John Freeman

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Journalism freshman Madilyn Gemme received 14th place in the 2023-2024 Hearst Journalism Awards Photo II Picture Story/Series competition. The contest included 88 entries from 54 schools submitted in the second and final photo competition of the year. Gemme’s winning photo story,…

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) today announced that Journalism Associate Professor John Freeman will be retiring in May after nearly 33 years at the College. Freeman has headed the photojournalism program at the UFCJC since joining the faculty in 1991. He is a two-time winner…

John Freeman, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Journalism associate professor, was quoted in “Posts on Social Media Use Different Photos of Fetterman to Boost Bogus Claim” published on FactCheck.org on March 30. The article focuses on Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman’s hospitalization for treatment of depression after…

Two University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) students who participated in the College’s 2022 Berlin Study Abroad program, placed first and second in the University of Florida International Center’s annual Global Culture Photo contest, study abroad category. Journalism junior Alan Halaly placed first for “Sitting on History,”…

John Freeman, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Journalism associate professor, has received second place in the 2022 Center for European Studies Europe Through Photography Contest. Freeman’s winning photo features a Berlin, Germany alleyway located outside a popular late-night spot called Cafe’ Cinema. The photo was shot…

John Freeman, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Journalism associate professor, received the College’s 2021 Senior Faculty International Educator Award. Freeman has led the UFCJC photojournalism program since joining the faculty in 1991. Since summer 2005, Freeman has conducted a two-week study-abroad journalism course in Berlin, where he lived as a…

John Freeman, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism assistant professor, received second place for “Poetry of the Ordinary” in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Creative Research Competition. According to Freeman, “’Poetry of the Ordinary’ could be used as a class assignment if…

John Freeman, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism associate professor, has received first place in the 2020 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Visual Communication Division Creative Research Competition for “Space Between Three.” The competition provides the opportunity to have creative scholarship vetted in…

John Freeman, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism associate professor, was one of 33 graduates of Berlin American High School invited by the city’s mayor to attend an exclusive ceremony recognizing the 70th anniversary of the end of the Berlin blockade on May 12. Freeman, coordinator of…

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Journalism Associate Professor John Freeman’s article “An Ethnographic Study: The Duality of Collaborated Smartphone Images” was published in Visual Communication Quarterly, Volume 24, 2018, Issue 4. The article features 10 of his photographs including one image used for the cover. The…

John Freeman, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism associate professor, asks Adrian Dennis, B.S. Journalism 1993 and 2016 Alumni of Distinction, what it’s like to cover the 2018 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament in “World Cup Soccer: Life on the Road with UF Photojournalism Alum Adrian Dennis”…

A photo essay by University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications May 2017 Berlin Study Abroad students, as well as a feature story by CJC Journalism Associate Professor John Freeman,  are included in the September/October issue of Our Town magazine. “Berlin’s Graffiti” offers a photo montage of the city’s…