School of Communications

Phoenix14News, Elon University’s weekly student newscast, won first place in the nation in the Broadcast Education Association awards competition.

Michael Skube, associate professor of communications, wrote a retrospective on Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike for the Feb. 8 edition of the News & Observer.

Assistant professor Ocek Eke published an article titled “Darfur: Coverage of a genocide by three major US TV networks on their evening news” in the International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics.

The C-SPAN Civic Bus returns to Elon University on Feb. 13, 2009, with a new exterior design and features that include the latest television production equipment. The bus, which stopped by campus last year, will be parked at the Moseley Center from 9 a.m. – noon.

An Elon University adjunct instructor was honored this fall for her research on the way companies describe themselves, and how those descriptions give consumers a better understanding of what the business is really saying about its products and services. Linda Gretton, in the School of Communications, won the Association for Business Communication’s Outstanding Dissertation Award at its annual conference.

Senior journalism and political science double major Olivia Hubert-Allen placed 10th in the Hearst In-Depth Writing Award competition.