Austin Denesuk of Dallas Helps Run National Election Night Broadcast

EASTON, PA (11/29/2012)(readMedia)-- Austin Denesuk '14 of Dallas, Texas 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. Denesuk, a a double major in anthropology & sociology and government & law, is a graduate of Greenhill School.

Denesuk, who served as co-producer, 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: "Behind the Scenes of Lafayette's Student-Run Election Night Broadcast":

http://www.lafayette.edu/about/news/2012/10/31/behind-the-scenes-of-lafayettes-student-run-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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