Lance Speere

Lance Speere is a Lecturer at the University of Central Florida's Film and Mass Media Program, specializing in digital and multimedia journalism, photojournalism, and news reporting. He has served as a faculty advisor for student media operations in Illinois and Florida and held leadership as national president of College Media Advisers Inc.

His research focuses on the historical roles of newspaper women’s page editors (1950-1975), particularly in Florida, and the evolution of food journalism. Collaborating with his wife, a tenured professor at UCF, he has presented at national conferences and published in journals such as Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Media History Monographs, and Gastronomica. Speere holds a bachelor’s degree from Washburn University and a master’s in journalism from Kansas State University, with prior experience as a reporter in North Carolina, Kansas, and Florida.