Month: September 2014

Minnesota Public Radio’s coverage of the cover-up of sexual abuse by the clergy in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s reporting on delays in hospital screening of newborns won the inaugural “University of Florida Award for Investigative Data Journalism” at the Online News Association’s 2014 Online Journalism Awards banquet, […]

The Innovators Series visit of Mark Little, founder and CEO of Storyful, is the subject of this Sept. 24, 2014 Elite Daily story by student Katie Campbell, “How Storyful CEO Mark Little Sees The Future Of Journalism As Influenced By Social Innovation.”

Amy Jo Coffey, Associate Professor of Telecommunication at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, was one of 15 professors selected nationally to participate in the Advertising Educational Foundation’s Visiting Professor Program this summer. She spent the last two weeks of July as the guest of two media agencies within the Starcom MediaVest […]

PBS MediaShift on September 23, 2014 published “Mark Little: ‘This is the Golden Age of Storytelling’,” an article by Journalism Associate Professor and Interim Chair Ted Spiker about the recent Innovators Series visit to the college by Mark Little, CEO and founder of Storyful.

Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert is quoted in the Sept. 17, 2014 article in Slate, “Schooling the Supreme Court on Rap Music,” 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 the form of rap lyrics.

Journalism Associate Professor Norman Lewis is quoted in the Sept. 16, 2014 article on Poynter.org, “Is it original? An editor’s guide to identifying plagiarism.”

HuffPost: Crime on September 16, 2014 published “Religious Crimes and Free Speech: From Pussy Riot to Fellatio with Jesus Statuary, the Controversies Keep on Coming” a column by Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert.

The Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project is mentioned and Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert is quoted in the Sept. 15, 2014 article, “Justices Get Schooled in Rap,” in The National Law Journal, the nation’s leading daily newspaper for attorneys.

Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert  is quoted in the Sept. 9, 2014 story in billboard, “Exclusive: Man Jailed for Posting Lyrics to Facebook Says ‘It’s Pretty Worrisome’,” regarding the arrest of a Kentucky man after he posted lyrics from a metal song to his Facebook wall.

Journalism Associate Professor and Interim Chair Ted Spiker is quoted in the Sept. 10, 2014 story on ABC News, “Ray Rice Could Return To the NFL After One Year, Expert Believes,” regarding the possibility of Ray Rice returning to play in the National Football League at some point in the future.

HuffPost: Crime on September 8, 2014 published “Metal Music, First Amendment Under Attack: Man Jailed for Posting Exodus Lyrics” a column by Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert.

Bernell Tripp, an Associate Professor of Journalism in the UF College of Journalism and Communications, has been selected to receive the 2014 American Journalism Historians Association National Award for Excellence in Teaching. The annual award honors a college or university teacher who excels at teaching in the areas of journalism and mass communication history, makes […]

Adjunct journalism professor Terry Anderson  is quoted in the September 4, 2014 story in The Independent Florida Alligator, “UF professor shares personal experience with terror abroad,” regarding the recent slayings of two American journalists in the middle east.

Citing the necessity of a free press to report on international injustices and terrorist activities, faculty members of the University of Florida Department of Journalism praised the valor of two recently slain American journalists while condemning their beheadings by terrorists. Terry Anderson, adjunct faculty member and a former Associated Press reporter who was held hostage […]