Month: April 2016

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Public Relations Department Chair Juan-Carlos Molleda will be leaving the College to become the dean at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication (SOJC). He will assume the role on July 1, 2016. Dr. Molleda will be the first strategic communication and international scholar to lead the […]

Journalism professor Wayne Wanta has been selected as the Media and Communication Visiting Fellow at the University of Canterbury. He will spend five weeks at the university located in Christchurch, New Zealand, beginning May 2. In his notification letter to Dr. Wanta, Dr. Babak Bahador, the chair of the review committee, noted that his University […]

Washington Post news media blogger Erik Wemple quotes Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert in the April 19, 2016 story, “The libel laws targeted by Donald Trump are helping him big-time,” regarding a a defamation suit filed by Republican consultant Cheri Jacobus against Donald Trump and his campaign manager.

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Assistant Professor of Advertising Lu Zheng discusses her research on narrative persuasion in an Academic Minute, broadcast on April 20, 2016. The audio and transcript of her broadcast are available here. The Academic Minute features researchers from colleges and universities around the world, keeping listeners abreast of what’s new and […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFJCJ) Public Relations Professor Mary Ann Ferguson and doctoral student Baobao Song, have been awarded an Arthur W. Page Center 2016-17 Joint Faculty-Practitioner Grant for $10,000. Ferguson and Song will serve as co-principle investigators on the grant which is titled, “Employee Prosocial Engagement in CSR through Empowerment […]

The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) has announced the winners of the 2016 regional Edward R. Murrow Awards. WUFT-FM received top honors in three categories of the Region 13 Small Market Radio Competition. “Gainesville’s Homeless Problem” received Best Documentary, “Not Disabled – Differently Abled!” was awarded for Best Series and WUFT-FM was selected for […]

The Conversation on April 14, 2016 published, “The murky ethics of Gay Talese’s ‘The Voyeur’s Motel’,” an article co-authored by Journalsm Professor Kim Walsh-Childers.

Washington Post news media blogger Erik Wemple quotes Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert in the April 14, 2016 story, “Whatever you do, Michelle Fields, do NOT sue Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski,” regarding a possible libel suit by journalist Michelle Fields against Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski.

Ph.D. students Gillian Wheat and Nicki Karimipour have been awarded 2015/2016 Graduate Student Teaching Awards. Gillian, a graduate student in Telecommunication, teaches telecommunication programming. Nicki, a graduate student in Journalism, teaches multi-media writing. Each year, the UF Graduate School recognizes the best, brightest and most industrious of the University of Florida’s graduate teaching assistants for […]

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University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications alumnus Andy Newman, B.S. Advertising 1977, has been shooting the Seven Mile Bridge Run in Marathon, Fla. for 32 years.  This year, two of his photos from the race were chosen by the Associated Press to include in their “APTOPIX” for April 9. Newman, who is senior […]

The University of Florida has granted center status to the College of Journalism and Communications’ STEM Translational Communication Research program. The new center will be called the STEM Translational Communication Center. The Center’s mission, as articulated in the proposal to the UF administration, is to “develop innovative strategies for bridging discovery in the basic sciences […]

Four University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications students have been accepted into the University Scholars Program for 2016-2017. The program introduces students to academic research by offering the opportunity to work one-on-one with UF faculty on selected research projects. Acceptance is very competitive and only 200 students from academic disciplines across campus are […]

I knew I wanted to be a journalist well before I came to UF, but most of my defining moments came during my time there from 1979 through 1982. By the time I came to UF, I had already interned at the Poynter Institute and thought I was a real hot-shot. That attitude ended when […]

The Miami Herald won the 30th Annual Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Award for its groundbreaking investigative series, “Innocents Lost.” Two Herald reporters, Carol Marbin Miller and Audra D.S. Burch, investigated Florida’s child welfare system by following the lives – and deaths – of children within the system. As part of the three-year-long investigation, […]