Month: October 2024

The CJC-HR team is excited to introduce to you a monthly Inside Edition designed to provide you with monthly and timely updates related to the CJC Human Resources Operations. Going forward, the newsletter will be published the first week of every month. We hope you find this information useful. Upcoming Dates and Deadlines Meet the […]

Steve Russell, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Sports Director for ESPN Gainesville and WUFT-TV has announced he will be retiring at the end of 2024 after nearly 27 years at the College. A UFCJC Broadcasting alumnus, Russell has been broadcasting his Sportscene radio show since 1998, Gainesville’s longest-running sports talk show. […]

Cheryl Oberlin, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) director of distance learning and training, has received the 2024 Outstanding Impact by an Individual in Higher Education Award as part of Quality Matters’ (QM) Making a Difference for Students Awards program. QM, a leader in quality assurance for online and innovative digital teaching […]

Roxane Coche, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Media Production, Management, and Technology associate professor and chair, will be featured on two panels at the LSU Manship School of Communication Sports Summit on Oct. 23-24. On Oct. 23, Coche will be part of a keynote panel for “Beyond the Rings: Inside the 2024 […]

Four University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications faculty have been included in the 2024 Stanford University Top 2% Scientists List that shows which scientists have had the biggest impact in their fields. The list was developed by Stanford in collaboration with Elsevier, a global information analytics company. UFCJC faculty Sylvia Chan-Olmsted, Linjuan Rita […]

A new study co-authored by University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Public Relations Assistant Professor Rebecca Frazer examines whether events that happen to a character independent of their behavior also contribute to the development of character liking. The research, “More or Less Likeable: The Role of Behavior-Independent Events in the Disposition Formation Process,” […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) alumna Ekaterina Romanova, Ph.D. 2023, is the recipient of the 2024 Lynda Lee Kaid Outstanding Dissertation Award, a prestigious honor from the National Communication Association (NCA) Political Communications Division. Romanova is now a visiting assistant professor in the University of Kansas Department of Communication Studies. The dissertation […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism Assistant Professor Rachel Grant will be one of five panelists for “The Pittsburgh Courier: Chronicling Black Activism Across the Decades” at the American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA) conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 4. During the panel, she will present her paper, “Saving Black Womanhood During […]

David Cuillier, director of the Brechner Freedom of Information (FOI) Project, is quoted in “Spokane Now Requires a Notary for Some Public Records Requests – ‘A Waste of Tax Dollars,’ Critics Say” published in InvestigateWest on Sept. 30. The article focuses on a new barrier resulting from a Washington law limiting use of public records for […]

Linjuan Rita Men, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Public Relations professor and director of Internal Communication Research, was a speaker at the StratCom Public Forum, the first international event of the Strategic Communications Summit in New York City on Sept. 21. The event, organized by the President of Turkey’s Directorate of […]

Faculty and staff from the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) received funding from the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile, to develop and deliver training workshops on climate journalism and fact-checking in Chile. The project, “Growing Journalism’s Capacity to Address Climate Change in Chile,” aims to enhance the skills of Chilean journalists […]

A new study explored how journalists discuss and explain what they do. Using press coverage around tennis star Naomi Osaka’s decision to withdraw from press conferences at the 2021 French Open Open – a pivotal moment for her and journalists, the authors found that journalists used both manifest (direct) and latent (indirect) journalistic discourse when […]