Month: March 2009
College to recognize five Alumni of Distinction
/The College will recognize five alumni this spring as Alumni of Distinction, Senior Associate Dean Linda Hon announced. Including these five, the College will have recognized only 108 of its more than 24,000 graduates in this manner. The alumni have been invited to participate in the College’s annual awards banquet on Wednesday, April 8 and […]
Read more »Sun: UF student’s burger ad makes national airwaves and YouTube
Current student David Cohen and the nationally-airing television commercial for Hardee’s that he produced for a contest are featured in the Gainesville Sun story, UF student’s burger ad makes national airwaves and YouTube.
Read more »Bernfeld, College featured in LA Times story
Journalism graduate Randi Bernfeld, JM 2007, is featured and the College is mentioned in the Los Angeles Times story, It’s Web 101 for this experienced intern.
Read more »Students are finalists at NBS competition
Miles Doran and Rikki Klaus (click to enlarge) Six UF students earned finalist positions at the National Broadcast Society’s annual competition. Miles Doran and Rikki Klaus are finalists in the Video News Segment category for their Florida FlyIns package, “Hope of Life.” Doran is also a finalist in the Video News Package category for “Tropical […]
Read more »Tim Hussin to join MediaStorm for Summer Internship
Awarding-winning (1, 2) recent photojournalism graduate Tim Hussin, JM 2008, will be joining Media Storm as their Summer 2009 intern.
Read more »Photojournalism in second after Hearst round two
The College is in second place after round two, news/sports, of the annual Hearst Foundation intercollegiate photojournalism competition, professor John Freeman announced. Laura Heald (view entry) finished in 11th place, and Andrew Stanfill (view entry) finished 24th out of 69 entrants. The third and final round, picture story/series, will take place this month.
Read more »A dialogue with Venezuelan journalist Teodoro Petkoff
[jwplayer file=”college/college/Petkoff-20090305.mov” html5_file=”http://fms01.jou.ufl.edu/college/college/Petkoff-20090305.mov”] Teodoro Petkoff, a Venezuelan journalist, author and politician, holds an informal conversation with faculty, staff, students and interested members of the community. One of the most prominent politicians in Venezuela, Petkoff has been a critic of President Hugo Chávez and has been outspoken in its criticism of both Chavismo and those who […]
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