The College in the News

The Chronicle of Higher Education on June 3, 2015 published “Journalism Center Experiments With Delivering Campus News on Yik Yak,” featuring Innovation News Center Director Matt Sheehan and graduate student Whitney Lavaux.

Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert is featured in the June 1, 2015 stories in Time, “What the Supreme Court Didn’t Say About Rap,” and VICE, “For Now, the Supreme Court Has Little to Say About the Issue of Online Harassment,” regarding the Supreme Court decision in the…

PBS MediaShift on June 2, 2015 published “Why the University of Florida Partnered with Yik Yak for Content,” an interview with Innovation News Center Director Matt Sheehan.

“Rain: A Natural and Cultural History” by Hearst Visiting Professional and Alumna of Distinction Cynthia Barnett, JM 1989, MA 2003, is listed on this year’s J.P. Morgan Summer Reading List.

Public Relations Professor and Karel Chair in Public Interest Communications Ann Christiano in interviewed in this episode of the Launch Yourself podcast published May 28, 2015. http://traffic.libsyn.com/launchyourself/Ep27-AnnChristiano.mp3

Innovation News Center Director Matt Sheehan is interviewed by Dan Reimold of College Media Matters on this episode of the College Media Podcast published May 27, 2015. https://soundcloud.com/dan-reimold/college-media-podcast-matt-sheehan-innovation-news-center-university-of-florida

PBS MediaShift on May 28, 2015 published “Why We Messed with a Good Thing by Converging Our Florida Newsrooms,” an article by Innovation News Center Director Matt Sheehan.

The Conversation on May 26, 2015 published “Why does social media advertising fall flat?,” a study on the effectiveness of Facebook ads by Advertising Professor Jon Morris.

The Los Angeles Times on May 21, 2015 published, “It’s not just a ‘California drought,’” an op-ed piece by Hearst Visiting Professional and Alumna of Distinction Cynthia Barnett, JM 1989, MA 2003.

Washington Post news media blogger Erik Wemple quotes Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication Clay Calvert regarding the the lawsuit filed by University of Virginia Associate Dean Nicole Eramo against Rolling Stone in the May 12 story, “Lawsuit against Rolling Stone claims ‘doctored’ photograph cast dean as ‘villain.’”

‘Breaking’ News: Why we’re examining many of the things we’ve spent the last 18 months building in our newsroom Innovation News Center Director Matt Sheehan gives an update about the INC in the article, “‘Breaking’ News: Why we’re examining many of the things we’ve spent the last 18 months building…

Time on April 30, 2015 published “15 Tips for High School Graduates” by Associate Professor and Interim Journalism Chair Ted Spiker.