Month: December 2009

The Pinellas County Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently recognized University of Florida visiting professor Wayne Garcia for his lucid take on government action. The ACLU chapter gave the Irene Miller Vigilance in Journalism award to Wayne Garcia, who is teaching at UF’s College of Journalism and Communications. The chapter’s board members […]

The Florida FlyIns exhibition Brazil in Words, Pictures and Sound is reviewed in this Dec. 10 article in The Gainesville Sun. David Hackett writes, “[John] Kaplan and crew went about recording the lives of this society [Icapui, Brazil] and came back with some powerful images, stories, audio recordings and video footage.”

CNBC Media and Technology Editor Dennis Kneale, JM 1979, visits the College to speak with students and professors about his career in print and television journalism. He’s the former managing editor of Forbes magazine. (Photo by Steve Johnson)

Alligator: “Samantha Grosse was a curious, motivated student. “The UF telecommunications student worked in the WRUF newsroom for class. She liked international politics, loved animals and was in Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. “She didn’t like to use her disease as an excuse.” Read the story »

(Click image to enlarge.) By the time the sun rises at 5:30 in Icapuí, Brazil, many of the residents are fishing for lobster in increasingly depleted waters. Yet in this northeastern Brazilian community of 16,000, life goes on: Afro-descendants perform ancestral theater, elderly residents tell traditional ghost stories, Pentecostal women strive to fit their new […]