Month: March 2017

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism Professor and Chair Ted Spiker served as a contributing writer for the new book Age Proof: Living Longer Without Running Out of Money or Breaking a Hip written by Jean Chatzky and Michael Roizen, MD. The book, published on Feb. 28, explores the vital link between […]

Bob Norberg, director of strategy and research at The Agency in the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, was quoted in the article “Rise of the Millennial CEO” published in the March 2017 print edition of Site Selection magazine. Norberg comments on Florida’s appeal to millennial entrepreneurs including no state income tax, an […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project Director Clay Calvert’s article, “Neil Gorsuch and the First Amendment: Questions the Senate Judiciary Committee Should Ask” was published in The Conversation on March 9. Calvert poses three key First Amendment questions for the Supreme Court nominee during the upcoming Senate Judiciary […]

Caitie Switalski, a University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism senior, has placed first in the 2017 Hearst Journalism Awards Radio Competition and will advance to the National Championship. Telecommunication junior Alexa Lorenzo was also honored, placing eighth. Switalski’s main piece was on a Steinhatchee woman who lost everything after Hurricane Hermine flooded […]

Amaury Sablon, a University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication junior, received an Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar Award at the Foundation’s 2017 OPC Scholar Awards Luncheon in New York City.  Sablon was among 15 aspiring foreign correspondents selected by a panel of leading journalists from a pool of 175 applicants from 50 […]