Faculty Members
Melinda McAdams
Professor - Department of Journalism
Knight Chair, journalism technologies and the democratic process
M.A.,
New School for Social Research (New York), 1993
B.A.,
Penn State University, 1981
Office: 3049 Weimer
Phone: (352) 392-8456
E-mail:
Research area
New communication technologies -- online journalism, multimedia journalism -- digital reporting, newsgathering, editing and production -- interactivity, Internet -- the changes in societies that are related to the adoption and diffusion of new communication technologies.
Biography
Mindy McAdams wrote the book Flash Journalism: How to Create Multimedia News Packages, which was published in 2005 by Focal Press/Elsevier. She teaches production and theory courses about interactive media and online journalism. She conducts online and multimedia journalism training for news organizations. In 2004-05 she was a traditional Fulbright Scholar on a teaching/research grant in Malaysia for eight months.
She has led journalist training workshops in Argentina, Vietnam, and Bulgaria on missions for the U.S. State Department. She has also given presentations about online journalism in Thailand, Britain, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Canada.
A pioneer in online newspapers, she was No. 15 on the Online Journalism Review's list of 50 "Names to Know" in new media in 1998. She joined the UF faculty in 1999. Previously she was the Web strategist at the American Press Institute; an information design and online news consultant in North America and abroad; and the first content developer at Digital Ink, The Washington Post's first online newspaper. For 11 years she worked as a copy editor -- on The Washington Post's Metro desk, at Time magazine, at a technology business newspaper, and at Dell Publishing in New York.
She is also co-author of the book The Internet Handbook for Writers, Researchers and Journalists (1997, 2nd ed. 2000, 3rd ed. 2002), published by Guilford Press.
Fall 2009 Office Hours
| Class Period | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 1 7:25a - 8:15a |
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| 2 8:30a - 9:20a |
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| 3 9:35a - 10:25a |
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| 4 10:40a - 11:30a |
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| 5 11:45a - 12:35p |
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| 6 12:50p - 1:40p |
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| 7 1:55p - 2:45p |
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| 8 3:00p - 3:50p |
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| 9 4:05p - 4:55p |
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| 10 5:10p - 6:00p |
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| 11 6:15p - 7:05p |
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| E1 7:20p - 8:10p |
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| E2 8:25p - 9:15p |
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| E3 9:25p - 10:10p |
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Office hours last updated: July 30, 2009 |
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