Month: February 2024

If you are looking to connect with potential students from another country, this is your chance. The UF International Admissions and the International Mentorship Association collaborated on the Global Gators Connect Program. Learn more below: The Global Gators Connect Program matches the Class of 2028 newly admitted international students (called “Future Gators”) with current students (called […]

Sinclair Broadcast Group is hiring for multiple positions including: newscast producers news MMJs newscast directors digital content producers video photographers Event Details: Date: Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Time: 10:30a.m. – 5:45p.m. Location: Zoom Please complete the following form to apply for a 15-minute virtual appointment on Thursday, February 29, 2024: Interview Application Link

Digging Deeper, a boot camp presented by TEGNA Anchor/Investigative Reporter Emerald Morrow In this professional development boot camp, Emerald will discuss the following topics: Finding story ideas in public records and non-obvious places Ways to add context to coverage Emerald’s award-winning investigations into erased Black cemeteries across the state Event Details: Date: Wednesday, February 21st, […]

The Advertising Advisory Council is visiting campus on Thursday February 29th and Friday March 1st. All Advertising and Ad-Curious Students welcome!    

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) students were honored in the 2024 Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts competition. In 2024, the contest received almost 1,900 entries from over 300 participating schools. In the Student News Competition, “Inside ICAC” by Journalism senior Chris Will received the “Best of Festival” in […]

Amy Jo Coffey, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Media Production, Management, and Technology associate professor, will be leaving the College after a 17-year tenure to become the director of the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Tennessee on July 1, 2024. The school is part of Tennessee’s College […]

A new study has found that tailored messages communicated by online agents, both humans and chatbots, are more effective for achieving a positive response. The findings by University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) alumna Sophia Mueller, Ph.D. 2023, former UFCJC dean of Graduate Studies and Research and current UF associate dean of […]

We know that the cost of travel abroad is out of reach for many University students. Actuality Abroad created the Citizen Storyteller Scholarship to make our programs more financially accessible for those who are driven to tell important stories about real life. Applications for scholarships just opened again. Each award is worth $2000 USD and […]

Jasmine McNealy, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Media Production, Management, and Technology associate professor, will be the keynote speaker for the annual Pockrass Memorial Lecture at the Penn State University Kern Auditorium on March. 11. Her lecture, “Sound/Off: Data, Persuasion and Regulation,” will address the cognitive and emotive power of sonic data, […]

By Jacob Sedesse, Media Production, Management and Technology senior Anyone who has followed my work throughout my life—and especially at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC)—would know I’m deeply curious about technology. I was raised around computers by my mother, who has worked in UF Information Technology my whole life. I […]

More than half of college student news organizations have major financial ties to their university, which can be problematic for student journalists who risk losing their independence if there aren’t several safeguards in place. That was one of the findings in a new report from the University of Florida Brechner Freedom of Information Project, which studied […]

Rachel Grant, Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism, is featured on the Communigator Podcast.