Colin Donohue

From the Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press (2/18/09): Original notes taken by the investigator whose report led to the firing of nine county employees don't exist, a county official said Tuesday.

Two new faculty members with strong and varied professional and educational backgrounds joined the ranks in the School of Communications in the Winter and Spring of 2009.

Film distributor Reframe recently picked up Communications instructor Nicole Triche’s short film "Metacarpus."

From WRAL.com (2/12/09): The News & Observer is the winner of the 2008 Senator Sam award for the support of open government, presented Thursday by the North Carolina bureau of The Associated Press.

The products of student research and documentary broadcast work at the 2007 Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, have reaped many rewards over recent weeks.

From the Hendersonville Times-News (2/12/09): It’s happened again. A small town police chief has been suspended. The chief claims that there is more to the story, a story that he can’t or won’t tell.

Four School of Communications alumni spoke to a packed room of students and professors Monday afternoon, detailing their experience in the field of communications and their internships that helped them lead them to their current careers.

From Mountain Xpress News (2/4/09): While a recent release asserted that URTV follows open-meetings law, a video has surfaced with statements made by Executive Director Pat Garlinghouse at the public-access channel’s last board meeting that misrepresent that law, according a North Carolina Press Association attorney—and some board members claim they were not consulted in a press release that claimed to speak on their behalf.

From Mountain Xpress.com (2/11/09): The URTV offices were dark and the doors locked at 8 a.m. on Feb. 9, making it unclear if a planned special meeting of the public-access channel’s Executive Committee was inside.