Centers & Institutes
Brechner Center for Freedom of Information
The Brechner Center answers queries about media law from journalists,
attorneys, and other members of the public. The Center is prepared to
explain issues relating to media law, react to current developments, offer
speakers for meetings and classes, and assist in research about media
law.
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Marion Brechner Citizen Access Project
The goal of the Marion Brechner Citizen Access Project is to allow citizens
and public officials to better understand public access to local government
information in all 50 states. The project uses legal research to examine
the individual statutory provisions controlling open meetings and open
records in the 50 states, regardless of where the provisions are found
in a state's statutory compilations.
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The Documentary Institute
The purpose of the Documentary Institute is to create a worldwide center
of excellence for the production of television documentary, to provide
state-of-the-art instruction in the production of documentary, and to
serve as a clearinghouse for issues dealing with the production and teaching
of documentary film.
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Institute for Public Relations
The Institute for Public Relations™ is an independent nonprofit organization founded in 1956 and dedicated to the science beneath the art of public relations™. We exist to expand and document research-based knowledge in public relations, and to make this knowledge available and useful to practitioners, educators, researchers, and the clients they serve.
Everything we publish is available free via our Web site, www.instituteforpr.org. Our programming falls into three major categories:
- The goal of our research program is to continuously expand the frontiers of the professional body of knowledge in public relations through a defined mix of original work, research that we encourage or catalyze, and work that we discover and publish.
- The goal of our education programs is to mainstream the body of knowledge, providing opportunities and resources to help current professionals get better grounded in the science beneath the art of public relations.
- The goal of our education-industry affairs program is to enhance relationships between the academy and the profession, supporting undergraduate and graduate education, and helping to ensure a robust supply of well-qualified new professionals.
Interactive Media Lab
The University of Florida Interactive Media Lab was the first facility of its kind at any college or university. Its origins date to 1982, long before other institutions of higher learning began establishing programs in "new media." The current facility opened in the summer of 1994 with eight 486-class computers and a mission to explore the future of online news delivery.
The lab is a bustling center of activity with 15
state-of-the-art computer workstations, its own video- and audio-editing
equipment and high-definition television monitors with Dolby Digital surround
sound. Students monitor news from around the world on continuously updated
computer screens and produce a weekly Web-based news magazine called Newszine.
They also create Web sites for non-profit clients, produce interactive
projects on DVD and CD-ROM and explore the future.
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Knight Division for Scholarships, Career Services & Multicultural Affairs
The Knight Division for Scholarships,
Career Services & Multicultural Affairs is a privately funded office
located in 1080 Weimer Hall in the College of Journalism and Communications
at the University of Florida. We are committed to providing all students
with assistance that will make their academic, professional and social experiences
in the College of Journalism and Communications as productive as possible.
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Allen H. Neuharth Library
The Allen H. Neuharth Library is located on the first floor
of Weimer Hall, and is a branch library in the Humanities and
Social Science Services Department of the University of Florida George
A. Smathers Libraries system. The library's primary mission is
to serve the instructional and research needs of the students,
faculty and staff in the College of Journalism and Communications. The
library provides reference materials, a circulating collection of books,
scholarly journals, newsletters, professional/trade journals, newspapers,
and popular magazines. Computer workstations are available to access
to the extensive databases and other resources supplied by the George A.
Smathers Libraries and the Internet. Reference and research assistance
is also available.
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The Campaign for the University of Florida