Associate professor and director of elondocs Brooke Barnett has produced and released a DVD titled “Documentary Filmmaking: Tips from the Trenches,” which encases interviews with seasoned filmmakers about the technical, legal, ethical and business issues of documentary film.

How will the Internet change the workplace, family life, education and many other foundations of society between 2004 and 2014? Significantly in a future that’s up for grabs – that’s the view of the nearly 1,300 technology experts and scholars who responded to The Future of the Internet I survey.

You could say she had declared her major as a pre-adolescent. At the budding age of 10—still a child—she had already articulated her career aspiration: She had a passion for print, and that was it.

The first half of their day followed a familiar script. They attended meetings. They filled out paperwork. They otherwise hung out in an office and did typical, mundane intern tasks. But in Los Angeles, what first day would be complete without a trip to a television set?

Paul Parsons, dean of the School of Communications, has been elected vice president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (ASJMC) during 2008-09. He will become President-Elect in 2009-10 and then ASJMC President in 2010-11.

Janna Quitney Anderson, associate professor in Elon’s School of Communications, has been named the 2008 winner of the Outstanding Educator Award in the Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).

It’s not that she isn’t used to navigating big cities. She grew up in South Barrington, Ill., a suburb of busy Chicago. It’s not that she can’t be away from home. She and her parents are separated by almost 850 miles when she’s taking classes at Elon.

Research by Frances Ward-Johnson and John Guiniven about the ethics of the social media release appeared in the June 20-26 edition of the Triad Business Journal in an article headlined “Elon professors research ethics of social media use.”

Some days she’ll go hours without speaking English. If she’s taking the subway, she’s most likely speaking Spanish. When she gets to work, she’s definitely speaking Spanish.

Connie Book, associate dean of the School of Communications, spoke with News 14 Carolina on June 26 about public records in North Carolina and how citizens' rights to information kept by government agencies is a key ingredient in healthy democracies.

Paul Parsons, dean of the School of Communications, was interviewed June 16 by statewide cable news channel News 14 Carolina about layoffs announced the same day at the News & Observer in Raleigh and the Charlotte Observer in Charlotte, N.C.

Paul Parsons, dean of the School of Communications, attended the 2008 New Media Academic Summit in Chicago focusing on blogs, twitters, wikis and other social media being used in business, journalism and politics.

Associate professor Jessica Gisclair was appointed to a two-year term as Vice President of Ethics for the Public Relations Society of America Tar Heel chapter in Greensboro, N.C.

Tom Nelson, an associate professor in the School of Communications, presented a paper June 18 in Montreal, Canada, on the topic of diversity in a university classroom. 

Senior cinema major Emily Robinson will attend the Fusion Arts Exchange program in Los Angeles for five weeks. Robinson was selected from a wide field of applicants as one of five American undergraduate students to participate with 15 international students in writing and production workshops at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.

Students in the Elon in Los Angeles Internship Program have just launched their class blog, which they will update regularly throughout the summer. For their first assignment, students were required to create individual autobiographies, which were edited together and produced by senior Jess Linderman.

She sat more than 5,000 miles away from comfortable Elon, N.C. She and her friends were on spring break, so they had left London and traveled to Italy for a brief and relaxing respite. It was a perfect time to visit another country and soak up its cultures and traditions.

The Pendulum will be releasing its first-ever summer edition June 25.

Glenn Scott, assistant professor in the School of Communications, and Elon students Ashley Barnas and Craig Campbell are conducting a research project at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Ministerial meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy in Seoul, Korea, June 16-18.

Associate professor Anthony Hatcher had his first religion story published in the Durham Herald-Sun June 14.

Associate professor Jessica Gisclair will be taking her teaching overseas for two weeks this month.

8-6-0. Eryn Gradwell had mixed feelings about that area code. She yearned to see those numbers show up on her phone. But she also knew they weren’t necessarily the harbinger of good news. A phone call from Bristol, Conn., could mean one of two things: acceptance to the ESPN internship program or rejection. And her chances seemed to be tilted toward the latter.

Tim Barber works Monday through Friday every week during the summer. Sometimes he may come in at 7 a.m., sometimes at 9. But no matter the arrival time, it’s always Monday through Friday—a typical work week.

It must have been a surreal moment for anyone viewing the scene: Two women, sitting in the lobby of the Houston Astros Minute Maid Park, crying with each other. One spouting tears of happiness and acceptance, the other of memories and appreciation.

Photojournalism. That’s it. That’s all junior journalism major Angie Lovelace ever wanted to do.

The Pendulum will be producing its first summer issues ever and we need your help! 

Anthony Hatcher, associate professor in the School of Communications, is interning for the Durham Herald-Sun during the summer for professional development.

Students in the Elon in Los Angeles program have produced the first of five "Climbing the Ladder"  webisodes. The video, which can be viewed on Elon's YouTube channel, chronicles the program's 20 students as they live, intern and take classes in the heart of the entertainment industry.

Kate Catlin '06, an account executive with the Raleigh, N.C., public relations firm MMI Associates, has received the Triangle Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 Leadership Award, which honors up-and-coming leaders under the age of 40 who are making a difference in the community. 

Professor Randy Piland had a photograph run on the front page of this week’s American Profile, a weekly, four-color magazine that is carried in newspapers across the country.

The Pendulum Online has compiled all of its 2008 election coverage onto one Web page for your convenience.

Thirty students from an elementary school in Washington, D.C., spent two days on campus this month as part of a joint program between the Elon Academy and a nonprofit group dedicated to helping under-served youth prepare for and succeed in college.

The School of Communications will be holding Digital Media and Flash workshops from 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Aug. 18-20.

The School of Communications will hold its departmental meeting from 2:15 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 26 in McEwen 011.

Senior Brian Fink was given a national Mark of Excellence Award from the Society of Professional Journalists May 19.

Elon parents Howard C. and Judy Pickett of Cary, N.C., have made a $110,000 endowment gift to enhance the university’s Isabella Cannon Leadership Fellows program. The couple made the gift because of the transformative experience that their daughter, Hilaire, a senior, has had as a Leadership Fellow at Elon.

The 2008 Faculty Assisting New Students (F.A.N.S.) have been announced: Earl Danieley, Janna Anderson, Andi Metts, Chris Leupold, Paula Patch, Glenn Scott and Amanda Tapler.

More than 90 new members were inducted into the Elon University School of Communications chapter of Lambda Pi Eta at a May 6 ceremony in McKinnon Hall.

The faculty and administrators of Elon's School of Communications hosted the institution's annual awards ceremony in McEwen Studio B May 1.

Several School of Communications students took part in Student Undergraduate Research Forum presentations April 29 as part of Elon’s CELEBRATE! 2008 program.

An annual event that recognizes undergraduate scholarship took place Tuesday with poster displays during College Coffee and dozens of presentations across campus by students whose research interests ranged from chemical synthesis processes to the politics of smoking in North Carolina.

Two School of Communications faculty members presented their research during the Student Undergraduate Research Forum April 29.