Month: January 2017

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications alumnus Miles Doran, B.S. Telecommunication 2010, has is the winner of the College’s Outstanding Young Alumni Award for 2016-17. 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 […]

University of Florida STEM Translational Communication Center Director Janice Krieger and a team of researchers have been awarded a $3.04 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to test the efficacy of using virtual technology to increase colorectal cancer screening among rural and minority patients. This is one of the largest grants […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication Assistant Professor Yu-Hao Lee was quoted in “A Petition Didn’t Make Trump Give Up His Tax Returns – But It Made Him Listen” published in Wired on Jan. 26. Online petitions can be an effective way to raise awareness about an issue, and a cost-free way […]

Dr. Brigitta Brunner-Johnson has been selected as the inaugural editor of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journal of Public Interest Communications (JPIC). JPIC is a new scholarly journal publishing the latest research in public interest communications. It will be housed in the College under the direction of Linda Hon, director of […]

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications will award one $10,000 prize and two $1,500 prizes to published academic research that informs the growing discipline of public interest communications. Three finalists will present their work at frank, an annual conference for people who work in public interest communications, and frank (scholar), a novel […]

Annie Neimand, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications communication manager and frank research director and digital strategist, and Lauren Griffin, frank director of external research, collaborated on “Why Each Side of the Partisan Divide Thinks the Other is Living in an Alternate Reality.” The article, focusing on information avoidance in the post-Trump inauguration era, […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications graduate student Jing ‘Taylor” Wen will receive $2,200 from the 2016-2017 American Academy of Advertising (AAA) Doctoral Dissertation Competition for her proposal, “Facing Anger Versus Fear: How Individuals Regulate Level of Control in Risk Communication.” Wen’s proposal includes a panel of 400 participants for a study on […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising Department Chair and Professor Tom Kelleher is the author of Public Relations: Engagement, Conversation, Influence, Transparency, Trust, a new public relations textbook recently published by Oxford University Press. The book, which seamlessly integrates foundational public relations principles with “technical and cultural shifts brought about by the […]

Danielle Prinz, a University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication senior, has placed 11th overall in the 2017 Hearst Journalism Awards Program Television Features category. In addition, the College tied with the University of Kansas for ninth place overall based on points accumulated from student entries in the Intercollegiate Broadcast Competition. Students from […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication Associate Professor Michael Leslie will co-facilitate “The Fundamentals of Effective Leadership Seminar” in Nassau, Bahamas on Feb. 10, 2017. Leslie was invited to partner with Bahamian-born motivational speaker, corporate trainer, author and talk show host Spence Finlayson, founder, president and CEO of The Phoenix Institute for […]

John Wright, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication professor, director of Sports Media and Communication and current interim Public Relations chair, was cited in “10 Journalism Educators Who Made the Grade” in the January 2017 edition of Crain NewsPro. With the premise that great journalists are taught by great teachers, Crain NewsPro […]

Two University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications scholars were published in different issues of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly in 2016. In March 2016, Clay Calvert, UF CJC director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project, penned a book review on “Community Newspapers and the Japanese-American Incarceration Camps: Community, Not Controversy.” In […]

In 1985, Yvette Miley came to CJC to get her hands dirty. She had one goal: become immersed in broadcasting. On her third day on campus, she volunteered for WRUF-AM. There, Miley found her passion. So much so that she soon quit going to class, lost her scholarship and almost became homeless. Thanks to the […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication senior Kaitlin Alexander has been awarded the Founders Scholarship and an internship with CNN/Bleacher Report from the Association for Women in Sports Media (AWSM). She was one of eight students nationwide selected for a scholarship and internship. Alexander is the first student from the AWSM UF […]

An article by University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication Assistant Professor Jasmine McNealy was recently published in the Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property. The article, entitled “Reconsidering Privacy-Promising Technologies,” was co-authored with University of Oregon Assistant Professor Heather Shoenberger. The article examines the idea of the “reasonable person” in the […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication Assistant Professor Yu-Hao Lee has been awarded one of only four grants from the 2017 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Emerging Scholars Program. Lee’s proposal, ““Feeling Right about the News: A Motivated Information Processing Examination of the Effects of News Headline Framing on […]

Ashley Lombardo, B.S. Journalism 2016, recently received eleventh place in the Feature Writing Category in the 57th annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards Program. Lombardo wrote a powerful story about sex trafficking in Gainesville for Journalism Professor and Department Chair Ted Spiker’s Advanced Magazine Writing class last spring. The three-part series: “Hidden in Plain […]

Yulia Strekalova is CJC’s Director of Grants Development and a recent CJC Ph.D. graduate. And now she can add assistant research professor to her resume. Strekalova was drawn to academia because of her curiosity of how people make sense of health information. Her interest in how people understand health information started with a conversation that is still […]

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications today announced that journalism stalwart and veteran educator Mira Lowe has been named the new director of the Innovation News Center (INC), the College’s award-winning multimedia newsroom. Lowe, a senior editor at CNN Digital in Atlanta, will lead a team of seven news professionals and more than 500 […]

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications today announced that distinguished journalism professional and educator Herbert Lowe will join the College as a lecturer in journalism and director of its Summer Media Institute. Lowe is the professional in residence in the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Marquette University in Milwaukee, his alma mater, and […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising Associate Professor Janice Krieger, director of the Stem Translational Communication Center (STCC), was guest editor for a special issue of the Journal of Language and Social Psychology. The special issue highlights “the ways in which science communication, and in particular translational communication, implicates the nuances of […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Public Relations Assistant Professor Rita Linjuan Men has authored a new book Excellence in Internal Communication Management. The book integrates theories, research insights, practices, as well as current issues and cases into a comprehensive guide for internal communication managers and organizational leaders on how to communicate effectively […]