School of Communications

Sophomore communications major Pam Richter had a first-person editorial published in the Greensboro News & Record Dec. 9.

Teens at Cummings High School in Burlington, N.C., published a newspaper this week for the first time in four years after meeting every Monday throughout the fall for guidance from Elon University faculty, staff and students.

Hal Walker, an associate professor of leisure and sport management, presented research in October at the International Academy of Business and Economics (IABE) conference in Las Vegas. The title of his presentation: “The Relationship between Psychological Commitment, Participation Frequency and Purchase Intention in Recreational Golfers.”

Professors and students in the Department of Leisure and Sport Management attended two conferences in recent months to present research related to technology, media and college choice decisions.

Elon's study of the nation's switch to digital television broadcasting was included in a Nov. 1 Broadcast Engineering story.

Janna Anderson, associate professor in the School of Communications, has developed a new way of teaching the upper level writing class, Reporting for the Public Good. Instead of handing in typed up and printed out articles about campus events, students post their stories to the blogging site WordPress. According to Anderson, this emerging style of journalism will enable her students to become mobile journalists, or mojos.

Documentarian Donna Campbell of Minnow Media spoke to a group of elondocs’ students at a Dec. 3 meeting.

It was the ultimate post-election trip for 10 students from the two journalism groups at Elon University. The students from the Elon chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the Radio & Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) toured major Washington, D.C., news outlets and other media sites the week before Thanksgiving. The media tour was sponsored by SPJ, RTNDA and the School of Communications.