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Sinclair Broadcast Group is hiring for multiple positions including: newscast producers news MMJs newscast directors digital content producers video photographers Event Details: Date: Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Time: 10:30a.m. – 5:45p.m. Location: Zoom Please complete the following form to apply for a 15-minute virtual appointment on Thursday, February 29, 2024: Interview…

Digging Deeper, a boot camp presented by TEGNA Anchor/Investigative Reporter Emerald Morrow In this professional development boot camp, Emerald will discuss the following topics: Finding story ideas in public records and non-obvious places Ways to add context to coverage Emerald’s award-winning investigations into erased Black cemeteries across the state Event…

The Advertising Advisory Council is visiting campus on Thursday February 29th and Friday March 1st. All Advertising and Ad-Curious Students welcome!    

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) students were honored in the 2024 Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts competition. In 2024, the contest received almost 1,900 entries from over 300 participating schools. In the Student News Competition, “Inside ICAC” by Journalism senior Chris Will received…

Amy Jo Coffey, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Media Production, Management, and Technology associate professor, will be leaving the College after a 17-year tenure to become the director of the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Tennessee on July 1, 2024. The school…

A new study has found that tailored messages communicated by online agents, both humans and chatbots, are more effective for achieving a positive response. The findings by University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) alumna Sophia Mueller, Ph.D. 2023, former UFCJC dean of Graduate Studies and Research and…

We know that the cost of travel abroad is out of reach for many University students. Actuality Abroad created the Citizen Storyteller Scholarship to make our programs more financially accessible for those who are driven to tell important stories about real life. Applications for scholarships just opened again. Each award…

Jasmine McNealy, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Media Production, Management, and Technology associate professor, will be the keynote speaker for the annual Pockrass Memorial Lecture at the Penn State University Kern Auditorium on March. 11. Her lecture, “Sound/Off: Data, Persuasion and Regulation,” will address the cognitive and…

By Jacob Sedesse, Media Production, Management and Technology senior Anyone who has followed my work throughout my life—and especially at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC)—would know I’m deeply curious about technology. I was raised around computers by my mother, who has worked in UF Information…

More than half of college student news organizations have major financial ties to their university, which can be problematic for student journalists who risk losing their independence if there aren’t several safeguards in place. That was one of the findings in a new report from the University of Florida Brechner Freedom…

Rachel Grant, Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism, is featured on the Communigator Podcast.

The INC faculty will hold a transition meeting on 2/22 from 10-11am in the INC Conference Room.   I have attached the agenda, meeting minutes from our 2/15 meeting and unit proposed bylaws.   Agenda: Funding, effort reports Promotion Vote on proposed bylaws.