Month: April 2020

Juliana Fernandes, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising assistant professor, will serve as one of two guest editors for Journal of Advertising Education (JAE) Special Issue: Cases in International and Multicultural Advertising, Volume 24, Issue 1, 2020. Fernandes and Ohio University Associate Professor Craig Davis will review submissions of advertising teaching cases […]

Isabella C. Guardia, B.S. Advertising 2018, has received second place in the 2020 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Young Lions Print Competition. Guardia, a junior art director at Leo Burnett in Chicago, shares the award with Mariana Guarín Barkach, a copywriter at the same agency. The client for the 2020 competition was CureSearch, an […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Public Relations Assistant Professors Jay Hmielowski and Myiah Hutchens are the co-authors of “Talking Politics: The Relationship Between Supportive and Opposing Discussion with Partisan Media and Credibility Use” published in Communication Research on April 21. Hmielowski and Hutchens, along with Sarah Staggs and Michael Beam, tested the […]

Cynthia Morton Padovano, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising associate professor was recently honored by the American Academy of Advertising’s Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising (JCIRA) as the 2020 Journal Reviewer of the Year. Morton Padovano has worked in the field of advertising as a researcher, educator, consultant, and […]

From December 2007 until June 2009, the U.S. was in the middle of what came to be known as The Great Recession, the most severe economic recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. We asked CJC alumni who graduated in the midst of the Great Recession to share their experience during that time and […]

Patient participation in cancer clinical trials (CCTs), is critical to the discovery of new treatments and medications.  CCTs are becoming a measure for quality cancer care, and therapies offered through clinical trials are being considered the preferred treatment choice for physicians and patients. But patient participation in CCTs remains low. Research has shown that primary […]

Six University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications alumni were honored as part of the UF Alumni Association 2020 “40 Gators Under 40” awards. The awards honor young alumni whose achievements positively reflect UF. The 2020 CJC alumni honorees include Erin Cigich, B.S. Advertising 2007,  Jeff Darlington, B.S. Journalism 2004,  Amanda Hyland, B.S. Journalism […]

Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 Time: Noon Eastern / 11 am Central Access: Join us by registering at: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Dbx9iS3AR0OacT5YnGf4qkFcgt8qpMBAujO51699h0VUNjFLUEQ1SldURktJMjYxTFVaUVFISlVPWS4u Cost: Free  Chikage Windler, Chief Meteorologist at Sinclair Broadcast Group’s CBS station in Austin, Texas will be presenting.

COVID-19 is having a significant financial impact on U.S. newsrooms, at a time when accurate, unvarnished reporting is more critical than ever. As a result, the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information announced today the launch of Brechner Reporting Fellows, 10 fellowships for professional journalists experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19. Fellows will be granted […]

The first presentation in the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications’ new online “Great Storytellers: Women and the Art of Film” series was featured in “CJC Hosts First Women and the Art of Film Speaker” written by Journalism junior Julia Collins and published in The Independent Florida Alligator on April 20. The series […]

Deaven Hough, M.A.M.C. 2017, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Center for Translational Science Institute (CTSI) recruitment specialist and STEM Translational Communication Center Postdoctoral Associate Elizabeth Flood-Grady, are the authors of “Getting Started with Social Media to Recruit Research Participants” published in Clinical Researcher on April 14. Hough and Flood-Grady found that recruiting […]

The practice of journalism faces a myriad of challenges, including a continual stream of complaints about the credibility of today’s news. The advent of “fake news” has tarnished the longstanding trust and transparency considered the foundation of journalism. To combat this trend, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism Professor Kim Walsh-Childers and colleagues drafted recommendations for […]