Author: Craig Lee

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Deputy News Editor and Digital Director in the Division of Media Properties Gary Green published “The New Norm” in the May 2016 issue of Journalism Practice. Abstract This article examines how one Central Florida newspaper used emerging media technologies to communicate and engage better with a […]

On April 26, 2016, the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project, along with the ACLU Foundation of Florida and multiple medical societies, filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in the long-running case of Wollschlaeger v. Florida, First Amendment Project director Clay Calvert announced today. The case centers […]

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.

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 […]

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, […]

Winners Ryan Nelson — Radio In-depth Reporting for Busy Taxidermists Taylor Trache — Radio Sports Reporting for Jockeys—misunderstood athletes Molly Robinson — Best All-Around Television Newscast for WUFT NEWS First at Five Paige Andringa — Television News and Feature Photography for Ziplining Finalists The Fine Print Magazine staff at the University of Florida — for […]

Kim Walsh-Childers, professor in the Department of Journalism, and Tim Sorel, professor in the Department of Telecommunication at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, have won Faculty Summer Awards. Walsh-Childers has been awarded a Faculty Research Summer Award. She will spend the summer conducting research for a grant through the Department of […]

Julie Leibach, UF’s fourth Science Journalist in Residence, is the managing editor of online content for Public Radio International’s  Science Friday, a website and weekly radio show hosted by Ira Flatow. Prior to her work at Science Friday, she worked as a senior editor and web manager at Audubon magazine. Leibach’s visit will be April […]

The Conversation on March 24, 2016 published, “Why do people risk their lives – or the lives of others – for the perfect selfie?,” an article by Advertising Professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs and Enrollment Management Michael Weigold.

Lu Zheng, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the College of Journalism and Communications Department of Advertising has been accepted in the Advertising Educational Foundation’s (AEF) 2016 Visiting Professor Program (VPP). The VPP is a two-week fellowship for professors of advertising, marketing, communications and the liberal arts.  Zheng will join 16 professors selected to participate in this […]

The Tampa Bay Times quotes Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert in the March 23, 2016 story, “Memo to Donald Trump: Hulk Hogan sex tape trial has nothing to do with libel law,” regarding Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent comments on the Hulk Hogan trial victory over Gawker Media.

The Conversation on March 18, 2016 published, “Does the First Amendment protect people who film the police?,” an article by Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert about his study of U.S. courts and their perspectives on whether or not citizens have a First Amendment right to film police on duty. The topic is […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication News and  Production students won five grand prizes at the NBS Convention’s 53rd Annual Student Electronic Media Competition held March 16, 2016, in Burbank, California. Winners included: Video News Package:  Allison Valdez — “Humane Society” Live Newscast:  Jacob Schrull — WUFT News First at Five, October 14, 2015 Video Program […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications students Kelbin Ramirez, B.S. Telecommunication 2015, and Tanai Milgram, B.S. Telecommunication 2015, have been nominated for a Television Academy Foundation student Emmy Award. “OutintheVille” was recognized in the 37th Annual College Television Awards “Series-Unscripted” category. “OutintheVille” features a student-run reality food series that provides the inside scoop on the […]

Journalism Master Lecturer Mike Foley‘s appearance as an expert witness in the Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker trial is featured in this March 9, 2016 story from the Associated Press, “Journalism professor testifies in Hulk Hogan lawsuit.”

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications today awarded its $10,000 grand prize in public interest communication to Dr. Troy Campbell, assistant professor of marketing, Lindquist College of Business, University of Oregon and Aaron Kay, professor at The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.  The research prize, which celebrates peer reviewed research that […]