Month: March 2017

Two University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications student productions were nominated for Emmy Awards in the 38th Annual College Television Awards Competition sponsored by the Television Academy Foundation. The Sept. 2, 2016 edition of “WUFT News First at Five” was honored in the Newscast category and the “2016 UF Homecoming Parade Pre-Show” was […]

Ginger Blackstone, Ph.D. Mass Communication 2016, has been named the recipient of the 2017 Kenneth Harwood Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Broadcast Educators Association (BEA) for “The Worst of Times: The Prevalence and Power of Fear in Television News.” Established by Kenneth Harwood, Professor at the University of Houston and a former President of BEA, the […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism senior Drea Cornejo is the first place finalist in the Multimedia News category in the 2016 Hearst Journalism Awards. She will now advance to the national competition. Cornejo also placed sixth in the Picture Story category. Her Photo Story project, “From Homelessness to Motherhood,” began in […]

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications today announced that Frank LoMonte is the new director of the Joseph L. Brechner Center for Freedom of Information. The Brechner Center, located in the College, is a non-profit educational center addressing issues around freedom of information, libel, privacy, prior restraints, “Sunshine” laws, access to courts […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising Assistant Professor Eunice Kim received the Mary Alice Shaver Promising Professor Award from the American Academy of Advertising at the annual AAA conference in Boston. The award honors a junior faculty member who has demonstrated excellence and innovation in advertising teaching and research. The award is […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising faculty and students presented papers at the annual American Academy of Advertising conference in Boston. The presentations and panelists included: Assistant Professor Eunice Kim, Going native (or not): Antecedents of Consumer Avoidance of Native Advertising on Social Networking Sites​ with co-authors Yoo Jin Chung, Ph.D. CJC student and Hongmin […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs and Enrollment Management Michael Weigold was featured in “Four Facts About Internships for Online Bachelor’s Students” in U.S. News & World Report on March 23. Weigold shared that internships offer professional training that is not easy obtainable in the classroom. The article […]

Forrest Smith, B.S Broadcasting 1981, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications deputy morning news director of the Innovation News Center, will receive the inaugural Legacy Award chosen by the board of the Florida Associated Press Broadcasters (FAPB). Three news professionals were selected for the inaugural honor out of dozens of nominations. To be […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications students are among the finalists in the 2017 Florida Associated Press Broadcasters (FAPB) Awards Competition. In the College competition, Florida college and university students entered a record 55 news, weather and sports television and radio stories. In the College Television competition, WUFT-TV students placed in 12 of […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Dean Diane McFarlin’s opinion piece “Take ‘Journalism’ Out of Our School’s Name? No. Double Down on Journalism in a Chaotic World” was published in MediaShift on March 15. In the piece McFarlin writes “as if the economic challenges of the last decade weren’t enough, focuses on the […]

Two University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications students were recognized in the 2016 Hearst Journalism Awards Competition Multimedia News category. Journalism senior Drea Cornejo received 13th place for “Lightnin’ Salvage Lives On” chronicling a fire in a business behind a popular Gainesville pizza place. Telecommunication freshman Grace King received 14th place for “On the […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Librarian April Hines is co-author of a recently published book, Collaborating with Strangers: Facilitating Workshops in Libraries, Classes, and Nonprofits. The resource leads readers through a unique framework that breaks down barriers to collaboration while also kindling long-lasting enthusiasm and inspiring organizations to extend that connection to include […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism Professor and Chair Ted Spiker served as a contributing writer for the new book Age Proof: Living Longer Without Running Out of Money or Breaking a Hip written by Jean Chatzky and Michael Roizen, MD. The book, published on Feb. 28, explores the vital link between […]

Bob Norberg, director of strategy and research at The Agency in the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, was quoted in the article “Rise of the Millennial CEO” published in the March 2017 print edition of Site Selection magazine. Norberg comments on Florida’s appeal to millennial entrepreneurs including no state income tax, an […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project Director Clay Calvert’s article, “Neil Gorsuch and the First Amendment: Questions the Senate Judiciary Committee Should Ask” was published in The Conversation on March 9. Calvert poses three key First Amendment questions for the Supreme Court nominee during the upcoming Senate Judiciary […]

Caitie Switalski, a University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism senior, has placed first in the 2017 Hearst Journalism Awards Radio Competition and will advance to the National Championship. Telecommunication junior Alexa Lorenzo was also honored, placing eighth. Switalski’s main piece was on a Steinhatchee woman who lost everything after Hurricane Hermine flooded […]

Amaury Sablon, a University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication junior, received an Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar Award at the Foundation’s 2017 OPC Scholar Awards Luncheon in New York City.  Sablon was among 15 aspiring foreign correspondents selected by a panel of leading journalists from a pool of 175 applicants from 50 […]