Month: January 2011

The Independent Florida Alligator and The Gainesville Sun cover the College’s plan to add a 12,000-square-foot addition to the second floor of Weimer Hall: Alligator: Weimer Hall to get $4.4 million newsroom addition Sun: Addition to UF’s College of Journalism faces deadlines

Marion B. Brechner, a dear friend of the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications, passed away on Jan. 6, 2011. Mrs. Brechner was a well-known Central Florida broadcasting executive and philanthropist who also was strongly committed to defending Florida’s freedom of information laws. She and her husband, the late Joseph L. Brechner, chose […]

Three College of Journalism and Communications students, Maria Alvarez, Maria Cerruto and Dayana Falcon, have been selected for the American Advertising Federation’s Most Promising Minority Students program, associate dean Mike Weigold announced. The AAF selects students from all across the U.S. to travel, all expenses paid, to New York for a three-day chance to meet […]