Month: August 2010

In “Journalism panel discussion turns on presidential access,” The Denver Post quotes Sandra Chance, executive director of the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information: “President Bush was probably the low point of access to information. President Obama promised a change and made a commitment to that. We’re still hopeful that that promise will be kept. […]

In “Does Casey Anthony’s right to a fair trial trump public’s right to know?,” the Orlando Sentinel quotes Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert on “First Amendment versus Sixth Amendment”: “That tension has existed for a long time.”

A recent analysis of the quality of communication doctoral programs in the United States ranked the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications at number 6 among NRC programs. Florida’s position placed it just behind programs at Stanford, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Illinois—Champaign, and ahead of prominent programs […]

Update Watch the Archived Webcast The Florida Commission on the Status of Women is hosting a Gender Bias in the Media Roundtable discussion on August 31, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. at the Ocora Room at Pugh Hall, Bob Graham Center for Public Service, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Representatives from women’s groups, academia, and […]