Ron Rodgers

Ron Rodgers, former University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism associate professor and Journalism Department graduate coordinator, has been granted emeritus status by UF Provost Joseph Glover. Rodgers retired this year after 16 years at the College. He joined the faculty in Fall 2005 after more than 20…

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) today announced that five faculty and staff will be departing the College before the beginning of the next academic year. Raegan Burden, UFCJC Advertising lecturer of Cultural Engagement, will be leaving the College at the end of the semester to…

Ron Rodgers, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism associate professor and Journalism Department graduate coordinator, was featured in “The Unknown Stories of Titanic” an episode of the Journalism History Podcast. The episode features Rodgers discussing his research “The Titanic, the Times, Checkbook Journalism, and the Inquiry into the Public’s…

Ron Rodgers, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism associate professor and Journalism Department graduate coordinator, is the author of “Baseball and the News” published in the November 2020 edition of the journal American Journalism. This peer-reviewed historical study examines the debate among journalists, newspaper publishers, and the advertising and…

Ron Rodgers, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism associate professor, is the author of The Social Awakening’s Resonance in a Time of Inflection, Infection and Insurrection – a research essay to accompany the publication of “The  Social Awakening and the News: A Progressive Era Movement’s Influence on Journalism and…

Following is an excerpt from an essay by Journalism Associate Professor Ron Rodgers in Journalism History on July 29. To read the full essay, click here. More than once in my journalism classes, I have heard my students attempt to suppress snickers whenever I use the contemporary epithet “woke” in…

Ron Rodgers, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism associate professor and graduate coordinator, is the author of “The Social Awakening and the News: A Progressive Era Movement’s Influence on Journalism and Journalists’ Conceptions of Their Roles” published online in March and in the Summer 2020 edition of…

Ron Rodgers, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism associate professor and graduate coordinator, is the author of a chapter in the new book “Journalism’s Ethical Progression: A Twentieth-century Journey.” The book, to be published on Dec. 15, uses case studies and historical analysis to trace changes in the ways that…

Ron Rodgers, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism associate professor and graduate coordinator, received the American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA) David Sloan Award for Outstanding Faculty Paper for “Journalism and the Concept of the Constructive.” He also received an Honorable Mention for Book of the Year for…

Ron Rodgers, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism associate professor and graduate coordinator, is the author of “Lincoln’s Messengers:  Norman Hapgood’s and Ida Tarbell’s Biographies of the ‘Great Soul’ at the Dawn of the Progressive Era” published in Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present), Spring…

Ron Rodgers, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism associate professor and graduate coordinator, was a finalist for the Frank Luther Mott – Kappa Tau Alpha (KTA) Journalism & Mass Communication Research Award for his book The Struggle for the Soul of Journalism: The Pulpit versus the Press,…

Ron Rodgers, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism associate professor and graduate coordinator, will participate in a panel on religion and the media and also present a paper on “Baseball and the News” at the annual national convention of the American Journalism Historians Association in Salt Lake…