Colin Donohue

Live Oak Communications, Elon University's student-run, full-service communications agency, received two awards Jan. 28 from the Tar Heel Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America at the annual Spinks Awards banquet in Greensboro, N.C. The Spinks competition is a professional awards program for agencies in the Triad region of North Carolina.

Elon University's 2010 Bateman Team campaign has partnered with the U.S. Census Bureau to bring the 2010 Census Portrait of America Road Tour Bus to campus.

Elon students on a study abroad course in Japan joined in a news conference Jan. 21 to hear the president of Suzuki Motor Corp. declare that the the humble corporate culture of the automaker won't change because of a new alliance with Volkswagen.

From the Greensboro News and Record (12/23/09): A judge’s ruling on whether to release police dash cam videos of the moments that led up to the fatal shooting of a UNC-Chapel Hill student by Archdale police in August won’t come until at least next week, a court official said Wednesday morning.

Elon School of Communications instructor Nicole Triche was interviewed Jan. 21 on WUNC's "The State of Things" about her participation in the Strange Beauty Film Festival.

From the Fayetteville Observer (1/21/10): The Fayetteville Police Department has spent the past week defending its policy of not routinely reporting sexual assaults.

From the Charlotte Observer (1/20/10): Police must release all 911 tapes and police radio communications associated with former Officer Marcus Jackson, a Mecklenburg judge ruled Wednesday.

From the Greenville Daily Reflector (1/20/10): Like many states, North Carolina enacted its public records law to define the relationship between people and their government. It intends to keep citizens informed of decisions by affording them access to all manner of documents utilized in the public realm, and is therefore sufficiently broad to encourage governments to err on the side of openness.

From the Wilmington StarNews (1/19/10): Kure Beach is planning to host a workshop discussing town e-mail accounts and public records.

From the Raleigh News & Observer (1/16/10): Republicans in North Carolina have the chance to become the party of open government. But in Wake County, they are missing that chance.