Month: March 2016

Winners Ryan Nelson — Radio In-depth Reporting for Busy Taxidermists Taylor Trache — Radio Sports Reporting for Jockeys—misunderstood athletes Molly Robinson — Best All-Around Television Newscast for WUFT NEWS First at Five Paige Andringa — Television News and Feature Photography for Ziplining Finalists The Fine Print Magazine staff at the University of Florida — for […]

Kim Walsh-Childers, professor in the Department of Journalism, and Tim Sorel, professor in the Department of Telecommunication at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, have won Faculty Summer Awards. Walsh-Childers has been awarded a Faculty Research Summer Award. She will spend the summer conducting research for a grant through the Department of […]

Julie Leibach, UF’s fourth Science Journalist in Residence, is the managing editor of online content for Public Radio International’s  Science Friday, a website and weekly radio show hosted by Ira Flatow. Prior to her work at Science Friday, she worked as a senior editor and web manager at Audubon magazine. Leibach’s visit will be April […]

The Conversation on March 24, 2016 published, “Why do people risk their lives – or the lives of others – for the perfect selfie?,” an article by Advertising Professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs and Enrollment Management Michael Weigold.

Lu Zheng, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the College of Journalism and Communications Department of Advertising has been accepted in the Advertising Educational Foundation’s (AEF) 2016 Visiting Professor Program (VPP). The VPP is a two-week fellowship for professors of advertising, marketing, communications and the liberal arts.  Zheng will join 16 professors selected to participate in this […]

The Tampa Bay Times quotes Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert in the March 23, 2016 story, “Memo to Donald Trump: Hulk Hogan sex tape trial has nothing to do with libel law,” regarding Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent comments on the Hulk Hogan trial victory over Gawker Media.

The Conversation on March 18, 2016 published, “Does the First Amendment protect people who film the police?,” an article by Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert about his study of U.S. courts and their perspectives on whether or not citizens have a First Amendment right to film police on duty. The topic is […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication News and  Production students won five grand prizes at the NBS Convention’s 53rd Annual Student Electronic Media Competition held March 16, 2016, in Burbank, California. Winners included: Video News Package:  Allison Valdez — “Humane Society” Live Newscast:  Jacob Schrull — WUFT News First at Five, October 14, 2015 Video Program […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Executive Associate Dean Spiro Kiousis will be presenting In the Eye of Democracy: Mediated Public Diplomacy and the International Agenda Building Influence of the 2014 Hong Kong Protest at The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Public Relations Week conference being held March 11 – 18. UFCJC Ph.D. […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications students Kelbin Ramirez, B.S. Telecommunication 2015, and Tanai Milgram, B.S. Telecommunication 2015, have been nominated for a Television Academy Foundation student Emmy Award. “OutintheVille” was recognized in the 37th Annual College Television Awards “Series-Unscripted” category. “OutintheVille” features a student-run reality food series that provides the inside scoop on the […]

Journalism Master Lecturer Mike Foley‘s appearance as an expert witness in the Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker trial is featured in this March 9, 2016 story from the Associated Press, “Journalism professor testifies in Hulk Hogan lawsuit.”

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications today awarded its $10,000 grand prize in public interest communication to Dr. Troy Campbell, assistant professor of marketing, Lindquist College of Business, University of Oregon and Aaron Kay, professor at The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.  The research prize, which celebrates peer reviewed research that […]