Month: September 2021

A five-part series taking readers inside America’s most dangerous penal system earned The Marshall Project and Mississippi Today the 2021 Collier Prize for State Government Accountability. The $25,000 award, offered by the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC), is one of the largest journalism prizes in the nation. The 2020 series, “Mississippi […]

Award-winning journalist and CJC alumna Sharyl Attkisson, B.S. Telecommunication 1982 and Hall of Fame 1999, has donated funds to establish the Sharyl Attkisson Investigative and Original News Prize, intended to encourage fresh, innovative and open-minded approaches to independent reporting on important public policy issues at the university, city, county, state or national levels. A first-place […]

Application links for the internships can be found at WSJ.jobs. The deadline for the spring internship is Oct. 15 and the deadline for the summer internship is Nov. 1. Several Internship opportunities linked below U.S. Spring, Part-Time Reporting Digital Platform   U.S. Spring, Full-Time Health Reporting   U.S. Summer, Full-Time Reporting (multiple cities) Pensiero (applicants from […]

Public media stations WUFT-TV/FM, located in the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Division of Media Properties, have received a $20,000 grant from Florida Humanities to produce new programming on the Black experience. WUFT is one of four Florida public media stations that will receive an inaugural “Broadcasting Hope” grant for “Evoking the […]

Andrew Selepak, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Media Production, Management, and Technology lecturer and coordinator of the online master’s program with a specialization in social media, is quoted in “’Digital Detectives’ Now Investigating as the Petito Case Sweeps the Internet” published on baynews9.com on Sept. 22. The story focuses on how the […]

Three University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Brechner Center for Freedom of Information faculty and research associates will present at three sessions during the National Freedom of Information Coalition (NFOIC) 2021 FOI Summit to be held virtually from Sept. 28-30. The virtual FOI Summit will include panel sessions and two hands-on training seminars. Sessions […]

Tonyaa Weathersbee, B.S. Journalism 1981, M.A.M.C. 2016, and University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Hall of Fame 2020, was part of a USA TODAY Network newsroom team that received the Domestic Print and Grand Prize from the 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for “The Confederate Reckoning.”  She also recently received a 2021 […]

Clay Calvert, director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project and Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, is quoted in “Fact Check-Cursing About Biden is Not Illegal, as Satirical Posts Claim” published by Reuters.com on Sept. 21. The article offers examples of social media […]

Rachel Grant, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism assistant professor, is the author of the book review of “Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter” published in American Journalism on Sept. 16, 2021. Grant reviews a biography of William Monroe Trotter, a Black Freedom activist and editor of the […]

Eric Cooks, Ph.D. 2020, a post-doctoral associate in the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications STEM Translational Communication Center (STCC), is featured in “When Patients Engage with Similar Others, Health Outcomes Improve and Other Conversations about Health Disparities,” an episode of the podcast Revise & Resubmit hosted by Kim Bissell and available on […]

Janice Krieger, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications STEM Translational Communication Center director, and a team of researchers has been awarded a National Institute on Aging (NIA) grant to use the virtual health assistant ALEX (Agent Leveraging Empathy for eXams) to recruit older adult minorities for clinical trials. The grant project, totaling $2.1 […]

Ted Bridis, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Rob Hiaasen Lecturer in Investigative Reporting, has been selected for the Board of Directors of the Florida Society of News Editors (FSNE). Bridis is one of the faculty members who oversees “Fresh Take Florida” which provides coverage of Florida state government to news outlets within […]