Colin Donohue

From the Greensboro News and Record (2/5/10): North Carolinians knew their governor from 2001 to 2009 as Mike Easley, former crime-fighting prosecutor and crusading attorney general.

From the Durham Herald-Sun (2/4/10): On a day when reports surfaced that her predecessor did business through a secret e-mail account, Gov. Beverly Perdue told city and county managers from around the state they have to follow the law and operate open governments.

Paul Parsons, professor and dean of the School of Communications, is the author of an article on diversity plans and implementation in the Spring 2010 issue of Insights, a publication of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Several students in the School of Communications had their research accepted to the 2010 National Conferences on Undergraduate Research April 15-17 at the University of Montana.

When four black students from North Carolina A&T University decided to sit at a segregated lunch counter in a Greensboro, N.C., Woolworth's store 50 years ago, they didn't plan on using media to affect national change. They were simply making a principled stand in their small corner of the nation.

Barbara Miller, an assistant professor in the School of Communications, received a research grant from the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication at Penn State to study ethics in environmental communications.

From WRAL.com (1/22/10): A Superior Court judge ruled Friday that footage from a police video camera showing the events leading up to the fatal shooting of a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill student last summer would remain sealed.

From the Beaufort Observer (2/1/10): The Beaufort County Board of Education often makes many of its decision out of public view. This is a violation of the N. C. Open Meetings law, certainly in spirit if not technically. The intent of the law is that the public have access to the information, discussion and actual vote on any action any board takes.

From the Asheville Citizen-Times (1/31/10): North Carolina needs a public-records law that makes documents created at public expense available to the public within a reasonable time.