Month: February 2026

Santiago Kember and Mariano German Coley to serve on prestigious advertising awards juries
/University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Advertising Lecturer Santiago Kember will serve as a judge for the 2026 Hispanic Marketing Council (HMC) Strategic Excellence Awards and UFCJC Advertising Lecturer in Creative Mariano German Coley, has been selected once again to be an international jury member for The AdForum PHNX Festival 2026. Kember, […]
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UFCJC alum named new POLITICO Newsroom Architect
Andrew Briz, B.S. Telecommunication 2018, has been named the inaugural POLITICO newsroom architect. In this new role, Briz will lead the editorial-facing technology strategy across product development and technical infrastructure. Briz is tasked with building an evaluation framework in partnership with newsroom leaders, creating a blueprint for rapid prototyping and developing newsroom products that leverage […]
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Three UFCJC faculty recognized as a 2026 Faculty Champion by the Center for Community News
/The Center for Community News (CCN) at the University of Vermont (UVM) has named three University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) faculty members to the CCN 2026 Faculty Champions cohort. Innovation News Center Sports Director Jeremy St. Louis and Summer Media Institute Director Maria Fernanda Camacho along with Journalism Assistant Professor Antoine […]
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Andrew Selepak comments on the impact of a possible Section 230 elimination
Andrew Selepak, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Media Production, Management, and Technology associate instructional professor, was featured in “Social Media Under the Microscope: If Section 230 was eliminated it would be absolutely devastating for the internet” during a CNBC Power Lunch segment on Jan. 27. Section 230 is part of the 1996 […]
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New UFCJC student produced sports magazine goes beyond the box score to uncover deeper narratives
Grandstand Magazine, a new print and digital publication by University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications students, aims to go beyond the box score to uncover deeper narratives within the sports world and to report and tell them in compelling ways. The magazine was created in the fall of 2025 by Journalism Sports Lecturer […]
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We Asked AI To Turn Our Newsletter Into A Podcast
/Using a tool called Google NotebookLM, we turned last month’s Collier Newsletter into a podcast. We didn’t know exactly what to expect. We thought we’d get a reading of the newsletter from top to bottom. We definitely didn’t expect a 16-minute discussion between two “hosts” providing meaningful background on the Collier Prize program and history, and […]
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