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Rachel Grant, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism assistant professor, will be a panelist at the 2024 American Political History Conference at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, from June 6-8. Grant’s panel, “Re-Collecting Collective Memory of the American Presidency: The Press, Institutional History, and Rebuilding Trust in Democracy,” will explore the…

Andrew Selepak, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Media Production, Management, and Technology instructional assistant professor, visited the University of Dubrovnik in Croatia from May 20-24 as part of an Erasmus+ mobility agreement that facilitates student and faculty exchange between the University of Dubrovnik and UFCJC. Benjamin…

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Media Production, Management, and Technology (MPMT) Associate Professor and Department Chair Roxane Coche was a visiting professor at the Université de Toulon BABEL lab in France for two weeks in May. The BABEL Lab is a multidisciplinary facility for the development…

Responding to the accelerating need for journalists and communicators with advanced multimedia skills, the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) launched a new online Master of Arts in Mass Communication concentration in Digital Journalism and Multimedia Storytelling. The new concentration is designed to provide working journalists or…

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Public Relations Department has been selected for the PRNEWS’ 2024 Education A-List. This is the fourth year in a row that UFCJC has been named to this prestigious list, which was launched in 2021. The list recognizes the top 20…

By Alexander Vafeas, Sports@CJC With the dust from the PGA Championship finally settled, it’s time to take a first look at golf’s third major of the year, the U.S. Open. Xander Schauffele earned his first career major victory at the PGA in Louisville. Could another first-time major winner emerge at…

The search committee for the Innovation News Center’s faculty position in television news production will meet virtually on Thursday, May 30, at 9:30 a.m. to review candidates’ applications. Zoom link: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/92742529277?pwd=U29xS1FZS2tXb3BSd3lRa3J1THFZQT09    

International First Opportunity NOTE: This is a limited submission and UF can only submit one application. No internal submissions have been received, so it is now open to the first application submitted. Sponsor: Department of State, U.S. EMBASSY Algiers PAS Annual Program Statement Funding Opportunity Title: Annual Program Statement Key…

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications alumna, Serra Sowers, B.S. Journalism 2024, will be one of 29 competitors representing 17 universities from across the U.S. who will compete in the 64th annual Hearst Journalism Awards Writing, Photojournalism, Audio, Television and Multimedia National Championships from June 1-7, 2024. Sowers,…

Seven University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) and four Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) School of Journalism & Graphic Communication student journalists were honored in the 2023-24 Hearst Journalism Awards Multimedia Digital News or Enterprise Team Competition. Their entry, “UFxFAMU1963,” received 11th place. The 11-member team…

By Lenore Devore, B.S. Journalism, 1984 What started as a way for Larry Lancit, B.S. Telecommunication 1970 and Hall of Fame 1992, and his wife, Cecily, to pay the bills in New York in the 1980s evolved into one of the most beloved children’s shows on PBS and is now…

Jane Bambauer, Brechner Eminent Scholar and director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, is quoted in “The ‘Quantum Internet’ (and Why Washington Should Care)” published in POLITICO on May 20. The article focuses on the “quantum internet,” a…