Month: July 2020

Roxane Coche, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Sports Journalism and Communication associate director and Telecommunication assistant professor, is the co-author of “’The Man South Africa Forgot:’ Media Construction and Redemption of Postapartheid Hero Josia Thugwane” published in the Journal of Sports Media, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2020. Coche and co-author Travis […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications faculty members who were part of a COVID-19 healthy behaviors research team were included in the opinion piece “Looking Out for One Another – Our Shared Responsibility” by UF Vice President for Student Affairs D’Andra Mull. It was published in The Independent Florida Alligator on July 27. […]

Yu-Hao Lee, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication associate professor, is the co-author of “The More the Merrier? The Effects of System-Aggregated Group Size Information on User’s Efficacy and Intention to Participate in Collective Actions” published in Internet Research on July 21. In the article, Lee and Carlin Littles focus on social […]

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States. It’s also the leading cause of death for women globally. But educational information that doesn’t take into account cultural differences among women may not be as effective as communication embracing those differences. University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Associate Professor […]

Frank LoMonte, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Brechner Center for Freedom of Information director, comments in “The Government’s PR Barrier: When Access to Experts is Limited or Banned” published on the National Press Club Journalism Institute’s website on July 27. The article focuses on the directive by U.S. federal agencies and departments […]

Frank Waddell, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism assistant professor, is the co-author of “The Impact of Ad Customization and Content Transportation on the Effectiveness of Online Video Advertising” published in the Journal of Current Issues & Research in Advertising published on July 12. Waddell and co-author Yan Huang examined how ad […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications  alumna Alexa Padron, B.S. Advertising 2020, and Advertising senior Nicole Lopez are the recipients of a 2020 D&AD New Blood Award for their entry “Speak Your Truth” in The LEGO Group Category. The LEGO Group charged students with creating powerful campaigns that appeal to teenagers and rebuild […]

Cynthia Morton, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising associate professor, is the co-investigator for $959,000 grant from the National Institute on Aging – National Institutes for Health (NIA-NIH) to explore how minority family members can potentially influence each other to be involved with healthy aging clinical research studies. Morton will work with […]

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) Chapter has received a national PRSSA 2020 Star Chapter Award. The award honors chapter leadership for providing programming and relationship-building opportunities for students. The UF PRSSA Chapter, which was one of the nine original PRSSA chapters created in 1968, […]

  Jasmine McNealy, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications associate director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project and Telecommunication associate professor, served as one of four co-editors for Communication Studies, Volume 71, Issue 3: Communicating Artificial Intelligence (AI); Theory Research and Practice published on July 14. McNealy, Seungahn Nah, Jang Hyun […]

Benjamin Johnson, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising assistant professor, was selected as one of three special issue editors for “This is (Not) Fine,” an upcoming special issue of Psychology of Popular Media. The special issue will curate research on the collision of current crises and popular entertainment. Johnson, Elizabeth Cohen, Omotayo […]

The White House Internship Program selection process is highly competitive. Applicants are encouraged to submit a thorough application that illustrates their qualifications, character, and commitment to public service. Selection as a White House intern is based on the following criteria: A commitment to public service Demonstrated leadership in the community A commitment to the mission […]

Clay Calvert, director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, appeared on CNN’s “Smerconish” on July 18. Calvert spoke to host Michael Smerconish about colleges and universities that are rescinding incoming student admissions due to racist social media posts. He comments on how the […]

Organizational culture is a social glue that holds organizational members together and prescribes how things are understood, judged, and valued in an organization. The affective dimension of organizational culture, known as emotional culture, sets the tone for how organizational members feel. What can leaders do to promote the positive emotional culture of the workplace? How can […]

Media innovator Rebecca Harris has joined the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information as the Center’s first Civic Tech Fellow, working to identify solutions to make local-government data more accessible and useful to journalists and the general public. Harris is the founder and former CEO of Purple, a messaging CMS and distribution platform enabling publishers […]

Miranda Spivack, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Brechner Center for Freedom of Information Journalism fellow and veteran Washington Post journalist, will be one of two instructors for the National Press Club Journalism Institute’s “Keeping Public Records Public: Strategies for Getting Access During the Pandemic” session on Aug. 5. The session will address […]

Churchill Roberts, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication professor and Allyson Beutke DeVito, B.S. Telecommunication 1998 and  M.A.M.C. 2000, were quoted in “’A Skeleton in Florida’s Closet:’ The Johns Committee History at UF” published in The Independent Florida Alligator on July 12. The article focuses on the interrogation of UF students and […]

How the business world operates – whether technology firms to banks to media giants – today has a greater impact on the lives of everyday Americans than at almost any point in postwar history. From Facebook’s problems balancing privacy and profit to whether the nation’s biggest banks have fairly delivered government relief packages, objectively reporting […]

Moni Basu, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Michael and Linda Connelly Lecturer for Narrative Nonfiction, is the author of “Veterans Hook Fish & Friends on the Open Water” published in Flamingo magazine on July 14. Basu writes about Freedom Fighter Outdoors, an organization based north of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida founded by boat […]

Instagram continues to be one of the fastest growing social networks and currently has more than one billion users. While Instagram has not been a focus of investigations into misinformation, it has not been immune to bad actors. And the nature of the Instagram platform, for example the inability to link to credible sources, makes […]

The Wakeman Agency announced the launch of The Narrative Justice Project (NJP), a tactical response to the continual misrepresentation and under-representation of people of color in the media. Through this community organizing initiative, people of color around the country will have access to free media training to learn how to leverage the media in times […]

Kim Walsh-Childers, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communication Journalism professor, and Janice Krieger, director, STEM Translational Communication Center, are co-authors of “Development of a Minority Prostate Cancer Research Digest: Communication Strategy Statement for Black Men” published in the Journal of Cancer Education, July 2020. In the study, Walsh-Childers, Krieger and colleagues Folakemi Odedina, […]

Heading home with groceries recently in Gainesville, Florida, I darted my car onto a street in front of an oncoming SUV. A second later, there was a sheriff’s deputy behind me. No reason to believe he even noticed me, but yet my back stiffened in fright. With black men up to 3.5 times more likely than whites […]

Samantha Page, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications STEM Translational Communication Center post-doctoral associate, Jordan Alpert, Advertising assistant professor, and Carma Bylund, Public Relations associate professor and associate professor in the Division of Hematology & Oncology at the UF College of Medicine, are the co-authors of “Fatalistic Cancer Beliefs Across Generations and Geographic […]