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The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Phoenix Weekly, a sports magazine show that airs regionally on ESPN2 in North Carolina, is looking for students who want to gain more experience and training in high-level production in a cinematic style.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ and the School of Communications hosted the third annual North Carolina College Media Association conference Feb. 20 in McEwen. Students and advisers from student media organizations from across the state participated in the daylong event that focused primarily on interactive media and business practices.

An open house for the Interactive Media master's program will take place at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 20 in the McEwen Communications building.

Paul Parsons, professor and dean of the School of Communications, is the author of an article on diversity plans and implementation in the Spring 2010 issue of Insights, a publication of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Students in Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Interactive Media master's program will soon be flashing their passports and traveling to foreign countries as part of their Winter Term fly-in experience. The entire inaugural class has been broken up into four groups, each of which will be led by a faculty member in the School of Communications.

Students in Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Interactive Media master's program are currently studying abroad as part of their Winter Term fly-in experience, and you can follow their progress by viewing their personal blogs.

In a special section on the future of education, The New York Times cited Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Master's in Interactive Media program as an example of a highly specialized program leading the way in master's level education.

The video interviews recorded by a crew of student researchers at the Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, in November are now posted online on Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Imagining the Internet site.

A team of Â鶹ÊÓƵ journalists led by Janna Anderson, associate professor and director of Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Imagining the Internet Center, is providing daily online news coverage of the fourth Internet Governance Forum facilitated by the United Nations in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.

A record 16 faculty members in the School of Communications will receive university Faculty Research and Development funds for 2010-11.