Month: June 2014

HuffPost Politics published two columns by Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert  on June 25, 2014, “First Amendment Ignorance: Survey Reveals Land of the Free and Uninformed” and “Slipperiness Behind Aereo Ruling: Solving Riddles of Legislative Intent and Separation of Powers”

The College’s Innovation News Center and center director and journalism professor Matt Sheehan are featured in this June 18, 2014 NetNewsCheck article, “Florida’s News Center Preps for Multimedia.”

An expert on health and interpersonal communication will join the University of Florida to direct the development of the STEM Translational Communication Program at the College of Journalism and Communications, Dean Diane McFarlin announced today. Janice L. Krieger is being hired as part of UF Rising, the university’s push to become a top 10 public […]

Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert  is quoted in the June 16, 2014 story in Tech World News, “SC to Mull Free Speech vs. ‘True Threats’ on Social Media,” regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear the true threats case of Elonis v. United States involving alleged threats conveyed on Facebook in […]

HuffPost: Crime on June 9, 2014 published “Slender Man Meets the First Amendment: Why Suing the Character’s Creator Won’t Work” a column by Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert.

The College’s Innovation News Center is featured in this June 6, 2014 MediaShift interview with center director and journalism professor Matt Sheehan, “A Rising Model for Newsrooms at the Innovation News Center at Florida.”

Earlier today, we lost one of our own. Susan Spencer-Wendel, MAMC 1991, died at age 47 in her Palm Beach home of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, a progressive neurodegenerative disease. Spencer-Wendel was a reporter for The Palm Beach Post for nearly 20 years, and her coverage of the Florida courts earned her […]

HuffPost: Media on May 30, 2014 published “Connecting the Digital Dots From Elliot Rodger to Alyssa Funke: Slacktivism, Reductionism and the Predictable Blame Game of Tragic Death” a column by Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert.