Month: November 2015

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Director of Grant Development and Ph.D. Student Yulia Strekalova’s article on Finding Motivation: Online Information Seeking Following Newborn Screening for Cystic Fibrosis has been published online in Qualitative Health Research. Abstract Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disease that has no manifestations for carriers but is terminal […]

You don’t rise to senior levels at one of the largest insurance companies in the world without a few defining moments. For Juan Andrade (JOU, POL ‘86), those defining moments came at three different stages of his life. The first was his grounding and education at the University of Florida and the College of Journalism […]

The recently-launched The Student Body Magazine is featured in this November 24, 2015 article in Street Fight, “Classroom as Incubator: University of Florida Produces National Health Site for Young Adults“

The UF Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) received national recognition at the organization’s 2015 conference in Atlanta, including Star Chapter Recognition. The College’s Bateman Case Study Competition team received their second place prize at the conference as well. Individual honors were bestowed on UF Chapter President Josh Ferrari. Ferrari received […]

Social Media master’s program director Andrew Selepak was interviewed on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” on November 20, 2015. The interview is summarized in the story, “The push and pull of social media in a crisis,” on the CNBC website.

This story was edited from a press release by the University Station Alliance. The University Station Alliance presented its 2015 USA Madison Hodges Innovator Award for Public Media Advancement to Randy Wright, executive director of CJC’s Division of Media Properties, at its Super Regional Meeting in San Antonio, Texas on November 19, 2015. Wright led […]

Healthy pizza. College depression. Beauty tips from Miss Florida. These are a few of the topics covered in Student Body Magazine, a new online publication by college-age adults for their peers.  The new site, launching today, is a one-stop shop for information on how young adults can enhance their quality of life. Developed by a […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Public Relations Department Chair Juan-Carlos Molleda, doctoral student Gabriel Stephen and Sarab Kochhar, director of research for the Institute for Public Relations, published an article titled An Intertwined Future: Exploring the Relationship between the Levels of Professionalization and Social Roles of Public Relations Professionals for the Institute […]

Recently-published research by Yulia Strekalova, director of grants development and Ph.D. student, suggesting that social media postings through established public health sources engage a sizable portion of the general public is featured in this Healio: Infectious Disease News article published on November 10, 2015, “Social media activity engages general public in ID topics.”

Lee Wetherington, a Sarasota homebuilder and philanthropist, has made a bequest of $1 million to the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications for the advancement of watchdog journalism. The gift will be in the form of a grant from the Lee Wetherington Foundation, administered by the Community Foundation of Sarasota County. It will […]

WUFT Classic debuted Nov. 10 at 1 p.m. on 102.7 FM, 89.1-2 HD2, online at wuft.org and via a new WUFT Classic App. Beethoven, Mozart, Miles Davis and other classical and jazz icons return to the FM airwaves in Gainesville and Alachua county as the UF College of Journalism and Communications launches a new classical, […]

The Conversation on November 10, 2015 published, “Businesses can actually sue you for posting negative reviews – and now Congress is fighting back,” an article by Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert. Calvert’s article was republished by Fortune magazine, “Why Consumers Should Think Twice About Writing Negative Reviews Online,” and Newsweek, “The Sneaky […]

Telecommunication Associate Professor Amy Jo Coffey is the new chair of the Media Management, Economics, & Entrepreneurship division of AEJMC. Coffey began her term Oct. 1, and will continue in the role until October 2016. She was previously elected to the Vice-Chair position, producing and coordinating the division’s programming and events for the 2015 AEJMC […]

Jennifer Boardman (PR ‘93) loved news and, upon graduation, headed to Atlanta to work for CNN. After a few years, she struggled with what she really wanted to do in her career – news or marketing. At that time, news marketing was pretty traditional – running on-air promos to build awareness for CNN’s programming. Jennifer’s […]

Pam Fine is perhaps the perfect leader for the American Society of News Editors (ASNE). In addition to more than 30 years as a reporter and newsroom executive, she has spent the last seven in journalism education as Knight Chair for News, Leadership and Community and professor of Journalism at the University of Kansas. Oh, […]

Assistant Professor of Telecommunication Jasmine McNealy has been elected vice chair of the International Communication Association Communication Law and Policy Division. The Division is interested in research and analysis of law, regulation and policy that deals with information, communication and culture. It includes within its purview: principles that should or do underlie law and regulation, […]