Month: April 2010

John Kaplan (Click image to enlarge.) Professor John Kaplan’s (Journalism) health science education film project has won a Best of Competition award from the Broadcast Educators Association. He received the honor for his documentary short film, Pulitzer Pride, earlier this month at the Festival of Media Arts in Las Vegas, as part of the BEA […]

Five Pulitzer Prize winners and several best-selling authors will share the secrets of their trade at the Storytellers’ Summit May 14-16 at the University of Florida. The workshop, sponsored by the College of Journalism and Communications, is aimed at helping all sorts of storytellers, from novices to veterans, from writers to photographers. Speakers will include: […]

The Florida Associated Press Broadcasters contest recently named 27 WRUF, WUFT-FM and WUFT-TV pieces as award winners at the annual Florida AP Broadcasters Banquet in Orlando. The winners, announced on April 17, are: Small Market (Professional) Television: Best Breaking Sports First Place: WUFT, “SEC Championship Fraud” by Kristen Keely Best Hard News Feature Second Place: […]

During its annual student awards banquet held April 7, the College announced the following winners: College-wide awards Teacher of the Year: Norman P. Lewis Dean’s Cup for Professional Promise: Hilary Lehman, Christina A. Burnham, Kathryn Watson, Kim Wilmath Dean’s Cup for Scholarship: Deborah Swerdlow, Katherine Villacis, Kaitlyn Weller Dean’s Cup for Service: Andrea Babineau, April […]

[jwplayer file=”college/Ethics-panel-2010-04-10.mp4″ html5_file=”http://fms01.jou.ufl.edu/college/Ethics-panel-2010-04-10.mp4″] Recent UF graduates working in various forms of media tell stories of ethical dilemmas they’ve faced in their first few years out of college working in the journalism field and how the type of media and organization they work for affects the decisions they make. Panelists: Katie Farmand: Food and feature magazine […]

Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert appears on the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends.” Gretchen Carlson interviews him about legal and First Amendment issues

[jwplayer file=”college/Hartman-2010-03-29.mp4″ html5_file=”http://fms01.jou.ufl.edu/college/Hartman-2010-03-29.mp4″] CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman speaks to students and holds a question-and-answer session in the College’s 21st Century News Laboratory on March 29, 2010. Running time: 1:33:44.

In the April 2, 2010 story, “UF won’t punish sororities over election revelations on secret recording,” The Gainesville Sun quoted Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert as saying the “recording appears to be legal.”