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Six Interactive Media students are in Austin, Texas, attending the annual South by Southwest technology and media conference.

Professors will research freedom of the press, social media, media images and the way stories of public assistance are communicated.

Alexa Milan '10 won five awards, including three first-place finishes, from the North Carolina Press Association for her work with the Sanford Herald. Samiha Khanna '03 took home a second place honor from the NCPA for a story she wrote with three others for the Indy.

¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ from ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ’s School of Communications and Interactive Media master’s program placed in several awards categories of this year’s Broadcast Education Association’s Festival of Media Arts. They will be recognized at the organization’s annual conference April 15-18 in Las Vegas.

Communications associate professor Byung Lee offered the pre-conference Flash workshop at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Midwinter conference at the University of Oklahoma March 2, 2012.

A popular cable series pops into the School of Communications as show host Robert Irvine asks for impressions of a local eatery.

The former editor of the News & Record in Greensboro will serve as director of communications. Follow the poll on Twitter: @elonpoll

Student leaders from The Pendulum, Phi Psi Cli yearbook and Colonnades were honored with individual and Best of Show awards at the fifth annual North Carolina College Media Association conference Feb. 18 at Winston-Salem State University in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Communications associate professor Anthony Hatcher has joined a wide-ranging group of journalists and academics as a contributor to The Scoop, a blog that critiques media coverage of religion hosted by the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and overseen by Diane Winston, Knight Chair in Media and Religion at USC.