Month: April 2013

During its annual student awards banquet held April 17 at the UF Hilton, the College announced the following winners: College-wide awards Ruth and Rae O. Weimer Award Steven Gallo, Telecommunication  Cup for Professional Promise Tyler Jett, Journalism Christy Jones, Telecommunication Alex Masi, Public Relations Miriam Rattes, Advertising Dean’s Cup for Scholarship Natalie Asorey, Public Relations […]

Congratulations to Casey Kochey, MAMC – Journalism, who has received a 2012-13 Graduate Student Teaching Award from the University of Florida.   Casey, a native of St. Petersburg, will graduate this semester with his master’s degree. Each academic year, the UF Graduate School recognizes the best, brightest and most industrious of the University’s graduate teaching assistants for their […]

Washington Post news media blogger Erik Wemple quotes Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert in the April 9, 2013 post, “How did Mother Jones obtain McConnell tape?.”

The Associated Press has been named the winner of the 27th Annual Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Award for its ground-breaking investigative series, “Access Denied,” which tested the right-to-information laws in the more than 100 counties that have them. “This series highlighted the importance of access to government information in a democracy and the […]

  On Tuesday, March 26, UF PRSSA and the PR Advisory Council presented “Connected Minds Ignite Ideas” featuring Jonathan Jones in Gannett Auditorium. Jones is the Sr. Manager for Emerging Channels at NRG Energy.  In that role, he is responsible for identifying and developing new media, marketing & technology channels such as social media and […]