Month: November 2014

The friend-of-the-court brief filed by the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project with the U.S. Supreme Court in the true threats case of Elonis v. United States is cited in the Nov. 24, 2014 story in the Washington Post, “Supreme Court case tests the limits of free speech on Facebook and other social media.”

Columbia Journalism Review Delacorte Fellow David Uberti quotes Journalism associate professor Norm Lewis in a column published Nov. 18, 2014 titled “Journalism has a plagiarism problem. But it’s not what you think” for CJR‘s “Behind the News” blog. Lewis was quoted towards the end of the column about his studies on the subject. Poynter’s Benjamin Mullin […]

Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert is quoted in this article in the Nov. 21, 2014 edition of the Wall Street Journal, “Blankenship Pleads Not Guilty in West Virginia Mine Blast Case,” regarding the gag order imposed in the criminal case against former Massey CEO Don Blankenship.

Lucy Morgan will speak at the Bob Graham Center in Pugh Hall on Thursday, Nov. 20 at 6 p.m. Morgan has been a reporter at the Tampa Bay Times since 1968, where she served as Capital Bureau chief in Tallahassee and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for investigative reporting. Mike Foley, master lecturer, College […]

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications has received preeminence funds from the University’s Office of Research to build a lab focused on examining responses to new and immersive media technologies, Dean Diane McFarlin announced today. The lab, yet to be formally named, will be housed in the 21st Century News Lab space […]

EducationShift on November 6, 2014 published “Storyful’s Mark Little on the Future of Journalism and Education,” an article by Journalism senior Erica Hernandez 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 this article in the November 2014 issue of the ABA Journal, “NY high court says anti-cyberbullying law won’t pass First Amendment muster,” regarding the New York Court of Appeals 5-2 decision in July to strike down Albany County’s cyberbullying law in the case People […]

Federal district court judge Matthew W. Brann cited favorably Brechner Eminent Scholar Clay Calvert’s article Defining “Public Concern” After Snyder v. Phelps: A Pliable Standard Mingles with News Media Complicity in Brann’s August 2014 ruling in the First Amendment retaliation case of Tayoun v. City of Pittston, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 111282 (M.D. Pa. Aug. […]

Join the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications on Wednesday, Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. in Gannett Auditorium in Weimer Hall for a conversation with Melissa Bell, co-founder of Vox Media. We’ll discuss how Vox is leading a new wave of high-value digital journalism, the science of how we consume the news, and […]