Month: January 2017

In 1985, Yvette Miley came to CJC to get her hands dirty. She had one goal: become immersed in broadcasting. On her third day on campus, she volunteered for WRUF-AM. There, Miley found her passion. So much so that she soon quit going to class, lost her scholarship and almost became homeless. Thanks to the […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication senior Kaitlin Alexander has been awarded the Founders Scholarship and an internship with CNN/Bleacher Report from the Association for Women in Sports Media (AWSM). She was one of eight students nationwide selected for a scholarship and internship. Alexander is the first student from the AWSM UF […]

An article by University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication Assistant Professor Jasmine McNealy was recently published in the Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property. The article, entitled “Reconsidering Privacy-Promising Technologies,” was co-authored with University of Oregon Assistant Professor Heather Shoenberger. The article examines the idea of the “reasonable person” in the […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication Assistant Professor Yu-Hao Lee has been awarded one of only four grants from the 2017 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Emerging Scholars Program. Lee’s proposal, ““Feeling Right about the News: A Motivated Information Processing Examination of the Effects of News Headline Framing on […]

Ashley Lombardo, B.S. Journalism 2016, recently received eleventh place in the Feature Writing Category in the 57th annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards Program. Lombardo wrote a powerful story about sex trafficking in Gainesville for Journalism Professor and Department Chair Ted Spiker’s Advanced Magazine Writing class last spring. The three-part series: “Hidden in Plain […]

Yulia Strekalova is CJC’s Director of Grants Development and a recent CJC Ph.D. graduate. And now she can add assistant research professor to her resume. Strekalova was drawn to academia because of her curiosity of how people make sense of health information. Her interest in how people understand health information started with a conversation that is still […]

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications today announced that journalism stalwart and veteran educator Mira Lowe has been named the new director of the Innovation News Center (INC), the College’s award-winning multimedia newsroom. Lowe, a senior editor at CNN Digital in Atlanta, will lead a team of seven news professionals and more than 500 […]

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications today announced that distinguished journalism professional and educator Herbert Lowe will join the College as a lecturer in journalism and director of its Summer Media Institute. Lowe is the professional in residence in the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Marquette University in Milwaukee, his alma mater, and […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising Associate Professor Janice Krieger, director of the Stem Translational Communication Center (STCC), was guest editor for a special issue of the Journal of Language and Social Psychology. The special issue highlights “the ways in which science communication, and in particular translational communication, implicates the nuances of […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Public Relations Assistant Professor Rita Linjuan Men has authored a new book Excellence in Internal Communication Management. The book integrates theories, research insights, practices, as well as current issues and cases into a comprehensive guide for internal communication managers and organizational leaders on how to communicate effectively […]