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Doug Kass, an instructor in the School of Communications, won two national Telly Awards in the 31st Annual Telly Awards Competition for a series of television commercials he wrote and directed.

David Copeland, A.J. Fletcher Professor in the School of Communications, recently presented a research paper at the annual American Journalism Historians Association Convention in Tucson, Ariz.

Discovery.com, the online publication of the Discovery Channel, featured the work of Janna Anderson, associate professor of communications and director of the School of Communication's Imagining the Internet Center, in an Oct. 18 article.

Michelle Ferrier, an associate professor in the School of Communications, was interviewed by Benet Wilson of the National Association of Black Journalists for BlogTalkRadio.

The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication formally honored ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's School of Communications this week with the 2010 Equity and Diversity Award in recognition of the school's commitment to advancing gender and racial diversity in its programs.

The Sports Broadcasting class in the School of Communications covered the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Phoenix home volleyball match against the University of North Carolina Greensboro Oct. 8. The event was seen live on ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵPhoenix.com via uStream, and it will be rebroadcast on Channel 14 on campus during the next week.

Three ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ alumni received their 2009 national winner Mark of Excellence Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists at a luncheon at the organization's national convention Oct. 4 at the Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas.

Jon Meacham, one of America's most esteemed journalists and a bestselling author, visited ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ this week for the annual Baird Pulitzer Prize Lecture, and the former editor of Newsweek used his time on stage to share with his audience lessons gleaned from the life of the nation's seventh president.