School of Communications Alumni

The Communications Alumni Network heard a State of the School address from the dean and an update on the Elon Mentoring Network at its organizing meeting Oct. 20.

Pittman received an Upper Midwest Region Emmy Award for a story he produced for KSTP-TV in St. Paul, Minn.

The School of Communications grad was honored for a story he produced for WGAL-TV in Lancaster, Penn.

Elon honored 10 outstanding graduates of the past decade on March 31 at the annual Top 10 Under 10 Awards banquet.

Doug Finberg ’94, executive vice president for marketing at MGM Studios in Los Angeles, became the second Communications alumnus to receive the inaugural-year Distinguished Alumni Award in the School of Communications on April 26.

New York Times projects editor Jo Craven McGinty, a 1985 Elon journalism graduate who has been a part of two Pulitzer Prize teams, received the first-ever Distinguished Alumni Award in the School of Communications on April 19.

Communications assistant professor Gerald Gibson was recently named the School’s coordinator of alumni affairs, a new position aimed at reaching out to and reconnecting with alumni.

Want to know more about these ten outstanding Elon young alumni? Keep reading this post for short bios of each of the Top 10 Under 10 Award recipients and listen to a few share additional insights about their experiences.

Colin Donohue, coordinator of student media and instructor in the School of Communications, received the 2010 Honor Roll Adviser Award for advisers of four-year college newspapers from the College Media Advisers organization.

Travis Lusk, a 2005 Elon alumnus, and Colin Donohue, coordinator of student media in the School of Communications, presented two sessions about student media Web site development on March 15 at the College Media Advisers conference in New York.