ELLIOTT LEWIS
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PROFESSIONAL BIO
Elliott Lewis is currently enrolled in law school at the University of Akron in Ohio, where he also teaches in the School of Communication. Before becoming a law student, Elliott was a freelance television news reporter in Washington, DC from 1999 to 2009. Over the years, his clients included CNN, BET, Associated Press Television, WJLA-TV, and the Washington bureaus of Tribune Broadcasting and Hearst Television.
Prior to moving to the nation's capital, Elliott's career took him to a number of cities around the country. He has worked as a reporter for WKMG-TV in Orlando, WKRC-TV in Cincinnati, KPTV in Portland, KGTV in San Diego, and KTVN in Reno.
Elliott attended Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, where he studied Spanish and communications. When not in class, he could be found running the audio board at the campus radio station, working in the university’s public relations office, and delivering farm news for the College of Agriculture’s radio news service.
Early in his career, Elliott joined the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and later served on the NABJ Board of Directors from 2003-2007. In addition, he has been an ex-officio board member of the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) and a visiting faculty member at the Poynter Institute, a leading journalism think-tank located in St. Petersburg, Florida.
