Churchill Roberts

Churchill Roberts, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Media Production, Management, and Technology professor, will retire from the College in August after a nearly 53-year teaching career including 26 years at UFCJC. Previously, he taught at the University of West Florida for 26 years. Roberts’ academic and…

Churchill Roberts, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Media Production, Management, and Technology professor, will be the featured for speaker for the UF Asian Faculty and Staff Association virtual meeting on June 15 at noon. He will focus on three of his latest documentary films covering Asian history…

“The Last flight of Petr Ginz,” a 2012 documentary co-directed by Churchill Roberts, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Media Production, Management, and Technology professor, was recently screened at the Tsiolkovsky International Space Film Festival in Kaluga, Russia. The festival features new films on space exploration as well as…

Churchill Roberts, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication professor and Allyson Beutke DeVito, B.S. Telecommunication 1998 and  M.A.M.C. 2000, were quoted in “’A Skeleton in Florida’s Closet:’ The Johns Committee History at UF” published in The Independent Florida Alligator on July 12. The article focuses on the…

Churchill Roberts, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication professor, was in Memphis on April 4, 1968, the fateful day when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. His experience during that time led to his first documentary film, produced when he was a University of Iowa doctoral…

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications alumni have been nominated for News and Documentary Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Winners of the 38th annual competition will be announced on Oct. 5 in New York City. The nominees include: Best Documentary: Michael Beach…

UF College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication Professor Churchill Roberts has received a $20,000 Art Works Award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support production and post production costs for his documentary film The Curse of the Terracotta Warriors. Art Works Awards support the creation of work and…

Five University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications faculty members have been awarded a total of $16,210 in College seed grants for proposed research. Rita Men, assistant professor, Public Relations Department In recognition of the constantly changing media landscape and communication technologies, the proposed research aims to provide theoretical…