Month: March 2016

Winners Ryan Nelson — Radio In-depth Reporting for Busy Taxidermists Taylor Trache — Radio Sports Reporting for Jockeys—misunderstood athletes Molly Robinson — Best All-Around Television Newscast for WUFT NEWS First at Five Paige Andringa — Television News and Feature Photography for Ziplining Finalists The Fine Print Magazine staff at the University of Florida — for […]

Kim Walsh-Childers, professor in the Department of Journalism, and Tim Sorel, professor in the Department of Telecommunication at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, have won Faculty Summer Awards. Walsh-Childers has been awarded a Faculty Research Summer Award. She will spend the summer conducting research for a grant through the Department of […]

Julie Leibach, UF’s fourth Science Journalist in Residence, is the managing editor of online content for Public Radio International’s  Science Friday, a website and weekly radio show hosted by Ira Flatow. Prior to her work at Science Friday, she worked as a senior editor and web manager at Audubon magazine. Leibach’s visit will be April […]

The Conversation on March 24, 2016 published, “Why do people risk their lives – or the lives of others – for the perfect selfie?,” an article by Advertising Professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs and Enrollment Management Michael Weigold.

Lu Zheng, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the College of Journalism and Communications Department of Advertising has been accepted in the Advertising Educational Foundation’s (AEF) 2016 Visiting Professor Program (VPP). The VPP is a two-week fellowship for professors of advertising, marketing, communications and the liberal arts.  Zheng will join 16 professors selected to participate in this […]

The Tampa Bay Times quotes Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert in the March 23, 2016 story, “Memo to Donald Trump: Hulk Hogan sex tape trial has nothing to do with libel law,” regarding Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent comments on the Hulk Hogan trial victory over Gawker Media.

The Conversation on March 18, 2016 published, “Does the First Amendment protect people who film the police?,” an article by Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert about his study of U.S. courts and their perspectives on whether or not citizens have a First Amendment right to film police on duty. The topic is […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication News and  Production students won five grand prizes at the NBS Convention’s 53rd Annual Student Electronic Media Competition held March 16, 2016, in Burbank, California. Winners included: Video News Package:  Allison Valdez — “Humane Society” Live Newscast:  Jacob Schrull — WUFT News First at Five, October 14, 2015 Video Program […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Executive Associate Dean Spiro Kiousis will be presenting In the Eye of Democracy: Mediated Public Diplomacy and the International Agenda Building Influence of the 2014 Hong Kong Protest at The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Public Relations Week conference being held March 11 – 18. UFCJC Ph.D. […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications students Kelbin Ramirez, B.S. Telecommunication 2015, and Tanai Milgram, B.S. Telecommunication 2015, have been nominated for a Television Academy Foundation student Emmy Award. “OutintheVille” was recognized in the 37th Annual College Television Awards “Series-Unscripted” category. “OutintheVille” features a student-run reality food series that provides the inside scoop on the […]

Journalism Master Lecturer Mike Foley‘s appearance as an expert witness in the Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker trial is featured in this March 9, 2016 story from the Associated Press, “Journalism professor testifies in Hulk Hogan lawsuit.”

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications today awarded its $10,000 grand prize in public interest communication to Dr. Troy Campbell, assistant professor of marketing, Lindquist College of Business, University of Oregon and Aaron Kay, professor at The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.  The research prize, which celebrates peer reviewed research that […]

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March 17-20 Seattle, Wa. Huan Chen, assistant professor, Department of Advertising  Young Consumers’ Perceptions of Social Media Marketing: The Story of Instagram Abstract:  A qualitative research was conducted to explore young consumers’ interpretation of Instagram and marketing via Instagram. The themes that emerged regarding those young consumers’ understanding of the photo-sharing social medium are picture […]

March 12 New York University Ron Rodgers, professor, Department of Journalism The Social Awakening and the Soul of News Abstract: The paper argues that the impulse for the struggle defining the ethics of the newspaper press as it shifted from a partisan to a commercial model at the turn of the last century was the notion […]

The ABA Journal quotes Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert regarding the judicial split of authority regarding the constitutionality of anti-surcharge statutes, including Florida’s law, as they affect the First Amendment freedom of speech in this story in the March 2016 issue, “Federal appeals courts split over law on credit card surcharges.”

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Executive Associate Dean and Professor of Public Relations Spiro Kiousis published “Agenda-building linkages between public relations and state news media during the 2010 Florida Senate election” in the March issue of Public Relations Review. Co-authoring on the research were: Ji Young Kim, assistant professor, University of Hawaii […]

Wired quotes Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert in the March 3, 2016 story, “Hulk Hogan’s NSFW Gawker Lawsuit Is a Free-Speech Battle Royale,” regarding newsworthiness as the key issue in the lawsuit.

March 2-6 Miami Spiro Kiousis, executive associate dean and professor, Department of Public Relations and Tianduo (Tina) Zhang, PhD candidate Developing a Scale to Measure Country Image Co-authors:  Diana Ingenhoff, University of Fribourg (Switzerland); Candace White, University of Tennessee; Alexander Buhmann, University of Fribourg Abstract:  For international public relations and public diplomacy, the composition and effects of country […]

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications has named Lainey Johnson Garcia, PUR 2008, as a 2015-16 Outstanding Young Alumni. The award was created by the UF Alumni Association in 2006 to recognize Gators under the age of 35 who are leaders in their profession and community. The awards will be presented at […]

Summer internships are often remembered as grueling unpaid work. For Tom Kelleher, now chair of the CJC Advertising Department, he remembers his summer internships as defining moments in his life. As a pre-dental undergraduate student at the University of Florida, Kelleher would spend his weekends in St. Augustine, Fla., surfing the waves with his brother […]

March 3 – 5, 2016 Baton Rouge, La. Clay Calvert, professor, Department of Journalism Copyright in Inanimate Characters: The Disturbing Proliferation of Microworks and Its Negative Effects on Copyright and Free Expression​ Co-Author: Matthew Bunker, Reese Phifer Professor of Journalism, University of Alabama. Award: Top Faculty Paper, Law and Policy Division Abstract: Using the U.S. Court […]