COLIN M.

DONOHUE
cmdonohue@gmail.com | 410-428-8233 | cdonohue.com | @cmdonohue

EXPERIENCE SERVICE
ELON UNIVERSITY • Presented on topics of collegiate
Director of Student Engagement and Alumni Relations journalism, leadership and editing
& Instructor in Journalism June 2019-present at national, regional and state
• Handle public relations and communications output for student media, conferences
including writing press releases and leveraging social media to reach audiences • Organized two North Carolina
on and off campus College Media Association
• Arrange alumni outreach efforts, including organizing Homecoming (2010 and 2017) and Society of
events, sending quarterly updates, connecting alumni with students and Professional Journalists Region 2
communicating alumni achievements (2012 and 2017) conferences
• Teach Media Writing, Reporting for the Public Good and Multimedia • Chaired School of Communications
Journalism, requiring development of syllabus and overall course structure, awards and recruiting committees
administration of grades and revamp of course structures • Chaired awards and steering
• Teach Elon 101, a university course intended to introduce first-year students to committee for North Carolina
Elon and to college life College Media Association
• Lead recruiting efforts for the School of Communications, which requires • Served as facutly director of two
attending high school conferences, arranging for faculty to present at Elon residential neighborhoods
conferences and gaining access to local high school journalism classrooms to • Relaunched newspaper at low-income
offer students professionally oriented materials and instruction high school in Alamance County
• Support all student organizations in the School of Communications by • Named Imagining the Internet
identifying professional development opportunities and competitions Fellow and led teams of students to
• Chair Elon University’s Student Media Board seven Internet Governance Forums
in Washington, D.C.
Coordinator and Director of Student Media 2007-2019
• Served as communications manager for the School of Communications,
writing press releases about student, faculty, staff and alumni news, designing EDUCATION
web pages, initiating and maintaining the School’s social media presence, and
communicating successes of the School to internal and external audiences University of Memphis ’07
• Acted as a liaison between student media and faculty, staff and administrators M.A., Journalism
in order to foster trusted relationships and communicate successes
• Worked directly with students and advisers of Elon’s six student media Elon University ’05
organizations to facilitate cooperative relationships, manage transitional B.A., Journalism with minors in French
strategies and compose annual budgets and Political Science
• Led the merger of Elon’s two news organizations—The Pendulum and “Elon
Local News”—into a single news organization called Elon News Network that
features a daily website and weekly newspaper, newscast and morning show SKILLS
• Advised The Pendulum, Elon’s student newspaper, during which time the
organization won more than 100 awards from national, regional and state HTML and CSS, Excel, Keynote, Adobe
organizations InDesign and Photoshop, Google Sheets

MEMPHIS COMMERCIAL-APPEAL
Reporter 2005-2007 HONORS
• Covered high school and University of Memphis athletics, general news, and
features • Distinguished 4-Year Newspaper
Adviser (College Media Advisers),
BURLINGTON (N.C.) TIMES-NEWS 2017
Sports Reporter 2003-2005 • Honor Roll Adviser (College Media
• Covered NFL Carolina Panthers football, NHL Carolina Hurricanes hockey, Advisers), 2010
high school athletics and general features/profiles • Kappa Tau Alpha Top Scholar,
• Copy edited, designed pages and operated AGATE functions University of Memphis, 2007