Month: March 2014

The Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project filed a friend-of-the-court brief last week with the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of United States v. Elonis. “The case deals with the true threats doctrine in First Amendment jurisprudence. True threats is a contentious and muddled area of law, and we want the high court to […]

More than 30,500 people from 70 countries have signed up so far for the Massive Open Online Course Journalism Professor David Carlson has been working on. “Music’s Big Bang: The Genesis of Rock ‘n’ Roll” will debut March 13, 2014 on Coursera.org. Carlson’s class builds on the foundation Bill McKeen created more than a decade […]

More than 80 University of Florida faculty, staff and students, and members of the Allen H. Neuharth family gathered March 10, 2014 to dedicate the “Allen H. Neuharth Reading Room” at UF Library West in memory of the former Chairman and CEO of the Gannett Company and founder of USA Today, who died on April […]

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications has hired Randy Bennett as the College’s new Director of Entrepreneurship and Partnerships, Dean Diane McFarlin announced today. He will join the College on March 10. Bennett was with Newspaper Association of America for 22 years, where his roles included Vice President of Digital Media and […]

Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert  is quoted in the March 2, 2014 story in the Orlando Sentinel, “Teacher’s buyback mission is to wean kids off violent games, films,” regarding a teacher who buys back violent video games from her students.