Month: September 2008

The college has created a position to provide strategic direction and explore new media opportunities for its commercial radio stations, Rock 104 and AM850. Dean John Wright named Paul Gordon executive director of commercial media properties. “Our current veteran leadership team at the stations will be aided by the development and execution of strategic planning […]

Alpha PRoductions, a student agency of the Public Relations Student Society of America, and its work on The Gator Nation campaign is featured in a story in The Independent Florida Alligator.

The University of Florida Marion Brechner Citizen Access Project has named a College of Journalism and Communications media law doctoral student as its interim director. Mark R. Caramanica replaces the project’s founding director, Bill F. Chamberlin, who retired in June. “We’re very fortunate to have someone of Mark’s background and ability to provide leadership within […]

The appointments of Larry Dankner as General Manager of WUFT WUFT-TV/DT and WUFT/WJUF-FM and student Robert Bradfield as student bureau chief for the College’s ABC News bureau are featured under Higher Education in the Around the Region column of The Gainesville Sun.

The Department of Advertising’s participation in the Zimmerman Advertising Boot Camp program is featured in a story in The Independent Florida Alligator.

North-central Florida’s public broadcasting stations, WUFT-TV/DT and WUFT/WJUF-FM, named a new general manager: Larry Dankner, who’s served as their interim GM since January 2007. Dankner has deep roots at WUFT. For 14 years, he served as the local PBS and NPR stations’ director of finance and administration, setting endowments currently valued at $1,289,012 for television […]

The Documentary Institute’s next film, The Flight of Petr Ginz, is featured in a story in The Shpiel.