{"id":452,"date":"2018-07-25T18:02:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T22:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jou.ufl.edu\/going-greater\/?page_id=452"},"modified":"2019-06-21T12:44:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T16:44:19","slug":"102-years-of-journalism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jou.ufl.edu\/going-greater\/50-anniversary\/history\/102-years-of-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"102 Years of Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1916, journalism was first introduced to the University of Florida.\u00a0 It arrived as \u201cAgricultural Journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

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1916 UF Course Catalog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to the 1916-17 UF course catalog, agricultural journalism included \u201clectures on the fundamental principles of journalism; laboratory work in news gathering, news writing, copy reading. Students will prepare copy for State and agricultural press. (Elective for Juniors and Seniors; 3 hours.)\u201d<\/p>\n

Contrary to popular belief, it was not taught by Mike Foley.\u00a0 The instructor was Maxwell Newton Beeler, a 1914 graduate of the University of Missouri. \u00a0Professor Beeler later went on to write Marketing Purebred Livestock<\/em>, which included chapters on \u201cadvertising, methods and costs of selling, marketing in foreign countries, and tendencies in marketing.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1920, the program was moved to the College of Arts and Sciences and a \u201cnewspaper writing\u201d course was introduced as part of the English Department.<\/p>\n

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1928-29 Course Catalog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1925, the Florida State Legislature approved appropriation for setting up the Department of Journalism and hiring a full-time professor.\u00a0 The program was moved the School of Business Administration and Journalism.\u00a0 The founding professor was Orland Kay \u201cO.K.\u201d Armstrong<\/a>, who later went on to become a working journalist, Republican congressman from Missouri and social activist.<\/p>\n

The College of Journalism and Commerce was formed in 1927 and the department expanded to a second faculty member, Elmer J. Emig.\u00a0 The next year, the first degrees in journalism were conferred and WRUF-AM went on the air.\u00a0 Professor Emig was named department head in 1929.<\/p>\n

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1933 UF Course Catalog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1933, the Department of Journalism was moved back to the College of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n

On July 1, 1949, the School of Journalism was founded and Rae O. Weimer was named head of the school.\u00a0 The journalism program now had three full-time faculty members with the addition of John Paul Jones, Jr.<\/p>\n

In the 1950s, the School of Journalism was accredited (1950), the program was expanded to the School of Journalism and Communications (1954), Advertising became accredited and the school was moved into the Stadium Building (1955). The School started teaching television, WUFT-TV debuted and the program was accredited in Radio-Television (1956).\u00a0\u00a0 In 1959, James \u201cMickey\u201d Ellenberg became the 500th<\/sup> journalism graduate.<\/p>\n

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1968 UF Course Catalog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then in 1967, the Board of Regents voted for the School to become a College and in the first students enrolled for the 1968-69 academic year.\u00a0 John Paul Jones, Jr. was named dean.\u00a0 In 1969, the 100th<\/sup> student graduated from the College\u2019s master\u2019s program.<\/p>\n

Ralph Lowenstein became dean in 1976 and moved the program to the brand new Weimer Hall in 1980.\u00a0 In 1981, WUFT-FM went on the air.\u00a0 In May of 1990, the first two doctoral degrees in mass communication were conferred.<\/p>\n

In 2012, three independent newsrooms were combined into the Innovation News Center<\/a>, a state-of-the-art facility delivering news content through radio, television and digital platforms. \u00a0In 2016, the College launched Hatch<\/a>, a content and product incubator.<\/p>\n

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2016 UF Course Catalog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, the Department of Journalism has 21 full-time faculty<\/a> members and 35 adjuncts<\/a>.\u00a0 Courses<\/a> range from reporting and magazine writing to environmental and solution journalism to data journalism and coding.<\/p>\n

Students are winning awards <\/a>in both college and professional categories, regionally and nationally.<\/p>\n

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