Alexander Charchalis of Phoenix Helps Run National Election Night Broadcast

"Fifty States of Grey" broadcast on PBS to 2.6 million viewers

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Students Produce Live Election-Night TV Broadcast at Lafayette College

EASTON, PA (11/29/2012)(readMedia)-- Alexander Charchalis '15 of Phoenix, Md. was one of 100 Lafayette College students who helped produce a live, election-night broadcast that was televised on PBS to 2.6 million viewers. Charchalis, an economics major, is a graduate of Hereford High School.

Charchalis, who served as co-anchor, was part of an economics course taught by Mark Crain, Simon Professor of Political Economy and chair of policy studies. For the two-hour show, students researched the issues and candidates, wrote scripts, prepared storyboards and had extensive training behind and in front of the cameras

Read more: "Live from Farinon, it's Election Night": http://www.lafayette.edu/about/news/2012/11/07/live-from-farinon-its-the-election-night-broadcast/

View Flickr online gallery of images from "Fifty States of Grey" broadcast: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lafayette-college/sets/72157631955398713/

View YouTube video, Students Produce Live Election-Night TV Broadcast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEWh1Oef9-0

Lafayette is a top liberal arts college in Easton, Pa., with 2,400 students and 215 full-time faculty that offers a wide variety of undergraduate degree programs including engineering.

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