School of Communications

Feature stories written by students from the Fall 2008 Reporting for the Public Good course are featured online and in print this week in the Burlington Times-News. The articles, photos and video were gathered by students last fall as part of a news-production partnership with the local daily newspaper.

Editors from The Pendulum, Elon's student newspaper, were honored with Mark of Excellence awards for their work during the Society of Professional Journalists Region 2 conference in Arlington, Va., March 28.

“One on One Sports,” a sports debate show produced by Elon Student Television, was named this week as one of three award-winners in the Newscast category of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences College Television Awards.

Elon students Joey Accordino, Christopher Bunn and Michael Heil were in California March 21 to accept the university's first College Television Award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation.

Frances Ward-Johnson, an associate professor in the School of Communications, has been named to the Universal Accreditation Board, the leading certification body for the public relations profession. Ward-Johnson was appointed to the board by Public Relations Society of America president Michael Cherenson and Felicia Blow, chair of the UAB.

Dale Harrison, an adjunct associate professor and assistant director of the Sunshine Center of the North Carolina Open Government Coalition, spoke with News 14 Carolina on March 19 about public records and open meeting laws that affect the way government does business in North Carolina.

The Educational Foundation of NATPE, the National Association of Program Executives, founded in 1963, invites students and faculty from The Triangle and beyond to a free workshop on Saturday, April 4, 2009.

Janna Quitney Anderson, associate professor in the School of Communications and director of the Imagining the Internet Center, has been named to the steering committee for the World Wide Web 2010 conference.