Month: January 2017

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications alumnus Miles Doran, B.S. Telecommunication 2010, has is the winner of the College’s Outstanding Young Alumni Award for 2016-17. The award was created by the UF Alumni Association in 2006 to recognize Gators under the age of 35 who are leaders in their profession and community. The […]

University of Florida STEM Translational Communication Center Director Janice Krieger and a team of researchers have been awarded a $3.04 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to test the efficacy of using virtual technology to increase colorectal cancer screening among rural and minority patients. This is one of the largest grants […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication Assistant Professor Yu-Hao Lee was quoted in “A Petition Didn’t Make Trump Give Up His Tax Returns – But It Made Him Listen” published in Wired on Jan. 26. Online petitions can be an effective way to raise awareness about an issue, and a cost-free way […]

Dr. Brigitta Brunner-Johnson has been selected as the inaugural editor of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journal of Public Interest Communications (JPIC). JPIC is a new scholarly journal publishing the latest research in public interest communications. It will be housed in the College under the direction of Linda Hon, director of […]

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications will award one $10,000 prize and two $1,500 prizes to published academic research that informs the growing discipline of public interest communications. Three finalists will present their work at frank, an annual conference for people who work in public interest communications, and frank (scholar), a novel […]

Annie Neimand, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications communication manager and frank research director and digital strategist, and Lauren Griffin, frank director of external research, collaborated on “Why Each Side of the Partisan Divide Thinks the Other is Living in an Alternate Reality.” The article, focusing on information avoidance in the post-Trump inauguration era, […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications graduate student Jing ‘Taylor” Wen will receive $2,200 from the 2016-2017 American Academy of Advertising (AAA) Doctoral Dissertation Competition for her proposal, “Facing Anger Versus Fear: How Individuals Regulate Level of Control in Risk Communication.” Wen’s proposal includes a panel of 400 participants for a study on […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising Department Chair and Professor Tom Kelleher is the author of Public Relations: Engagement, Conversation, Influence, Transparency, Trust, a new public relations textbook recently published by Oxford University Press. The book, which seamlessly integrates foundational public relations principles with “technical and cultural shifts brought about by the […]

Danielle Prinz, a University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication senior, has placed 11th overall in the 2017 Hearst Journalism Awards Program Television Features category. In addition, the College tied with the University of Kansas for ninth place overall based on points accumulated from student entries in the Intercollegiate Broadcast Competition. Students from […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication Associate Professor Michael Leslie will co-facilitate “The Fundamentals of Effective Leadership Seminar” in Nassau, Bahamas on Feb. 10, 2017. Leslie was invited to partner with Bahamian-born motivational speaker, corporate trainer, author and talk show host Spence Finlayson, founder, president and CEO of The Phoenix Institute for […]

John Wright, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication professor, director of Sports Media and Communication and current interim Public Relations chair, was cited in “10 Journalism Educators Who Made the Grade” in the January 2017 edition of Crain NewsPro. With the premise that great journalists are taught by great teachers, Crain NewsPro […]

Two University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications scholars were published in different issues of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly in 2016. In March 2016, Clay Calvert, UF CJC director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project, penned a book review on “Community Newspapers and the Japanese-American Incarceration Camps: Community, Not Controversy.” In […]