Month: November 2023

By Lenore Devore, B.S. Journalism 1984 Thanks to former Gator radio announcer and University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications alumnus Otis Boggs, who told a young Nick Belmonte, B.S. Broadcasting 1980, he could become a broadcaster after his baseball playing days ended, Belmonte accepted a full-ride scholarship to UF, a move that changed […]

A leading journalism scholar from Cameroon, Africa, will spend the next nine months at the University of Florida developing laws to foster democracy in his home country. Kingsley Ngange, a former broadcast journalist and current deputy vice-chancellor of research at the University of Buea, began studying this month at the University of Florida College of […]

Nathan Carpenter, director of the Atlas Social Media Listening Lab at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, is the co-author of Social Media Research Methods recently published by Cognella Academic Publishing. In the publication, co-authors Carpenter, Joseph Mazer, dean of the University of Tennessee College of Communication & Information, and Brandon Boatwright, […]

Qingyu Yang, a University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Advertising junior, is the recipient of one of the UF International Center’s 2023 Outstanding International Undergraduate Student Awards. The awards recognize undergraduate international students who have distinguished themselves by excelling in their studies while advancing a global citizenship mindset and contributing to the […]

Former CJC master’s student Marty Liquori, the legendary miler who also carved out a lengthy television career as a track commentator, has been awarded the 2023 H. D. Thoreau Track & Field Broadcasting Award by the Track & Field Writers of America. Liquori’s broadcasting career began with ABC Television in 1972, reporting on the Munich […]

The Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information (FOI) Project at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications partnered with the Student Press Law Center to launch the 2023 Student Freedom of Information (FOI) Awards. The two inaugural recipients in the college and high school divisions received cash awards of $2,000 and $1,000, respectively. […]

People seeking government information to make their communities better face frustrations and obstacles because of high copy fees, according to a new study “To Fee or Not to Fee: Requester Attitude Toward Freedom of Information Charges, co-authored by David Cuillier, director of the Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Project at the University of Florida. […]

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“Florida Law Making Gun Carry Permits Optional Leads to Dramatic Drop in Safety Classes,” a story by Fresh Take Florida student journalist Jack Lemnus published in the Miami Herald on Nov. 1, 2023, was referenced in the Miami Herald Editorial Board opinion column “Good Luck Out There, Florida. Gun Safety Classes Drop After Permitless Carry […]

Ted Spiker, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism professor and department chair, is the author of “Eight Creativity Tips for a Stronger, Happier Brain” published on WebMD on Nov. 2. The story focuses on the science and health benefits of creativity and explores the brain-related mechanisms for various kinds of creativity (the […]