School of Communications

Doing an internship at a bustling local television news station in a large metropolitan market can shock some students. They have to love the fast pace and the quick deadlines to be successful. What's the old saying? Stand to the right, walk to the left.

The Hearst Foundation named Elon University senior Randy Gyllenhaal the best collegiate television journalist in the nation on June 6, 2009, at its annual awards ceremony in San Francisco.

The national switch to digital television broadcasting on Friday spurred hundreds of calls to a phone bank at Elon University, where students and staff from the Federal Communications Commission assisted North Carolina viewers with complaints of lost TV signals or requests for analog-to-digital converter box coupons.