Month: April 2011

During its annual student awards banquet held April 13, the College announced the following winners (Click images to enlarge): Advertising award winners Michael Cheng, W. Robert Glafcke Award Jamie Daigle, Respess Award Courtney McCalden, Outstanding Advertising Scholar Douglas Nelson, Richard W. McGinnis Professional Promise Award Stephanie Repins, Joseph R. Pisani Service Award Darrell L. Stevens, […]

The Florida Associated Press Broadcasters contest recently named 18 WUFT-FM and WUFT-TV pieces as award winners at the annual Florida AP Broadcasters banquet in Orlando. The winners, announced on April 16, are: College Television: Best College Newscast Second Place: the WUFT staff Best spot news First Place: Vic Micolucci, WUFT-TV, for the “Kofi Adu-Brempong shooting” […]

Lu Zheng (Click image to enlarge.) Congratulations to Lu Zheng, assistant professor of advertising at the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications. Her research paper, co-authored with Professor Joe Phelps of the University of Alabama, was named the 2011 Best Conference Paper at the American Academy of Advertising’s annual conference in Phoenix April […]

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications will hold a reception for graduating seniors and their families and friends, Saturday, April 30, 2011, immediately following Commencement. The reception will be in the Knight Courtyard in Weimer Hall and will feature punch, coffee, tea, fruit and cookies. All family members and close friends of […]

The UF College of Journalism and Communications congratulates UF’s Public Relations Student Society of America’s 2011 Bateman Case Study Competition team for its selection as one of three finalists in this year’s Bateman national competition. Public relations seniors Elizabeth Dow, Alex Glover, Ruth Michel, Seeta Rebbapragada, and Maura Reese will present their campaign in person […]

Tim Sorel (Click image to enlarge.) For Telecommunications Assistant Professor Tim Sorel, teaching is a lot like video production. “In both teaching and video production, I will never reach an end to what I am capable of,” said Sorel. “I continue to work on my strengths and work doubly hard on my weaknesses.” That drive […]

[jwplayer file=”college/Les-Payne-20110411a.mp4″ html5_file=”http://fms01.jou.ufl.edu/college/Les-Payne-20110411a.mp4″] Les Payne, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, editor and author, speaks about the 1976 Soweto uprising and relates the South African revolt to today’s protests in North Africa and the Middle East. He spoke on April 11 in the Pugh Hall auditorium at the University of Florida. Payne is touring the country speaking […]

Groundbreaking Initiative by UF’s College of Journalism & Communications to support bilingual journalism training for students University of Florida public radio station WUFT-FM 89.1 began broadcasting Spanish language programming on the 89.1 HD3 channel on Monday, April 11. WUFT Ahora features news, public affairs and variety programming, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. […]