School of Communications

Tom Nelson and Frances Ward-Johnson in the School of Communications recently participated in the AEJMC Midwinter Conference in the Minorities and Communications Division.

Ken Calhoun, an assistant professor in the School of Communications, has been selected to represent Quick Fiction magazine at a literary festival in Salem, Mass.

It was, to be sure, a straightforward audience question during a previous talk: “Are you a Christian?” But as Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. explained March 9 during a visit to Elon, with the way some churches and its members have invoked God’s name “like a Louisville slugger,” his answer is anything but simple.

Elon University, the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life and the School of Communications will host a day-long Religion and Media conference on campus March 9. The conference, titled "Faith, Doubt and the Media," will feature an evening keynote address by Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist Leonard Pitts Jr.

Elon University, the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life and the School of Communications will host a day-long Religion and Media conference on campus March 9. The conference, titled "Faith, Doubt and the Media," will feature an evening keynote address by Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist Leonard Pitts Jr.

Editors at The Pendulum were awarded Region 2 Mark of Excellence Awards by the Society of Professional Journalists for their reporting and photography.

Two students in the School of Communications were selected as Elon University's first recipients of the Scripps Howard Foundation Award.

Senior Randy Gyllenhaal, a broadcast communications major, finished third in the Hearst Foundation Journalism Awards Program news broadcast competition.

The School of Communications advisory board will be making its spring semester visit Friday, April 3.

Elon University will host a one-day conference on Monday, March 9, that blends religion, film, politics, popular culture and the news business. Speakers from across the country will be on campus to discuss, as the title of the conference states, "Faith, Doubt, & The Media."