School of Communications

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).

Paul Parsons, dean of the School of Communications, has been elected vice president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (ASJMC) during 2008-09. He will become President-Elect in 2009-10 and then ASJMC President in 2010-11.

It’s not that she isn’t used to navigating big cities. She grew up in South Barrington, Ill., a suburb of busy Chicago. It’s not that she can’t be away from home. She and her parents are separated by almost 850 miles when she’s taking classes at Elon.

Research by Frances Ward-Johnson and John Guiniven about the ethics of the social media release appeared in the June 20-26 edition of the Triad Business Journal in an article headlined “Elon professors research ethics of social media use.”