Month: September 2021

A five-part series taking readers inside America’s most dangerous penal system earned The Marshall Project and Mississippi Today the 2021 Collier Prize for State Government Accountability. The $25,000 award, offered by the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC), is one of the largest journalism prizes in the nation. The 2020 series, “Mississippi […]

Award-winning journalist and CJC alumna Sharyl Attkisson, B.S. Telecommunication 1982 and Hall of Fame 1999, has donated funds to establish the Sharyl Attkisson Investigative and Original News Prize, intended to encourage fresh, innovative and open-minded approaches to independent reporting on important public policy issues at the university, city, county, state or national levels. A first-place […]

Application links for the internships can be found at WSJ.jobs. The deadline for the spring internship is Oct. 15 and the deadline for the summer internship is Nov. 1. Several Internship opportunities linked below U.S. Spring, Part-Time Reporting Digital Platform   U.S. Spring, Full-Time Health Reporting   U.S. Summer, Full-Time Reporting (multiple cities) Pensiero (applicants from […]

Public media stations WUFT-TV/FM, located in the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Division of Media Properties, have received a $20,000 grant from Florida Humanities to produce new programming on the Black experience. WUFT is one of four Florida public media stations that will receive an inaugural “Broadcasting Hope” grant for “Evoking the […]

Andrew Selepak, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Media Production, Management, and Technology lecturer and coordinator of the online master’s program with a specialization in social media, is quoted in “’Digital Detectives’ Now Investigating as the Petito Case Sweeps the Internet” published on baynews9.com on Sept. 22. The story focuses on how the […]

Three University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Brechner Center for Freedom of Information faculty and research associates will present at three sessions during the National Freedom of Information Coalition (NFOIC) 2021 FOI Summit to be held virtually from Sept. 28-30. The virtual FOI Summit will include panel sessions and two hands-on training seminars. Sessions […]

Tonyaa Weathersbee, B.S. Journalism 1981, M.A.M.C. 2016, and University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Hall of Fame 2020, was part of a USA TODAY Network newsroom team that received the Domestic Print and Grand Prize from the 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for “The Confederate Reckoning.”  She also recently received a 2021 […]

Clay Calvert, director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project and Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, is quoted in “Fact Check-Cursing About Biden is Not Illegal, as Satirical Posts Claim” published by Reuters.com on Sept. 21. The article offers examples of social media […]

Rachel Grant, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism assistant professor, is the author of the book review of “Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter” published in American Journalism on Sept. 16, 2021. Grant reviews a biography of William Monroe Trotter, a Black Freedom activist and editor of the […]

Eric Cooks, Ph.D. 2020, a post-doctoral associate in the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications STEM Translational Communication Center (STCC), is featured in “When Patients Engage with Similar Others, Health Outcomes Improve and Other Conversations about Health Disparities,” an episode of the podcast Revise & Resubmit hosted by Kim Bissell and available on […]

Janice Krieger, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications STEM Translational Communication Center director, and a team of researchers has been awarded a National Institute on Aging (NIA) grant to use the virtual health assistant ALEX (Agent Leveraging Empathy for eXams) to recruit older adult minorities for clinical trials. The grant project, totaling $2.1 […]

Ted Bridis, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Rob Hiaasen Lecturer in Investigative Reporting, has been selected for the Board of Directors of the Florida Society of News Editors (FSNE). Bridis is one of the faculty members who oversees “Fresh Take Florida” which provides coverage of Florida state government to news outlets within […]

Summer 2022 applications opening this month! Hope you are all having a great fall semester back on campus! We are excited to share that the 4A’s Foundation Multicultural Advertising Intern Program (MAIP) applications are opening soon. Professors, Students, and College Staff are invited to our information sessions (MAIP Mondays) happening this fall! Starting Monday, September 27, 2021 […]

Annie Neimand, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Center for Public Interest Communications research director, is featured in “How to Build a Transformative Narrative” published in the Canadian magazine Raccords on Sept. 9. Neimand offers tips on how social-impact organizations can engage stakeholders to move them into action and attain objectives. They include […]

Frank LoMonte, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Brechner Center for Freedom of Information director, will be a member of the “Fighting ‘Censorship by PIO’” four-person virtual panel at the Access & Accountability 2021: Seize the Day Conference sponsored by the Yale Law School Information Society Project on Oct. 2. The panel focuses on how governments […]

Jasmine McNealy, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications associate director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project and associate professor, Media Production, Management, and Technology, will be a member of a Women in HPC (High Performance Computing) and AI virtual panel on Oct. 5 at noon.   WHPC is an international organization […]

Laini Kotchers, B.S. Public Relations 2001, is the author of the young adult survival thriller SKI WEEKEND: A  Novel. SparkPress will publish her debut book under her pen name “Rektok Ross” on Oct. 26. The book follows six teens stranded in the mountains who are forced to make impossible choices about who will live and […]

The UF Engineers Without Borders Peru team serves the agricultural community of Maras Ayllu, Peru, which currently experiences water quantity and quality issues. We spend the academic year communicating with the community and our other partners to design and implement engineering-based solutions. We are looking for students of ALL MAJORS AND BACKGROUNDS to apply to […]

Clay Calvert, director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project and Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, is quoted in “An OnlyFans Baseball Parody Has an Olney Team Crying Foul – and Hiring Counsel” published in The Washington Post on Sept. 13. OnlyFans.com is […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Public Relations Assistant Professor Jay Hmielowski and CJC doctoral students Eve Heffron and Michael Munroe are the co-authors of “You’ve Lost That Trusting Feeling: Diminishing Trust in the News Media in Rural Versus Urban U.S. Communities” published in The Social Science Journal on Sept. 10. Hmielowski, a […]

Rich Shumate, Ph.D. 2018, is the author of the book Barry Goldwater, Distrust in Media, and Conservative Identity: The Perception of Liberal Bias in the News published on Sept. 7. In the book, based on his CJC doctoral dissertation, Shumate posits that conservatives’ need to foster and maintain social identity as conservatives led them to […]

Cynthia Morton, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising professor, has been selected to join the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Current Issues & Research in Advertising (JCIRA) as one of four Associate Editors. JCIRA is a journal with international reach and one of four scholarly journals associated with the American […]

Twice per year, the DC Gator Club opens its application process to award one (1) J. Richard Sewell Internship Scholarship of $1,500 for a University of Florida student with an internship based in the greater Washington, DC area (DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia). This scholarship is made possible by DC Gator Club general funds, and […]

Eligibility Requirements: Financial Need Financial Need is determined by the Estimated Family Contribution (EFC) number on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). An EFC above 07500 requires an extenuating circumstance. 3.0 GPA A minimum 3.0 unweighted state GPA or 675 GED score is required to be considered. Any applications submitted with a GPA […]