Student Media

During its annual awards celebration, hosted April 18 in Turner Theatre, the School of Communications acknowledged exemplary student achievement, presented Outstanding Senior Awards, and celebrated this year’s inductees in the Kappa Tau Alpha honors society.

Max Wallace ’26, Brendan Antrosiglio ’23, and a student group in the Interactive Media graduate program all earned second-place awards in the Broadcast Education Association’s 2024 Festival of Media Arts.

Accompanied by Senior Lecturer Kelly Furnas, Elon students Anjolina Fantaroni ’26, Nia Bedard ’26, Fiona McAllister ’26 and Sarah Moore ’26 attended the 2024 ACP Spring National College Media Conference in La Jolla, California.

Elon News Network, Phi Psi Cli yearbook and Colonnades Literary & Art Journal collect Best of Show honors at the annual North Carolina College Media Association gathering at High Point University.

The work of Nolan Elingburg '11, G'12, Joe Bruno '14, Carly Thomas ’19 and Jack Norcross '21 was celebrated at the 38th annual Midsouth Emmy Awards ceremony held Feb. 17 in Nashville.

Led by faculty members Israel Balderas and Jill Auditori, 11 Elon University students received a firsthand look at this year’s presidential primaries in South Carolina and New Hampshire as part of their interdisciplinary Study USA course, The Presidential Campaign Starts Here: The First Primaries.

As a Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow, the journalism major and Leadership Fellow will travel this summer to Copenhagen, Denmark, to examine an underreported policy that leaves inmates released to the community with crushing debt.

Madison Powers ’24, a Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow, traveled this summer to El Paso, Texas, to conduct extensive reporting on families seeking asylum on the United States-Mexico border.

During an Oct. 20 award presentation, the executive producer for WUSA9, a CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C., challenged his fellow alumni and current students “to build a space for people who are not like you.”

The Elon alumnus, who has worked at The New York Times since 2021, recently joined the publication’s Culture desk, where he will focus on pop culture news and the intersection of sports and culture.