Month: February 2025

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Advertising students and staff were the recipients of 2025 American Advertising Federation (AAF) North Central Florida student and professional ADDY awards. The annual contest, coordinated by AAF North Central Florida chapter, honors creative work completed in 2024. The student competition included entries from UFCJC, Florida State […]

Eric Esterline, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications director of Sports Journalism and Communications and senior lecturer in Sports Media and Communication, is quoted in “The Culture of the Game in Florida: What Changed with the Entry of Sports Betting Online?” posted on the Univision 23 Miami-Ft. Lauderdale website on Feb. 19. The […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Journalism senior Vivienne Serret and student reporter Charlotte Hampton from Dartmouth were featured in “Spark Talks: The Future of Investigative Journalism is Fierce,” a session at the Knight Media Forum 2025 held Feb. 18-20 at the InterContinental Miami. Serret currently serves as a politics and investigative […]

At the start of my junior year, I made a decision. I wanted to work as a motorsports journalist. The only problem was that I had never covered any sport before.  It was a big shift from the environment and entertainment stories I had written for WUFT News, but the excitement I felt at the […]

Nathan Carpenter, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Atlas Lab director, is the co-author of “Describing Acute Coronary Syndrome Symptom Information on Social Media Platforms” published in Heart & Lung, Volume 70, March-April 2025. Carpenter, Mennonite College of Nursing Associate Professor John Blakeman and Assistant Professor Susana Calderon examined how heart attack […]

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism senior Ailee Shanes has placed eighth in the 2024-25 Hearst Journalism Awards Audio News and Features competition for two stories: “Tampa-Area Amateur and Junior Hockey Players Try to Grow the Sport in Puerto Rico” and “Cedar Island Resident Details Horror of Finding Home Washed Away After […]

Randy Wright, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Division of Media Properties executive director, was featured in “Could AI be the Future of Emergency Alerts? Here’s Why Florida is Hoping to Launch It” posted on WPTV.com on Feb. 21. The story focuses on findings from a months-long investigation of significant weaknesses in […]

Chat with Janet Coats, Managing Director of the UFCJC’s Consortium on Trust in Media and Technology.

Jonelle Henry, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) CJCxDC Student Immersion Program director and UFCJC Telecommunication alumna, has been selected to participate in a new media task force created by a partnership between The Black and Missing Foundation (BAMFI) and the Washington Association of Black Journalists (WABJ). The nationwide initiative will advocate […]

Seungahn Nah, Dianne Snedaker Chair in Media Trust and research director for the Consortium on Trust in Media and Technology at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC), is co-author of a new book “Locating North Korea in Communication Research” published by Routledge on Feb. 4, 2025. In the book, Nah, Sogang […]

As a Media Production, Management, and Technology (MPMT) sophomore at the UF College of Journalism and Communications, I have had ample opportunities to put what I’ve learned inside the classroom to use in the outside world. The opportunity that has left the biggest impact on me was working as a production assistant (PA) and leading […]

Two new studies have found that companies should choose to advocate more explicitly about some issues rather than others and that effective communication can enhance engagement with nonprofits. In the first study, the findings by University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Public Relations Assistant Professor Christen Buckley and co-authors Holly Overton, Michail Vafeiadis, […]