Local Student 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 (11/28/2012)(readMedia)-- Gina Morrone '14 of Whitehall, Pa. 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. Morrone, a film and media studies major, is a graduate of Parkland High School.

Morrone, who served as Twitter 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:" "Live from Farinon, it's Election Night": 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: 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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