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Melinda  McAdams

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:

Web:
Home Page
Course Syllabi Online
My guest appearances and workshops off-campus
Flash Journalism
My blog: Teaching Online Journalism
Information and links relative to Malaysia
Knight Chairs in Journalism
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
         
2
8:30a - 9:20a
        Research
3
9:35a - 10:25a
        Research
4
10:40a - 11:30a
In Class     By Appointment Research
5
11:45a - 12:35p
In Class     Lunch Research
6
12:50p - 1:40p
Lunch     By Appointment Research
7
1:55p - 2:45p
In Class Office Hours In Class By Appointment Research
8
3:00p - 3:50p
Office Hours Office Hours In Class By Appointment Research
9
4:05p - 4:55p
Office Hours Lunch By Appointment By Appointment Research
10
5:10p - 6:00p
  In Class      
11
6:15p - 7:05p
  In Class      
E1
7:20p - 8:10p
         
E2
8:25p - 9:15p
         
E3
9:25p - 10:10p
         
Office hours last updated: July 30, 2009

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