School of Communications

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You could say she had declared her major as a pre-adolescent. At the budding age of 10—still a child—she had already articulated her career aspiration: She had a passion for print, and that was it.

The first half of their day followed a familiar script. They attended meetings. They filled out paperwork. They otherwise hung out in an office and did typical, mundane intern tasks. But in Los Angeles, what first day would be complete without a trip to a television set?

Tim Barber works Monday through Friday every week during the summer. Sometimes he may come in at 7 a.m., sometimes at 9. But no matter the arrival time, it’s always Monday through Friday—a typical work week.

She sat more than 5,000 miles away from comfortable Elon, N.C. She and her friends were on spring break, so they had left London and traveled to Italy for a brief and relaxing respite. It was a perfect time to visit another country and soak up its cultures and traditions.

8-6-0. Eryn Gradwell had mixed feelings about that area code. She yearned to see those numbers show up on her phone. But she also knew they weren’t necessarily the harbinger of good news. A phone call from Bristol, Conn., could mean one of two things: acceptance to the ESPN internship program or rejection. And her chances seemed to be tilted toward the latter.

It must have been a surreal moment for anyone viewing the scene: Two women, sitting in the lobby of the Houston Astros Minute Maid Park, crying with each other. One spouting tears of happiness and acceptance, the other of memories and appreciation.

Photojournalism. That’s it. That’s all junior journalism major Angie Lovelace ever wanted to do.

Janna Quitney Anderson, associate professor in Elon’s School of Communications, has been named the 2008 winner of the Outstanding Educator Award in the Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).