Ethan Magoc | A multimedia journalist in Gainesville, Fla. —

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Assistantship recap: helping UF’s advanced online reporting courses (2011-12)

Matt Sheehan, the director of the University of Florida’s 21st Century News lab and my assistantship supervisor during the first year of grad school, had [...]
Visiting a dry Paynes Prairie in December 2011

Three years ago, I made my first visit to Gainesville with my girlfriend and her family for Christmas. During that trip, we went out to [...]
My top reads of 2011

I consider myself to have had a great reading year, particularly because going to graduate school has exposed me to a wider variety of authors [...]

What I read in December 2011

My first semester of graduate work wrapped up early, followed by a few days of brief initial research into my master’s degree project at the [...]
A piece in gonzo style: ROOT Sports

Toward the end of the semester in “Seminar in Journalism as Literature,” Dr. Ron Rodgers assigned us the task of trying our own hand at [...]
What I read in November 2011

Notes: (1) Most of these receive quite a few stars. The reason is if I don’t like a book, I won’t keep reading. It won’t [...]

What I read in October 2011

I was fortunate to be a little light on projects for courses this month, and was thus afforded plenty of pleasure reading time. Because there’s [...]
A passage to Ellis Island

Writing assignment No. 2 for my Seminar in Journalism as Literature class entailed the following: Write a brief piece that recreates an event (see the [...]
Sketch based on “When a Man Falls…” by Stephen Crane

I had an assignment a few weeks back in Seminar in Journalism as Literature with Dr. Ronald Rodgers in which each person in our class [...]

Peter Bergen visits UF’s Bob Graham Center

Renowned terrorism expert Peter Bergen spoke at the University of Florida’s Bob Graham Center on Wednesday night. I’d had this one on my calendar for [...]