Month: October 2009

Dean John Wright (second from right) joins UF College of Veterinary Medicine Dean Glen Hoffsis (second from left) and Chris Fey, chairman and CEO of US Preventive Medicine (center), his son, Jason (far right), and company shareholder M. Asim (far left) in the UF President’s Box for the Homecoming football game Saturday.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post editor and alumni of distinction David Finkel’s book, The Good Soldiers, is reviewed in The New York Times articles “Their Corner of the War” and “Ground War: The Iraq Surge Grunts Knew.” Related Excerpt: “The Good Soldiers” on washingtonpost.com. Profile of Finkel in the Fall 2007 communigator.

The Ocala Star-Banner on October 11 published “Permission not to speak: Show me the note,” an op-ed piece by Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert “regarding the U.S Supreme Court’s decision last week to leave intact a Florida law requiring students who do not want to say the Pledge of Allegiance to first […]

Ben Stearns, a second-year journalism master’s student, is volunteering at WUFT-FM. (Photo by Steve Johnson) (Click image to enlarge.) Many University of Florida advertising, journalism and public relations students knew the College of Journalism and Communications’ broadcast stations are there but had no idea how to become involved. To some, the stations seemed exclusive or […]

[jwplayer file=”college/college/PR-Marx-Burness-091001.mov” html5_file=”http://fms01.jou.ufl.edu/college/college/PR-Marx-Burness-091001.mov”] Andy Burness, founder of Burness Communications, and Joe Marx, senior communications officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, talk with students from the Dept. of Public Relations on Oct. 1, 2009 about the late Frank Karel, JM 1961, and share stories from their experience in the field of public interest communication. Running […]