Hub Brown wins prestigious 2025 Scripps Howard Administrator of the Year award
University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Dean Hub Brown was named the 2025 Scripps Howard Administrator of the Year. The award, presented in partnership with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), recognizes outstanding administrators in journalism education.
Brown joined UFCJC in 2021 and established himself as a leading higher education journalism and communication program administrator. Under his leadership, the College has continued to fund new faculty positions, grown enrollment post-pandemic and increased donor gifts by 35% including an $8 million endowment to sustain a major journalism award, the largest gift in the College’s history.
Shortly after his arrival, he launched a strategic planning process resulting in CJC 2028, which lays out goals, objectives and strategies to continue the College’s trajectory as one of the top programs in the country.
Some of the signature programs launched under his leadership include the Atlas Lab, a state-of-the-art, AI-driven digital media analysis lab, a rebranding and expansion of the College’s extensive sports journalism and media program and elevating artificial intelligence research with the hiring of two faculty members focused on AI in the Consortium on Trust in Media and Technology.
The 73rd Scripps Howard Journalism Awards, one of the nation’s most prestigious journalism competitions, honor work from television stations and networks, radio and podcasts, visual media, online media outlets, independent producers, newspapers and print publications. A panel of veteran journalists and media leaders selected the winners from nearly 600 entries across 12 categories.
The Scripps Howard Foundation supports philanthropic causes important to The E.W. Scripps Company and the communities it serves, with a special emphasis on excellence in journalism. At the crossroads of the classroom and the newsroom, the Foundation is a leader in supporting journalism education, scholarships, internships, minority recruitment and development, literacy and First Amendment causes. The Scripps Howard Awards stand as one of the industry’s top honors for outstanding journalism.
Former Dean Diane McFarlin received the honor in 2018.
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