CCI Students Win at Florida AP College Award Ceremony

In April, eight CCI students qualified as finalists for the Florida Associated Press Broadcast College Contest, held by Associated Press Florida. Here’s a list of our accomplishments at this year’s Florida Associated Press College Awards. Of the eight finalists, there was one 1st place winner and three runner-ups in their respective categories. 1st place winner: …

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20 Questions with Patrick Merle

20 Questions with Patrick Merle What was your first job? I freelanced for an economic magazine in Paris and for Runner’s World website. My first full-time job was to be a reporter in the international unit of a French network. If you were to write a personal memoir, what would you name it? Maybe “Le …

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Meet Alumnus Ed Stephen: CNN Executive Leader, Media Expert

Ed Stephen has always been a media guy at heart. While studying Communications at Florida State in the early 1990s, he worked at local TV stations WCTV and WFSU. “Broadcast TV has always sorta been my thing,” Stephen said. “Now it’s more about local media. “Now” is CNN – the cable network in nearly every …

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Merle pens article on Le Pen Family Feud

Patrick Merle, assistant professor in the School of Communication, wrote an article for the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) on the Le Pen family, currently in the news for a familial dispute. With family politics merging with public politics, Merle wrote a succinct review of the family’s feud. The article was published on …

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Grad student to intern in Germany with United Nations

Melissa Kaye Angel is a graduate student and teaching assistant in the School of Communication, studying Media Communication Studies. Focusing on environmental and climate change communication, she works as a Media Editor for the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, where she focuses on videography and editing content. In addition to her studies and work, she …

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SCOM students awarded at 2015 Annual Convention of the Broadcast Education Association

Each year the Broadcast Education Association invites scholarly papers from academics, students and professionals for presentation at BEA’s annual conference in Las Vegas, Nev. Two School of Communication students, Di Cui and Zihan Wang, are to present their winning paper at the Annual Convention on April 13, 2015. The Broadcast Education Association strives to coalesce media audiences, economics, law …

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