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Assistant V.P. University Relations & Director University Communications Florida State University
Franklin D. Murphy is Assistant Vice President of University Relations and Director of University Communications at Florida State University. The University Communications division includes public relations, marketing, media relations, print and electronic publishing (Florida State Times, Florida State Alumni Magazine, other publications and selected web sites) the FSU Photo Lab and television and video production operations of the university as well as its broadcasting units. The broadcasting units include WFSU-FM, 530 AM radio, WFSU/WFSG-TV, 4FSU, Cable Channel 6, The Florida Channel (legislative/government television) and sales, marketing and development for public television and radio. First appointed as director of University Communications in May of 1994, Murphy had been Director of Presidential Communications for the American Bar Association (1987-94). He also served for many years in other top public relations, editing and publishing positions. Murphy was Director of Communications for the State Bar of Wisconsin (1980-86), associate editor of two national magazines, Barrister and Human Rights (1979-80), editor-in-chief of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin (1974-1980) -- third largest daily legal newspaper in the United States -- and president of his own firm, FDM Communications (1986-87). Murphy is a native of Chicago Heights, Illinois. He attended Southern Illinois University and Loyola University (1964-1966). After his service as an Army sergeant in Vietnam (1966-68), he returned to Western Illinois University, where he graduated with honors in English and journalism in 1972. He earned an M.A. in journalism in 1974 from Northern Illinois University, where he was elected to Kappa Tau Alpha, the national journalism scholarship society. At Florida State University, Murphy received the top 1999 Davis Productivity Award for his new concept in online information for college campuses and his leadership of a group that conceived and helped develop LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe. Florida Tax Watch, the State of Florida and the Florida Council of 100 present the award annually. The 1999 honor recognized the development of a powerful and cost-effective, on-line information service now subscribed to by more than 1,500 universities, representing 80 percent of all college students, faculty and staff. In 1986, Murphy became the first and only bar association communications director ever to win the prestigious Athena Award of the Newspaper Advertising Bureau (New York). The award recognized his creative and unique work in developing a special section for the Milwaukee Journal Sunday newspaper edition to explain a complicated, new Marital Property law to Wisconsin citizens. Under Murphy's direction, FSU University Communications has won numerous awards and recognition from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, the Florida Public Relations Society, the Associated Press and other organizations.
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