Social Media: ‘gamechanger’ for news outlets
With greater access to social media platforms and journalist pieces available online, the process of sharing journalism has changed, according to an FIU professor.
Susan Jacobson
SJMC faculty win grant for sea level rise project
Four professors joined forces in the hopes of innovating journalism and civic engagement to address the rising concern about sea level rise in South Florida, and they just received the funds to do so over the next academic year.
School of Journalism and Mass Communication professors Robert Gutsche, Susan Jacobson, Kate MacMillin and Juliet Pinto won a $35,000 grant from the Online News Association Challenge Fund to test their proposed project titled, “Sea level rise in South Florida: How are waters affecting you?”
Cellphone ban spreads across nation’s college campuses
While the ban on cellphones in schools is prevalent in K-12 classrooms, restrictions have also been popping up on college campuses in New York, Wyoming, Nevada and California.
Ideologies the same despite perception
One of the points of contention within the Republican Party right now is the question of electability versus ideological conformity.