Colin Donohue

From the Shelby Star (8/21/12): There has been no shortage of troubling news reports coming out of the University of North Carolina football program during the coaching days of Butch Davis. Add one more with the puzzling decision handed down recently by Superior Court Judge Howard Manning.

From BlueRidgeNow.com (8/15/12): It's a shame Henderson County taxpayers won't learn the details of why the county's insurance carrier paid $90,000 to settle a female deputy's claim against former sheriff Rick Davis.

From the First Amendment Center (8/14/12): Trainers are telling state workers learning a new phone system that they can use an instant-messaging feature to keep information away from citizens' public-records requests, the state's open-records director told Gov. Tom Corbett in a letter.

Eleven faculty members in the School of Communications presented research and led sessions at the 100th national conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Aug. 9-12 in Chicago.

From the Durham Herald-Sun (8/10/12): Butch Davis received a protective order that ensured his private cell phone records will not be released, but he may still have to reveal calls made from his personal phone that related to his job as the University of North Carolina's head football coach.

From the Durham Herald-Sun (8/13/12): The ruling was convoluted enough that one media outlet initially reported that Butch Davis' phone records were protected from being released.

Elon Communications professor Max Negin is working as a digital media manager for NBC in London for the Summer Olympics.

Jessica Gisclair, department chair and associate professor in the School of Communications, was a lead discussant on “Improving International Understanding through Transnational Benchmarking” at the Oxford Round Table at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, England, July 29 – Aug. 2.