Faculty
Wayne Garcia
Senior Instructor
CONTACT
Office: CIS 3084
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BIO
Wayne Garcia is an award-winning journalist and educator, working in Florida newspapers, colleges and political campaigns for 30 years. He is a senior instructor and former director of Zimmerman School of Advertising and Mass Communications. His background is in political and investigative journalism.
Garcia teaches courses in Media and Society, Radio and Podcasting, Beginning Reporting, Beginning Reporting, and Writing for the Mass Media.
As a journalist, he worked for the St. Petersburg Times, Tampa Tribune and Gainesville Sun daily newspapers. During his tenure as the political editor for the alt-weekly Creative Loafing, Garcia won two Sunshine State Awards for his political writing and his widely read political blog. He was the 2009 recipient of the Irene Miller Vigilance in Journalism Award from the Pinellas Chapter of the ACLU.
He is a past executive director of the Florida Scholastic Press Association, the leading advocacy group for high school journalists in the state. As a political consultant for nine years, he ran or was part of more than 100 campaigns in the state of Florida.
education
- Master of Arts, University of South Florida
- Bachelor of Science in Journalism, University of Florida