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From the Raleigh News and Observer (10/23/09): A political tip: If you're going to send something to the governor's office, you'd better know what's in it.

From the Wilmington Star-News (10/1/09): A flurry of e-mails leading up to the decision to postpone showing President Barack Obama's Sept. 8 speech to schoolchildren has raised questions about whether the Brunswick County school board uses e-mails to circumvent the state open meetings law.

Jessica Gisclair, the associate department chair in the School of Communications, presented her paper "Beauty exposed: A survey of traditional values" at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Oct. 17.

The City of Greensboro and the Sunshine Center of the North Carolina Open Government Coalition have scheduled two workshops dealing with public records and open meetings for Oct. 22 at the Greensboro Historical Museum auditorium. The workshops are free and open to the public, and they will feature multimedia presentations on best practices in making and responding to requests for public records.

Phoenix14News, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's weekly student newscast, was named the best student newscast in North and South Carolina Saturday at the Radio-Television News Directors Association of the Carolinas annual awards luncheon. It's the first time Phoenix14News has been recognized with the award, and it comes on the heels of the show's recognition as best newscast in the nation by the Broadcast Education Association in April.

Frances Ward-Johnson, associate professor in the School of Communications, presented research on blogging in public relations classes at the 2009 International Association of Online Communicators Annual Conference held Oct.1-2 in Washington, D.C.