Month: April 2012

Congratulations to Steven Gallo, 4TEL, and Henry Taksier, 4JOU, for winning national 2011 Mark of Excellence Awards sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists. These awards recognize collegiate work published or broadcast during 2011. This year student journalists from around the country submitted more than 4,000 entries. Henry won in the “Feature Photography, Four-Year College/University” […]

Congratulations to the UF Bateman team for being named a national finalist in this year’s competition sponsored by the Public Relations Student Society of America. The finals will be held in Minneapolis in May. Finalists include UF; Loyola University, New Orleans; and the University of Maryland, College Park. Congratulations to the team members Caroline Lewis, […]

Congratulations to the students and staff of WUFT-TV and WUFT-FM for their outstanding showing in the Florida Associated Press Awards this year. Students and staff attended the banquet in Orlando Saturday. Winners and finalists include: TELEVISION SMALL MARKET Continuing Coverage: WUFT TV, Occupy Gainesville, Darby Underwood and Trent Kelly (finalist) Hard News Feature: WUFT TV, […]

Radio station Country 103.7 The Gator rolled out a new line-up Monday that included a new morning show duo and a new call-in request evening show featuring the station’s popular “Big Stew.” “Big D and Bubba,” a syndicated show heard in markets across the nation, will be heard weekdays from 6 – 10 a.m. The […]

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Master lecturer Mike Foley is featured in the April 4 Gainesville Sun story, “3 at UF placed among ‘Best 300 Professors’”. Foley is profiled in The Princeton Review’s Best 300 Professors, released April 3.

Foley Mike Foley, master lecturer of journalism in the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications, has been named one of the country’s best undergraduate teachers according to The Princeton Review. The Massachusetts-based education services company – widely known for its test-prep courses, books, and student survey-based college rankings – profiles three UF professors […]

Coffey As strange as it might sound, for Amy Jo Coffey, the College’s 2011-12 Teacher of the Year, her happiest times as a teacher are when she realizes her students no longer need her. “There’s a point when I read a final project, when I hear a presentation or I see one of my students […]

[jwplayer file=”college/PR-Panel-2012-0330.mp4″ html5_file=”http://fms01.jou.ufl.edu/college/PR-Panel-2012-0330.mp4″] Public Relations Advisory Council spring meeting Future Trends panel. This spring’s event explored the future of mobile communication technology in a panel discussion that included live questions and comments from the audience of students, faculty and advisory council members. Moderator: John Deveney, Deveney Communications Panelists: Jay Magee, Community Hospice of Northeast Florida […]