Comm 2320
Basic Reporting for the School of Communication at ECU

Some non-profit organizations have been around for years. Many of them have national organizations that serve as the blueprint for how they should be run. Citizens against an OLF is very different. It is a Grassroots Organization in Gates County, NC. Their goal is to prevent the Navy from building an outlying landing field in [...]

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The power point that you are about to download discusses the history of the social networking giants: Facebook and Myspace. The study breaks down the way both companies were formed, their global statistics and even compares surveyed data gathered from the Comm2320 class [...]

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When I first started on this assignment I had never thought of what 
my family may have that would be consider an heirloom. After hours of going through pictures and old videos I came across a box full of old letters and other items. The box belonged to my late great grandmother the [...]

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My family has always sought to be a part of education in Pitt County. My great-great grandmother Tessie Leona Speight (McLawhorn) taught at Forbes School south of Greenville. Records go back to 1842 but she taught there just before the 1900’s. She was the head teacher for the one room school house. The school was [...]

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In 1918 the photo of the father of my family was taken. Ned Faulkner was a very hard working man. He was the youngest child of five boys. He lived through the time of the Civil War. He was seventeen at that time. When the confederate soldiers came [...]

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This photoessay features images from the end of the Fall 2008 semester and the Spring 2009 semester. It includes images from ‘Odyssey Live,’ The National Day of Silence, and various service learning projects taken on by seniors in the School of Communication.

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Over the last fews years at ECU, Ross Jackson, a local open air preacher has presented his sermons in the free speech zone on the mall. These images come from six months of photographing and audio recordings of his visits.

Production and images by Carlton Purvis
Music: “How Nothing Feels” by the Promise Ring
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Preparing for this piece I spent some time looking through pictures on sites like the Newseum’s front page archive and worldsfamousphotos.com to find the common denominator that makes them good photojournalism. I also looked at archives of dozens of old newspapers and “Picture of the Week” columns from MSNBC and National Geographic. I spoke with [...]

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