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Great Storytellers: Carl Hiaasen

Thursday October 13, 2022

On Oct. 4, 2022, award-winning journalist and columnist Carl Hiaasen shared insights with University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications students about the craft of storytelling and how is experiences in Florida and with the Miami Herald …

Great Storytellers: The Art of Building Brands with Brett Berish

Wednesday September 21, 2022

Sovereign Brands CEO and UF alumnus Brett Berish was interviewed by CJC Dean Hub Brown on Sept. 13, 2022 as part of the College’s Great Storytellers series. Berish shared his stories and strategies for creating one of the top liquor brands in the …

Great Storytellers: Jeff Klinkenberg

Friday November 9, 2018

Jeff Klinkenberg, B.S. Journalism 1971, is a devotee of Florida, a rare breed of native son who has embraced Florida’s beauty, faults, and immense changes. The reason? He searched harder for the stories of real Florida. In fact, for nearly four decades as a …

Great Storytellers: Warren Zanes

Thursday September 27, 2018

Warren Zanes, Ph.D., is a musician, teacher and writer whose subjects range from Jimmy Rodgers to Dusty Springfield to the history of Warner Bros. Records. He is the author of Tom Petty: The Biography, originally published in 2015. Zanes is interviewed by …

Great Storytellers: Claire Smith

Wednesday February 28, 2018

Claire Smith is a pioneering, female sports journalist who has been covering baseball for more than three decades, including seven years as a national baseball writer and columnist for The New York Times. She has covered baseball for ESPN since 2007. Smith …

Michael Connelly and James Patterson

Friday February 24, 2017

Best-selling authors Michael Connelly (B.S. Journalism 1980, Alumnus of Distinction 2003) and James Patterson spoke in the Reitz Union as part of GatorNights on February 24, 2017. The event was co-sponsored by the CJC Great Storytellers series. …

Alligator Features Michael Connelly Great Storytellers Talk

Tuesday September 22, 2015

The Great Storytellers series talk with best-selling author and Alumnus of Distinction Michael Connelly, JM 1980, is featured in the September 22, 2015 story in The Independent Florida Alligator, “UF journalism alumnus Michael Connelly shares insight on …

Great Storytellers: Michael Connelly

Monday September 21, 2015

Best-selling and critically acclaimed author Michael Connelly returns to his educational roots at the University of Florida to talk about the art and craft of storytelling. Connelly—a 1980 graduate of the College of Journalism and Communications—is a …