Journalism

The indie film powerhouse and co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival has directed several critically acclaimed films, including “18½,” a 1970s Watergate thriller that will be screened at 7 p.m. in Turner Theatre.

Robin Newton’s ’07 time at Elon led her to both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions on behalf of C-SPAN.

The Department of Sport Management, in collaboration with the Elon in Charlotte program, Sport Management Society, and Women Influencers in Sport (WINS), hosted a Sept. 29 professional development event at the university’s Charlotte National Campus.

Balderas, an assistant professor of journalism, offered analysis about how the scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon impacted the media.

As part of Elon’s participation in the Pulitzer Center’s Campus Consortium, Rainforest Investigations Network Fellows Fernanda Wenzel and Andrew Lehren visited campus Sept. 24-26 to discuss the impact of investigative journalism and working in the news industry.

The Hometown Holler, a North Carolina politics podcast hosted by Daniel Ayers and Quinn Ray, interviewed Anderson Clayton, chair of the NC Democratic Party, during a Sept. 12 recording discussing local and state politics and how students can make their mark.

Several Elon University faculty members have received awards from the Turnage Fund for Political Communication to further their research on political communication and media literacy.

During its Sept. 23 interest meeting, student leaders and advisers discussed Unity’s mission to celebrate diversity and advance inclusion across the communications and sport management industries.

The Pulitzer Center journalists produced major investigations showing how governments and multinationals have destroyed some of the most critical areas of the planet, and what citizens and consumers can do about it.

The longtime freelance journalist and former faculty member at The University of Arizona will teach in Elon’s School of Communications as well.