Month: April 2019

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications student journalists were recently recognized at the 2019 Florida Associated Press Broadcasters Conference in Orlando. The annual Florida AP Broadcasters Competition is divided into professional and college categories. In the professional competition, students’ entries are judged alongside professional broadcasters. In the 2019 competition, 37 radio and television […]

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications honored outstanding alumni, faculty, staff and graduate and undergraduate students during its annual awards banquet on April 12, 2019. A copy of the Awards Banquet, with explanations of the named awards, is available here. The College inducted four alumni into its Hall of Fame: Scott Hagedorn, […]

Clay Calvert, director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, was quoted in “What’s a Threat? Arrest of Ocala Rapper Test Limits on Speech” published in The Gainesville Sun on April 11. The article focuses on an Ocala rap artist who was arrested for […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication alumni and students were recently honored in the 2019 Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts – News and Student Film and Video Competitions. In the Student Television News competition, Noticias WUFT, the student Spanish-language news program, received top honors in the Television News Magazine […]

Most podcast users are millennial males, listen weekly, and engage with podcasts at home, according to a major new study by the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) and Futuri Media, a leading audience engagement and sales intelligence technology firm. Results were presented at the National Association of Broadcasters’ NAB Show on […]

Marcia DiStaso, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Public Relations Department chair, will be one of four inductees into the PRNEWS PR Measurement Hall of Fame in Washington, D.C. on April 18. For the past nine years, PRNEWS has honored academics and professionals for their efforts in advancing and championing PR measurement, for […]

Janice Krieger, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications STEM Translational Communication Center (STCC) director, and Samantha Paige, STCC postdoctoral research fellow, are the authors of “Recruitment in Online Research for COPD: Leveraging Social Media and Research Registries” published in ERJ Open Research 2019. In article, Paige, who is the lead author, and Krieger […]

Pro Master’s Students Tucker Berardi, Haojing Qian, Stacey Sapp, Erin Schoch and Charles White created “Voluntour No More” to explore the effects of voluntourism on participants and communities. They discovered that, in many cases, voluntourism efforts can have little positive effect and, in some cases, can do harm. www.voluntournomore.com

Sylvia Chan-Olmsted, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication professor and Media Consumer Research director, is the co-author of “Factors Affecting Smartphone Dependency of Media Consumers” published in the Journal of Mobile Communications on April 1. Chan-Olmsted, along with doctoral student Min Xiao, examined the phenomenon of smartphone dependency in the context of […]

Rita Linjuan Men, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Public Relations associate professor, is the co-author of “Creating a Positive Emotional Culture: Effect of Internal Communication and Impact on Employee Supportive Behaviors” published in Public Relations Review on April 1. The article, co-authored by CJC doctoral student Cen April Yue, focuses on the […]

Linda Hon, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Public Relations professor, has received a grant from the Arthur W. Page Center to study the “Antecedents and Outcomes of Corporate Political Advocacy Among Consumers.” The funding is a part of the Center’s Page/Legacy Scholar Grant program. Hon, in partnership with CJC doctoral student Leping You, will […]