Month: June 2020

The Center for Public Interest Communications and the  Radical Communicators Network (RCN) today announced that they are the recipients of a $100,000 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Voices for Economic Opportunity Grand Challenge Grant for their collaborative proposal “Changing the Poverty Narrative by Changing the Voices.” This project was one of 28 proposals funded from […]

Three University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications student journalists were recognized in the 2020 National Hearst Journalism Awards Competition. Mackenzie Behm, B.S. Journalism 2020, placed second in Multimedia, Telecommunication junior Sofia Mingote placed second in Radio Broadcast News, and Valerie Lyons, B.S. Telecommunication 2020, placed fifth in the Television Broadcast News Competition. Due […]

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) today announced that public relations veteran Nyree Wright will join the College on August 16 as a lecturer in the Department of Public Relations. Wright currently is the principal at NW Consulting, L.L.C., a public relations firm based in the Washington, D.C., metro area focused […]

Camille Respess, a University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism senior, was one of three college students selected to interview NAACP President Derrick Johnson on “Meet the Press: College Roundtable” featured on streaming channel NBC News Now on June 5. Respess, Anna Salvatore, a Princeton University freshman, and University of Wisconsin junior Tamia […]

Rita Men, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Public Relations associate professor, is the lead author of “’Vision, Passion, and Care:’ The Impact of Charismatic Executive Leadership Communication on Employee Trust and Support for Organizational Change” published in Public Relations Review on June 1. Men, Cen April Yue, Ph.D. 2020, and Yonghong Liu, […]

Herbert Lowe, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism lecturer, and Clay Calvert, director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project, were quoted in “UF Probes Social Media Posts Seen as Racist” published in The Gainesville Sun on June 5. The story focuses on allegations that prospective and enrolled UF students are […]

Dan Windels, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising lecturer is quoted in “Agencies Reimagine Summer Internships Due to COVID-19” published in AdAge on May 26. The COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the advertising industry with many agencies having to cut expenses, reduce salaries and even furlough and layoff staff. Opportunities for aspiring creatives […]

Pro-female advertisements, or femvertisements, receive praise for empowering women. But is that the message that’s actually received? Award-winning femvertisements often draw on the empowering messages contained within feminist ideals while also neutralizing the true political force of those ideals, thus undoing the work of feminism. To better understand the impact of femvertisements, University of Florida […]

Seraine Page, B.S. Journalism 2010, is the author of Freelance Writing 101: Everything You Need to Launch Your Writing Career. The eBook launched May 22 on amazon.com and within a week reached the top position as a new release in eight categories. The eBook draws from Page’s more than 10 years of combined experience as […]

A University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications student film and two news reports were honored in the National Academy of Arts and Sciences (NATAS) 2020 Suncoast Chapter Student Production Awards competition. The winners include: Short-Form Fiction Film: “The Lead” by Madalin Stenzel, B.S. Telecommunication 2019, and Parker Bohner, B.S. Telecommunication 2018. Telecommunication Lecturer […]

Matt Abramson, WUFT Media Services director and a University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications master’s student, is the recipient of two awards from the international 2020 Telly Award competition. Abramson was honored in the Student Social Video category. He received a silver award for “The Send-Off” and a bronze award for “Rolled Up […]

Frank LoMonte, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Brechner Center for Freedom of Information director, is the author of “The ‘Social Media Discount’ and First Amendment Exceptionalism” published in the University of Memphis Law Review, Volume 50, Book 1. In the article, LoMonte argues that speech that would otherwise be clearly recognized as […]