iMedia

After graduating from the iMedia program, Simmons found a home at the Carolina Panthers.

The Broadcast Education Association, the premiere international academic media organization, released its second annual rankings celebrating consistent student success in the association’s Festival of Media Arts.

Ashleigh Afromsky ’22 joined Assistant Professor Jenny Jiang and Professor Qian Xu to examine the job descriptions of nearly 35,000 positions related to media analytics following the COVID-19 pandemic. Their findings were recently published in the March edition of Journalism & Mass Communication Educator.

To conclude the Winter Term study away course in the Caribbean, this year’s Interactive Media cohort hosted a Jan. 24 presentation to highlight its support of Dove Youth Development, a nonprofit organization that provides educational opportunities and afterschool programs.

The film, the fourth by Cornelius Muller Productions, will be shown on Feb. 24 at Carousel Cinemas at Alamance Crossing before a broader release this spring.

The School of Communications faculty members and Elon alumna Bettina Johnson '06, G ’11 provided news coverage for the prestigious international programming competition held in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

In conjunction with the Student Professional Development Center, the School of Communications hosted the COMM/SPT Meet & Greet on Sept. 20, attracting a dozen organizations – both in-person and virtually – representing a variety of communications and sports-related industries.

The associate professor of journalism wrote “We Are #ALTGOV: Social Media Resistance from the Inside,” highlighting how and why the #AltGov Twitter movement challenged official governmental statements to inform the American public.

Faculty members Israel Balderas, Amanda Sturgill and Shannon Zenner were recognized with awards at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s 2022 national convention.

The professor of strategic communications and A.J. Fletcher Professor in Communications succeeds Dean Rochelle Ford, who was recently selected as the eighth president of Dillard University.