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Center for Public Interest Communications Awarded $100,000 Gates Foundation Grant on Poverty

The Center for Public Interest Communications and the Radical Communicators Network (RCN) announced that they are the recipients of a $100,000 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Voices for Economic Opportunity Grand Challenge Grant for… Continue Reading Center for Public Interest Communications Awarded $100,000 Gates Foundation Grant on Poverty

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Center’s Jack Barry Reveals How Lack of Universal Internet Access Puts Millions at Further Risk During COVID-19 Pandemic

In a newly published article on Open Global Rights, Jack Barry, who recently joined the Center for Public Interest Communications as a postdoc research associate, argues that the COVID-19 pandemic… Continue Reading Center’s Jack Barry Reveals How Lack of Universal Internet Access Puts Millions at Further Risk During COVID-19 Pandemic

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Ann Christiano Reflects on her 10-year Quest to Build the Field of Public Interest Communications

Ann Christiano recently completed her 10-year term as the Frank Karel Chair in Public Interest Communications. In a recent interview for the podcast “Let’s Hear It,” Christiano–who now serves exclusively… Continue Reading Ann Christiano Reflects on her 10-year Quest to Build the Field of Public Interest Communications

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Winners of 2020 Research Prize Have Good News for How to Fight Bad News

The 2020 Research Prize in Public Interest Communications has been awarded to two scholars from Cambridge University for a scientific paper that explores how people can be “inoculated” from falling… Continue Reading Winners of 2020 Research Prize Have Good News for How to Fight Bad News

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Latest Issue of Journal of Public Interest Communications Now Available

The latest issue of the Journal of Public Interest Communications (JPIC) is now available. The open access journal connects practitioners to the academic research in an effort to strengthen and grow the… Continue Reading Latest Issue of Journal of Public Interest Communications Now Available

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Using Behavioral Science To Create More Gender Inclusive Organizations

In two new articles on Medium, “How to Design for Diverse and Gender Inclusive Humanitarian Organizations” and “Outsmart Gender Bias through Design,” Center team members and their partners at the… Continue Reading Using Behavioral Science To Create More Gender Inclusive Organizations

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Ann Christiano Receives 2019 Junior Faculty UF International Educator of the Year Award

Ann Christiano, director of the Center for Public Interest Communications and Frank Karel Chair in Public Interest Communications, is the recipient of the Junior Faculty 2019 UF International Educator of the Year Award.… Continue Reading Ann Christiano Receives 2019 Junior Faculty UF International Educator of the Year Award

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How to Use Stories to Bring ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ Together

Writing in Stanford Social Innovation Review, Annie Neimand, director of research, Center for Public Interest Communications, and Samantha Wright, managing director of impact, Exposure Labs, say that advocacy organizations and… Continue Reading How to Use Stories to Bring ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ Together

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Calling for Entries for the $10,000 Research Prize in Public Interest Communications

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications annually awards two $1,500 prizes and one $10,000 grand prize to peer-reviewed academic research that informs the growing discipline of public… Continue Reading Calling for Entries for the $10,000 Research Prize in Public Interest Communications

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Latest Issue of Journal of Public Interest Communications Now Available

The latest issue of the Journal of Public Interest Communications (JPIC) is now available online. The open access journal connects practitioners to the academic research in an effort to strengthen… Continue Reading Latest Issue of Journal of Public Interest Communications Now Available

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Center for Public Interest Communications Awarded $100,000 Gates Foundation Grant on Poverty

Center’s Jack Barry Reveals How Lack of Universal Internet Access Puts Millions at Further Risk During COVID-19 Pandemic

Ann Christiano Reflects on her 10-year Quest to Build the Field of Public Interest Communications

Winners of 2020 Research Prize Have Good News for How to Fight Bad News

Latest Issue of Journal of Public Interest Communications Now Available

Using Behavioral Science To Create More Gender Inclusive Organizations

Ann Christiano Receives 2019 Junior Faculty UF International Educator of the Year Award

How to Use Stories to Bring ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ Together

Calling for Entries for the $10,000 Research Prize in Public Interest Communications

Latest Issue of Journal of Public Interest Communications Now Available

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