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, TEL 2000, recently gave students when she visited the UF College of Journalism and Communications. (Watch the Webcast […]

The national Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation recently awarded “College Emmys” to a student and two alumni. Ansley Dreadin won first place in the College Television Awards’ Magazine Show category for her role as producer of Spotlight on Cancer. Isaac Brown and Eric Flagg, 2006 Documentary Institute graduates, won second place in the […]

http://fms02.jou.ufl.edu/college/ErinAndrews070413.mp4   Erin Andrews, TEL 2000, Sideline Reporter for ESPN and the College’s 2007 UF Outstanding Young Alumni honoree, speaks to students on April 13 about what it takes to have a successful career in sports broadcast journalism. Running time: 1:09:46. http://www.jou.ufl.edu/assets/newsaudio/ErinAndrews070413.mp3

[jwplayer file=”college/college/BillFrakes070410.mov” html5_file=”http://fms01.jou.ufl.edu/college/college/BillFrakes070410.mov”] Sports Illustrated photographer Bill Frakes spoke to the College’s chapter of the National Press Photographers Association. He showed and discussed with students photographs from his work at SI and the Miami Herald. Frakes has worked in more than 75 countries for numerous advertising and editorial clients. His photography has garnered dozens of […]

Three telecommunication students won grand prizes in the National Student Electronic Media Competition at the National Broadcasting Society convention in Chicago, chapter adviser Julian Williams announced. The winners are: Video News Package – Jason Dunning, “Tropical Storm Alberto” Video Magazine Program – Ansley Dreadin, “Spotlight On Cancer” Video News Segment – Natalie Caula, “Danny Rolling […]

Norman Lewis, Deanna Pelfrey, Rasha Kamhawi and Tim Sorel will join the faculty of the College beginning in August, 2007. Norman Lewis joins the Department of Journalism. He is currently copy editor at The Washington Post and doctoral student at the University of Maryland. Deanna Pelfrey joins the Department of Public Relations. She served as […]

Laforis Knowles has joined the College as the new development officer, Interim Dean John Wright announced. Knowles has served as a development officer for the College of Education for the past two years. She is an alumna of the College, having earned her Bachelor’s degree in Public Relations.

Karen DeYoung, JM 1971, spoke April 5 in the Reitz Union. DeYoung’s speech, entitled “Does the Bush Administration Care About Diplomacy”, was sponsored by the UF International Center, in collaboration with the College of Journalism and Communications, ACCENT, and the Student Government. Karen DeYoung is an associate editor at The Washington Post and the paper’s […]

The College’s photojournalism program finished second in the annual Hearst Foundation Intercollegiate Photojournalism Competition. In the third and final round, Picture Story, Morgan Petroski placed second with a project about mothers raising their children in prison in Ecuador and Celia Tobin placed eighth with a story about a homeless pregnant woman in Gainesville. Petroski nets […]