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The Lead 3 Dean Jean Folkerts WHO 4 4 5 5 8 9 9 11 11 17 19 20
Faculty New Faculty Tenured, Promoted and New Roles Park Visiting Professorship Faculty Directory Faculty Retirement Lecturers Faculty Honors and Awards Students Enrollment Snapshot Student Honors School Scholarships and Awards Student Organizations Commencement Lists
Staff 24 New Staff 24 Staff Retirements and Departures 25 Staff Directory Alumni 26 Alumni News and Features 30 Ph.D. Alumni Association 31 33 33 34 35 36
Advisory Boards Board of Advisers Journalism Alumni and Friends Association ( JAFA) JOMC Foundation Center for Media Law and Policy Advisory Board Medical and Science Journalism Advisory Board Carolina del Norte Advisory Board
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Diversity efforts at Carolina and the J-school
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Remund named Page Legacy Scholar
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Carolina at the Conventions
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Hussman honored with Distinguished Alumnus Award
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Verna Gates receives national lifetime achievement award
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Poynter names two Carolina J-school grads to board
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Chuck Stone’s dream of diversity lives on
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Fortune’s Sloan bullish on careers in business journalism
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37th Frame
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The Northeast Central Durham VOICE
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News21: Powering a Nation
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Fund for the Future
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McKinney teams with J-school for first undergraduate strategy workshop
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Hardship and Hope
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Research
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ABC News on Campus Accreditation Advertising Blogs Business Journalism Career Services Carnegie-Knight Initiative Carolina Community Media Project Carolina News Studio Center for Media Law and Policy Curriculum Distance Education Electronic Communication Graduate Program ibiblio Information Technology and Computing Services
The first century of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC-Chapel Hill
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Visitors 37 Visiting Scholars 37 Visiting Professionals WHAT 40 40 41 41 43 44 45 50 51 51 52 53 53 56 58 58
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Prior to 1909
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Before the introduction of journalism education at UNC, journalism still thrived on campus. The Tar Heel was founded by the University Athletic Association to publicize athletic events. The University Press, a private printing shop in New West incorporated by five faculty members, printed the Tar Heel and university publications, providing work experience for aspiring journalists.
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What (continued) 58 Interdisciplinary Health Communication 62 iTunes U 62 J-link 62 M.A./J.D. Dual Degree Program 63 Medical and Science Journalism Program 64 Mentoring and Networking 64 N.C. Halls of Fame 66 N.C. Scholastic Media Association 68 Observatory on Corporate Reputation 68 Park Library 69 Professional Education 69 Program on Public Life 72 Public Relations 72 Reporting Program 72 Sports Communication 74 Twitter Accounts 74 Visual Communication 83 Workroom 83 YouTube When 84 Timeline 92 2010 Calendar
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Centennial
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www2010: International World Wide Web conference
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Roy H. Park Lecture with P.J. O’Rourke
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Fiscal Year Giving Fiscal Year Giving History Charles Gerrard Society Donors
The 2009-2010 Centennial Yearbook and Dean’s Report is a publication of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Where 94 Carroll Hall 95 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 95 International 100 Alumni Locations How 106 106 107 108
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Being Asheville Living Galapagos
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Attorney Wade Hargrove honored with media law colloquium at UNC
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W. Horace Carter 1921–2009
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Remembering Stephen Gates
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Reese Felts 1930–2009
Dean Jean Folkerts Associate Dean for Development and Alumni Affairs Speed Hallman Editors Morgan Ellis, Kyle York Designer Karen Hibbert, UNC Design Services
Copyright 2010 UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication All rights reserved. Send address corrections to: Amy Bugno UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication Campus Box 3365 Chapel Hill, N.C. 27599-3365 Call: 919.962.3037 E-mail: amybugno@unc.edu
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Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics, Penny Abernathy, to build a national resource at the school for digital media economics and emerging advertising models.
Journalism education began at Carolina a century ago when Edward Kidder Graham taught the first course that would lay the foundation for what has become one of the world’s very best schools of journalism and mass communication. Graham, a visionary leader who became president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is credited with setting the course for the University’s commitment to service and outreach to the state. His vision is alive and well today at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
In our centennial year, we have launched an ambitious new curriculum, converted our television studio to high definition, expanded our global reach and forged new research partnerships to ensure that quality journalism thrives in the digital age. We are increasing our focus on the business side of digital media. A new Knight Chair in Digital Advertising funded by the Knight Foundation will work with the school’s Knight
It’s an exciting and transformational time at the school. I hope you enjoy learning more about the school in the pages of this special centennial edition of our annual dean’s report and yearbook.
Thank you,
Jean Folkerts, Dean
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We do our work in a time of great change for the industry we serve, and we embrace our role to help shape its future.
Chris Roush, the school’s Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Scholar and director of the Carolina Business News Initiative, is working with the Kenan-Flagler Business School to begin offering a major in business journalism. It’s another example of how the school continually reaches out and finds new ways to collaborate and respond to the needs of students and society. THE LEAD
I have the great honor and privilege of working with what I believe to be the nation’s best faculty, most talented students and most loyal alumni to usher in the second century of journalism and mass communication education in Chapel Hill.
Monty Cook, former senior vice president and editor of The Baltimore Sun and baltimoresun.com, has joined the faculty to lead an experimental digital news and audience research initiative designed to help news organizations adapt to the new media environment. The initiative, funded with a $3.5 million gift from the estate of Carolina alumnus Reese Felts, differs from digital media efforts at other universities because it will function as a research center that studies products, audiences and communities that form around the news.
Students in the University Press Association wrote stories about the University for their hometown newspapers – an activity supported by UNC leaders because it was the University’s only source of publicity. Before 1893, several UNC graduates were working for major newspapers in the state and nation.
WHO Faculty New Faculty Assistant professor Trevy McDonald joined the school’s faculty in January 2010. Her teaching interests include diversity and media, electronic communication and media and society. Her research interests include media socialization, media uses and effects, audience studies and race and gender. She is the owner of Reyomi Global Media Group, an independent book publishing and consulting company based in Durham, N.C. McDonald is the co-editor of two scholarly anthologies, and she authored the novel “Time Will Tell.” Before coming to Carolina, McDonald taught communication courses at N.C. State University, N.C. Central University and Spertus College. She was honored in 2008 with a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh where she serves on the alumni association board of directors. Chad A. Stevens joined the school in July 2009 from MediaStorm, a multimedia production company based in New York City, where he was an award-winning documentary producer/editor.
Stevens has been on the faculty of visual communication programs at Western Kentucky University, the International Center of Photography and Ohio University. He is working on a feature length documentary film on the conflict over energy extraction in Appalachia. Stevens has received two Emmy nominations, one Webby Award and many photography and multimedia awards in the Pictures of the Year International and National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism competitions. While teaching at Western Kentucky, he won the University Faculty Award for Public Service in 2006. He is a 1999 graduate of Western Kentucky and earned his master’s at Ohio University in 2009. He has interned at National Geographic Magazine, The Hartford Courant, the Muskegon Chronicle and the Jackson Hole Guide.
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During his time as a student at Western Kentucky, he traveled to Palestine and other Middle East countries. He was named 1997 College Photographer of the Year.
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Tenured, Promoted and New Roles Trevy McDonald
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Rhonda Gibson was appointed academic director for the Master of Arts in Technology and Communication effective Jan. 1, 2010. Cathy Packer was promoted to full professor and named director of the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy. Lucila Vargas was promoted to full professor. Ruth Walden was named director of the UNC Center for Faculty Excellence.
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Roy H. Park Distinguished Visiting Professor W. Wat Hopkins, a professor of communication at Virginia Tech, is the Roy H. Park Distinguished Visiting Professor in the school in spring 2010. Hopkins is teaching a course in communication law, working with graduate students and presenting his research. Hopkins, who received both his master’s and doctorate from Carolina’s J-school, teaches communication law and journalism courses at Virginia Tech. He has published three books and a number of articles on free speech topics. He is editor and co-author of a communication law textbook, and he is editor of a law journal. He is a founding member of the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council and is a member of the board of directors and past president of the Virginia Coalition for Open Government. The visiting professorship is funded by the Triad Foundation of Ithaca, N.Y. Past Park visiting professors include: 2001 Ken Smith, professor, University of Wyoming 2002 Christine Ogan, professor, Indiana University 2003 John Merrill, professor emeritus, University of Missouri
2006 David Arant, professor, University of Memphis 2007 Melissa Johnson, associate professor, N.C. State University 2008 Anne Cooper-Chen, professor, Ohio University 2008 David Weaver, professor, Indiana University
Penny Muse Abernathy Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics 919.843.4910 pennyma@email.unc.edu Debashis Aikat Associate professor 919.962.4090 da@unc.edu Andy Bechtel Assistant professor 919.843.8295 abechtel@email.unc.edu Lois Boynton Associate professor 919.843.8342 lboynton@email.unc.edu Jane Brown James L. Knight Professor 919.962.4089 jane_brown@unc.edu Napoleon Byars Assistant professor 919.843.7274 nbyars@email.unc.edu Queenie Byars Assistant professor 919.843.7631 qbyars@email.unc.edu Francesca Dillman Carpentier Assistant professor 919.843.1035 cesca@unc.edu
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The first journalism course: Edward Kidder Graham, a former Tar Heel editor, taught English 16, “Journalism,” on Sept. 9, likely in Smith Hall (now Playmakers Theater) to begin formal journalism instruction. The two-credit course was described as “the history of journalism; the technique of style; the structure of the news story; and the study of modern journals” in the 1909–10 academic catalog.
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2004 Edward Caudill, professor, University of Tennessee
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Slowly growing: English professors James Finch Royster and Richard Hurt Thornton expanded the journalism program and established ties with North Carolina newspapers.
Craig Carroll Assistant professor 919.962.0735 craig.carroll@unc.edu
David Cupp Assistant professor 919.843.7813 dcupp@email.unc.edu
Barbara Friedman Assistant professor 919.843.2099 bfriedman@unc.edu
Bill Cloud Associate professor 919.962.4070 bcloud@email.unc.edu
Pat Davison Associate professor 919.962.4073 pdavison@email.unc.edu
Richard Cole John Thomas Kerr Jr. Distinguished Professor 919.843.8289 richard_cole@unc.edu
Frank Fee Associate professor 919.962.4071 ffee@email.unc.edu
Rhonda Gibson Associate professor and director, MATC program 919.843.8296 gibsonr@email.unc.edu
Paul Cuadros Assistant professor 919.962.4091 cuadros@email.unc.edu
Jean Folkerts Dean and Alumni Distinguished Professor 919.962.1204 jean_folkerts@unc.edu
Ferrel Guillory Lecturer and director, Program on Public Life 919.962.5936 guillory@unc.edu Jim Hefner Professor of the practice of journalism 919.962.6733 jrhefner@email.unc.edu
Diversity efforts at Carolina and the J-school
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Diversity was one aspect that came under review during the school’s 2009 re-accreditation visit. The school was specifically commended for support of targeted hiring and gender diversity within the faculty, administration and staff. Women represent 40 percent of the faculty and hold major leadership positions in the school. Minorities represent 19 percent of the faculty. Minorities make up approximately 16 percent of the school’s enrollment. While this percentage is lower than the state’s minority representation (32.8 percent), it is higher than many other units on campus. Moreover, minority students interviewed during the accreditation visit said that the environment is inclusive, but they said they would like more guest speakers from diverse races and ethnicities. The school takes a broad view of diversity, seeking to be inclusive of racial, ethnic, cultural and gender differences. The school also embraces interdisciplinary and international programs. Like many departments at UNC, the school has taken action steps to support University’s diversity goals. Carolina’s most recent annual diversity plan report revealed “uneven to modest success” in achieving greater racial/ethnic diversity among faculty and staff. “It will take time to achieve
everything we hope to accomplish,” said Chancellor Holden Thorp. UNC’s diversity goals include: • publicizing commitment to diversity; • achieving critical masses of underrepresented populations; • offering quality diversity training and education; • addressing climate in which respectful discussions of diversity are encouraged; and • conducting research on diversity. J-school faculty, staff and students seek and engage in diversity initiatives that support the University’s goals. For many years, the school has worked for diversity through programs such as the N.C. Scholastic Media Association, Project Uplift and various undergraduate admissions programs such as Scholars Day, Decision Day, Carolina Connect and Explore Carolina. Here is a sampling of the school’s new and continuing diversity programs: • When UNC’s student body president was murdered in 2008, and two young men from Durham were charged with the crime, one professor initiated an urban youth community newspaper and Web site (durhamvoice.org) for Northeast Central Durham. A $25,000
Heidi Hennink-Kaminski Assistant professor 919.962.2555 h2kamins@unc.edu
Paul Jones Clinical associate professor 919.360.7740 pjones@metalab.unc.edu
Joe Bob Hester Associate professor and associate dean for undergraduate studies 919.843.8290 joe.bob.hester@unc.edu
Sri Kalyanaraman Associate professor 919.843.5858 sri@unc.edu
R. Michael Hoefges Associate professor 919.843.0971 mhoefges@email.unc.edu Anne Johnston Professor and associate dean for graduate studies 919.962.4286 amjohnst@email.unc.edu
Thomas Linden Glaxo Wellcome Distinguished Professor of Medical Journalism 919.962.4078 linden@unc.edu Trevy McDonald Assistant professor 919.962.0547 trevy@email.unc.edu
Val Lauder Lecturer 919.843.8297 vlauder@email.unc.edu Jock Lauterer Lecturer and director, Carolina Community Media Project 919.962.6421 jock@email.unc.edu
Dana McMahan Assistant professor 919.843.5851 dmcmahan@email.unc.edu Paul O’Connor Lecturer ocolumn@mindspring.com
sponsored by N.C. Central University and the Black College Communication Association in 2009 in Durham, N.C. • The school participated in the U.S. State Department’s Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists. In October 2009, the J-school conducted five days of training to 15 European journalists on the rights and responsibilities of a free press in a democracy.
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• A J-school professor who is also an awardwinning reporter wrote a book – “A Home on the Field” – that focuses on immigration issues in North Carolina. The book was selected as the summer reading book for UNC’s fall 2009 first-year student class. • More than nine faculty and staff lectured and participated in the 11th Annual HBCU Student News Media Conference and Job Fair
• Students in the school’s business journalism program helped launch the Carolina del Norte project by reporting on the economic impact of the growing Latino population in North Carolina. The stories covered topics ranging from how Latino ownership of farms in the state is increasing to the impact of the sub-prime mortgage crisis on the state’s Hispanic population. • As part of the Conference on Successful Programs in Higher Education Diversity held at Louisiana State University, two faculty members co-authored a chapter titled, “Faculty Diversity Must Be the Culture of the Campus.”
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equipment grant and partnerships with the journalism program at N.C. Central University, Durham high schools and inner-city revitalization officials laid the groundwork for the project.
• Many of the school’s courses carry a strong diversity component, including the “Black Press and United States History,” “Diversity and Communication,” “Gender and Communication” and “Latino Media Studies.”
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• Spanish classes were made available to school faculty and staff to support diversity education and training.
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Cathy Packer Professor and director, Center for Media Law and Policy 919.962.4077 clpacker@email.unc.edu Dan Riffe Richard Cole Eminent Professor 919.962.4082 driffe@email.unc.edu
Graham becomes UNC president in 1913. Following his dictate that the University and newspapers have an obligation to serve the public interest, Richard Hurt Thornton (above) conducts the first Newspaper Institute for newspaper people in the state – in conjunction with the N.C. Press Association – in 1916.
Chris Roush Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Scholar in Business Journalism and director, Carolina Business News Initiative and M.A. program 919.962.4092 croush@email.unc.edu Laura Ruel Assistant professor 919.962.4076 lruel@email.unc.edu Donald Shaw Kenan Professor 919.962.4087 cardinal@email.unc.edu Janas Sinclair Assistant professor 919.843.5638 sinclair@unc.edu
Dulcie Straughan Professor and senior associate dean 919.962.9003 dulcie@email.unc.edu John Sweeney Distinguished Professor in Sports Communication 919.962.4074 jsweeney@email.unc.edu Ryan Thornburg Assistant professor 919.962.4080 ryan.thornburg@unc.edu Leroy Towns Professor of the practice of journalism and research fellow, Program on Public Life 919.843.5388 dltowns@email.unc.edu C.A. Tuggle Professor 919.962.5694 catuggle@unc.edu Lucila Vargas Professor 919.962.2366 lcvargas@email.unc.edu
Don Wittekind Assistant professor 919.843.5582 donw@email.unc.edu Jan J. Yopp Walter Spearman Professor and dean, Summer School 919.962.4083 jan_yopp@unc.edu Xinshu Zhao Professor zhao@email.unc.edu Emeriti John B. Adams Harry Amana Rich Beckman Tom Bowers A. Richard Elam Jr. Robert Lauterborn Raleigh C. Mann Philip Meyer James J. Mullen Carol Reuss Stuart Wilson Sechriest Richard Simpson Chuck Stone
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Chad A. Stevens Assistant professor 919.962.0633 chadstevens@unc.edu
Ruth Walden James Howard and Hallie McLean Parker Distinguished Professor 919.962.4088 walden@email.unc.edu
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Faculty Retirement Professor Richard Simpson retired after a long Carolina career that began in the Department of Radio, Television and Motion Pictures and ended in 2009 at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. During his time at Carolina, Simpson taught media production classes and was a production designer and manager for Carolina Week, the school’s award-winning student-run news program. He was honored with several International Television Association Reel of Excellence Awards. He was a judge and electronic media director and chairman for the Annual National Head-
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liner Awards, and a judge for the Texas Film Commission, the N.C. Association of Broadcasters, International Television Association, and the City of Raleigh (N.C.) Arts Commission. In 2006, Simpson won the David Brinkley Teaching Excellence Award.
Lecturers Paul Bonner Steve Bouser Linda Brinson Chris Carmichael Brian Carroll Winston Cavin Timothy Crothers
Bruce Curran Kelly Davis Serena Fenton Valerie Fields Charles Floyd Bryan Gilmer Laura Herbst
Adam Hochberg Gary Kayye James King Chris Kirkman Donald Lofland Vanessa McVay Michael Mills
Scott Misner Dina Niblock Anthony Rocco Elizabeth Spainhour Genie Tyburski Jonathan Wallace Michael Yopp
Faculty Honors and Awards Andy Bechtel, assistant professor Elected to the Executive Committee of the American Copy Editors Society Lois Boynton, associate professor Received the N.C. Distinguished Service Award for Women, presented by the Epsilon Beta Chapter of Chi Omega sorority Jane Brown, James L. Knight Professor Awarded a two-year Templeton Foundation grant for $232,000 to study young people’s online self-disclosure beginning June 2009 Napoleon Byars, assistant professor David Brinkley Teaching Excellence Award Named a winner of 2009 Innovative Outreach to Scholastic Journalism award
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Alberto Cairo, assistant professor Won two silver medals from the Malofiej Infographics Summit in Pamplona, Spain
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Pat Davison, associate professor In partnership with WashingtonPost.com, led photojournalism students covering the presidential inauguration in January 2009 Elizabeth Dougall, associate professor Paper on health communication selected as one of six designated the “best of Miami” at the Miami Public Relations Research Conference
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Frank Fee, associate professor Awarded a 2009 Joseph McKerns Research Grant Award from the American Journalism Historians Association for his project “Honor to Whom Honor Is Due: Frederick Douglass, Julia Griffiths and the Trans-Atlantic Fight Against Slavery”
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Book, “A Home on the Field,” selected for the summer reading program at UNC and Methodist University in Fayetteville, N.C.
Val Lauder, lecturer Honored as “Town Treasure” by the Chapel Hill Historical Society
Photo courtesy of Catherine Carter
Tom Linden, Glaxo Wellcome Distinguished Professor of Medical Journalism Documentary “Environmental Heroes” named a finalist in the Carrboro Film Festival Chris Roush, Hussman Distinguished Scholar in Business Journalism Edward Vick Prize for Innovation in Teaching Donald Shaw, Kenan Professor
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Delivered the keynote address at the 2009 Rocky Mountain Communication Association Conference (RMCAC) at the University of Wyoming Janas Sinclair, assistant professor Named a Page Legacy Scholar by the Arthur W. Page Center Chad A. Stevens, assistant professor Won $15,000 New York Film Grant to support his work in photography and multimedia
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Elected to the American Journalism Historians Association board
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Won the Baskett-Mosse Award for research on sex-trafficking
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Awarded a 2009 Joseph McKerns Research Grant Award research grant from the American Journalism Historians Association for her project “Mom-in- Chief: Mass Media, the First Lady and the Maternal Role” Elected secretary/recorder for the Commission on the Status of Women at AEJMC Michael Hoefges, associate professor Selected to edit the spring 2010 issue of the Journal of Interactive Advertising published by the American Academy of Advertising Heidi Hennink-Kaminski, assistant professor Awarded a Ueltschi Grant for Service-Learning Course Development
Won a 2010 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award as producer of “Intended Consequences” with MediaStorm and Jonathan Torgovnik Ryan Thornburg, assistant professor Received a Junior Faculty Development Award from the University to develop and update a “live” textbook and training Web site about online journalism Don Wittekind, assistant professor Received a 2009 President’s Award from the Society for News Design
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Enrollment Snapshot, Fall 2009 Total enrollment: 957 Undergraduates: 828 Juniors 384 Under new curriculum Advertising/Public Relations 192 Advertising 74 Public Relations 110 Strategic Communication 8 Journalism 192 Electronic Communication 45 Editing and Graphic Design 37 Multimedia 27 Photojournalism 26 Reporting 57 Seniors Advertising 96 Electronic Communication 54 News-Editorial 91 Public Relations 137 Visual Communication 66 Multimedia 25 Graphics 17 Photo 24
Experiencing setbacks: Journalism courses were canceled in the wake of World War I, which the U.S. entered in April 1917. Because of the war, students and faculty alike leave Chapel Hill to fight, and military exercises on campus are common.
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Graduate students: Master’s 55 Mass Communication 10 Professional 45 Doctoral 39
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Distance education: Certificate in Technology and Communication 37
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Student Honors Second Place, Sports Feature
Hearst Journalism Awards
Honorable Mention, Feature Picture Story
Third Place, National Photojournalism Championship Second Place, Photojournalism, News & Sports
N.C. Press Photographers Association Pictures of the Year Contest Student photographer of the year First Place, Multimedia Second Place, Spot News Third Place, Spot News Honorable Mention, Feature
NPPA Monthly Multimedia Competition Third Place, Individual Video, “They Stole So Much More”
64th College Photographer of the Year Bronze, Spot News Award of Excellence, Portfolio
Catherine Cannon College Television Awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences First Place Collegiate Emmy
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64th College Photographer of the Year
Chris Carmichael
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63rd College Photographer of the Year The Spanish influenza epidemic also halts journalism courses. More than half of the enrolled students on campus contract the flu. Edward Kidder Graham dies of influenza.
Gold, Individual Multimedia Story or Essay Gold, Multimedia Project
Award of Excellence, Multimedia Project
Award of Excellence, Multimedia Project
64th College Photographer of the Year Gold, Multimedia Project
Lauren Cowart
Bronze, Multimedia Project
Hearst Journalism Awards
Award of Excellence, Multimedia Project
Fourth Place, Photojournalism, Picture Story/Series
N.C. Press Photographers Association Pictures of the Year Contest
63rd College Photographer of the Year Award of Excellence, Sports Feature
Honorable Mention, News Picture Story
Award of Excellence, Individual Still Image/Audio Story or Essay
NPPA Best of Photojournalism 2009 First Place, News Audio Slideshow, “Under One Roof”
NPPA Monthly Multimedia Competition First Place, Team Video, “Debating Coal’s Future” Second Place, Team Video, “Battle for the Mountains”
Phil Daquila NPPA Monthly Multimedia Competition Second Place, Team Video, “Moving to Higher Ground”
Jessey Dearing
Jennifer Carpenter
N.C. Press Photographers Association Pictures of the Year Contest
Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards First Place, regional competition, Television Feature Photography, “Golden Olympics” Finalist, national competition, Television Feature Photography, “Golden Olympics”
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Third Place, Feature Picture Story
Andrew Dunn UWIRE 100 list of top college journalists
Elizabeth Edmonds National Broadcasting Society Undergraduate Student Electronic Media Competition
UWIRE 100 list of top college journalists
First Place, Magazine Program (Audio)
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Nacho Corbella NPPA Monthly Multimedia Competition First Place, Individual Video, “Faces of the Crisis”
Zach Ferriola-Bruckenstein 64th College Photographer of the Year
Second Place, Individual Video, “Looking at the Bright Side”
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First Place, Individual Video, “Roping the Wind in Texas” Third Place, Team Video, “Voices of Roscoe”
Gold, Multimedia Project
Erin Franklin Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards
First Place, Team Video, “A Father’s Sacrifice”
Second Place, regional competition, Television General News Reporting, “Business safety”
Selket Guzman 64th College Photographer of the Year Award of Excellence, Multimedia Project
NPPA Monthly Multimedia Competition Second Place, Individual Video, “My Elephant, My Brother”
Chris Carmichael
Nacho Corbella
Phil Daquila
Kaitlin Hall Triangle Association of Black Journalists Recipient of a $500 TABJ scholarship
Robin Hilmantel Associated Collegiate Press Individual Awards Honorable Mention, Feature Story, Blue & White magazine
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Eileen Mignoni
Kat Keene Hogue NPPA Best of Photojournalism Honorable Mention, In Depth Video News Photography, “An American Spirit”
Rob Ikoku Associated Collegiate Press Photo Excellence Awards Honorable Mention, Sports Picture
Ryan Jones N.C. Press Photographers Association Pictures of the Year Contest
First Place, regional competition, Television Sports Photography, “Ping Pong Phenom” Second Place, regional competition, Radio Sports Reporting, “Football Drought” Finalist, national competition, Television Sports Reporting, “Ping Pong Phenom” Finalist, national competition, Television Sports Photography, “Ping Pong Phenom”
National Broadcasting Society Undergraduate Student Electronic Media Competition First Place, Sports Segment (Video)
Honorable Mention, Multimedia
Elizabeth Ladzinski
Second Place, Illustration
64th College Photographer of the Year
NPPA Best of Photojournalism Second Place, Feature Audio Slideshow, “He Wouldn’t Leave”
Jason Kahn 2008 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards First Place, regional competition, Television Sports Reporting, “Ping Pong Phenom”
Silver, Pictorial
Laura Marcinek Society of American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business contest First Place, student publication
Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism Recipient of $4,000 business journalism scholarship
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Third Place, Pictorial Honorable Mention, Feature Picture Story
Eileen Mignoni NPPA Monthly Multimedia Competition First Place, Individual Audio Slideshow, “Phone Calls from Papi” First Place, Multimedia Project, “Face Deportation”
Sherrie Marchant Donecker
First Place, Individual Video, “The Lures of the Mountains”
Meredith Brooke Karr
First Place, Team Video, “Down the Lines”
Mallory Kristen Plaks
First Place, Team Video, “A Father’s Sacrifice”
Amy Beatrice Holter
Jesse Clark Baumgartner
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64th College Photographer of the Year Award of Excellence, Multimedia Project Gold, Multimedia Project
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Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest college honorary society, inducted new members in November 2009. Less than 1 percent of all college students qualify to be members. Five May 2009 J-school graduates were honored.
N.C. Press Photographers Association Pictures of the Year Contest
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Abby Metty
Lisa Pepin 64th College Photographer of the Year Award of Excellence, Feature
Mason Phillips Associated Collegiate Press Cartooning Awards Emily Motley
Sara Peach
Autumn Shafer
Courtney Potter
Emily Motley PR Week Student of the Year competition Finalist
Monique Newton UWIRE 100 list of top college journalists
Nicole Norfleet Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards First Place, regional competition, Feature Writing, “Nicholas Shanks refused to fail”
Emma Patti N.C. Press Photographers Association Pictures of the Year Contest Honorable Mention, Multimedia
Sara Peach 64th College Photographer of the Year
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Award of Excellence, Multimedia Project
NPPA Monthly Multimedia Competition First Place, Team Video, “Debating Coal’s Future” Second Place, Team Video, “Battle for the Mountains”
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Third Place, Editorial Cartoon
Kappa Tau Alpha Kappa Tau Alpha is a collegiate honor society that recognizes academic excellence and promotes scholarship in journalism and mass communication.
63rd College Photographer of the Year Bronze, Individual Still Image/Audio Story or Essay
64th College Photographer of the Year Silver, International Picture Story
Dave Remund Named a Page Legacy Scholar by the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication
Adam Rhew Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards Third Place, regional competition, Television Breaking News Reporting, “Eve Carson murdered”
Sam Rosenthal Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards Finalist, national competition, Sports Column Writing First Place, regional competition, Sports Column Writing Third Place, regional competition, Online Sports Reporting, “UNC fans remember incident, eager for Duke’s return”
Catarina Saraiva Society of American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business contest First Place, professional publication
Autumn Shafer Kelley Ann Giles
Sherrie Donecker
Robyn Mitchell
Meghan Cooke
Molly Thebes
Monique Newton
Presented at the Centers for Disease Control’s National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media
Kelly Esposito
Katherine Rumbaugh
Andrew Stiles
Stuart West
Meredith Karr
Hearst Journalism Awards
Rebecca Hilton
Caroline Herion
Katie Mock
Courtney Woo
Jillian Nadell
Third Place, Writing, Editorials
Walter Storholt
Bart Wojdynski
National Broadcasting Society Undergraduate Student Electronic Media Competition
Top three student paper in the Journalism Studies division at the 2009 International Communication Association conference
First Place, Sports Segment (Audio)
Carly Swain College Television Awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences First Place Collegiate Emmy
Chancellor’s Awards at Carolina The Ernest H. Abernethy Prize in Student Publication Work
Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards First Place, regional competition, Television General News Reporting, “Dead man walking” series Winner, national competition, Television General News Reporting, “Dead man walking” series
Courtney Woo NPPA Monthly Multimedia Competition First Place, Team Video, “Down the Lines”
Presented at the Centers for Disease Control’s National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media
Erica Yamauchi Awarded the 2009 Susanne A. Roschwalb Grant for International Study and Research, presented by the AEJMC Public Relations Division
Hearst Journalism Awards Second Place, Broadcast News, Television Features
Jenny Tenney 63rd College Photographer of the Year Award of Excellence, Individual Still Image/Audio Story or Essay
Carly Swain
N.C. Press Photographers Association Pictures of the Year Contest Second Place, Multimedia
Bethany Tuggle Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards WHO
Third Place, regional competition, Television Feature Photography, “Bouncing Bulldogs” Third Place, regional competition, Television Feature, “Bouncing Bulldogs”
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Monica Ulmanu
Brooke Weberling
Courtney Woo
Erica Yamauchi
Third Place, Team Video, “Voices of Roscoe”
64th College Photographer of the Year Bronze, Multimedia Project
Brooke Weberling Top three student paper in the Mass Communication division at the 2009 International Communication Association conference Top paper award in the Mass Communication and Society Division at the AEJMC convention (co-authors professor Dan Riffe and Ohio University doctoral student Jennette Lovejoy)
Bart Wojdynski
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Group/School Awards UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication Hearst Foundation Journalism Awards Fifth Place, Overall Intercollegiate Competition Third Place, Intercollegiate Photojournalism Competition Third Place, Intercollegiate Broadcast News Competition
Journalism courses return: Clarence Addison Hibbard revives the journalism program. Three courses are offered, including “News Writing,” “News Editing” and “Feature Stories.” The Tar Heel predicts more journalism courses on the horizon and potentially a journalism department.
Advertising Copy and Communication (JOMC 271) students Yellow Pages Advertising Challenge
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First Place, News or Feature Multimedia Package, “Cape Fear to Down Here”
AEJMC Best of the Web competition First Place, journalism (andamanrising.org) First Place, department (carolinaphotojournalism.org)
Horizon Interactive Awards Best of Category, College and University, “Cape Fear to Down Here” Gold Medal, College and University, “Andaman Rising” Gold Medal, Blog, Carolina Photojournalism, carolinaphotojournalism.org
Special Recognition (Cassandra Clark, Adam Hinson and Kelly McLean)
Silver Medal, College and University, “Nuevas Fronteras: Stories of the Latino Experience in North Carolina”
National Student Advertising Competition, Third District Second Place, Commendation for “Best Interactive” (Lauren Ahlschlager, Andria Crook, Meredith Engelen, Lea Erculiani, Blake Ervin, Katie Macon (M.A.), Alyssa Madden, Jonathan Main, Emilie Moseley, Kate Perez, Allie Rosenbaum, Amy Rozet, Jonathan Sekerak, Nick Sotolongo, Catherine Stover, Chris Swaim, Jenna Tennace, Liz Ward and Emily Widle)
Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards
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NPPA Best of Photojournalism
Honorable Mention (Paula Buzzi, Cody Pate and Meredith Robinson)
Carolina Connection
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Finalist, national competition, Radio Newscast First Place, regional competition, Radio Newscast Third Place, regional competition, Radio Feature, “WXYC”
National Broadcasting Society Undergraduate Student Electronic Media Competition First Place, News Package (Audio)
64th College Photographer of the Year Gold, Large Group Multimedia Project, “Powering a Nation” Silver, Large Group Multimedia Project, “Hardship and Hope” Bronze, Large Group Multimedia Project, “Being Asheville” Award of Excellence, Large Group Multimedia Project, “Living Galapagos”
Carolina Week Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards First Place, regional competition, Television Newscast
UNC News21 NPPA Monthly Multimedia Competition Second Place, Multimedia Project, “Powering a Nation”
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Scholarship and Award Recipients 2009 Awards John B. Adams Award for Excellence in Mass Communication Law Erin Coyle Peggy Allen Community Journalism Scholarship Heather Mandelkehr AT&T Business Journalism Internship Award Kayla Carrick Jim Batten Community Newspaper Internship Kellen Moore Rich Beckman Documentary Photojournalism Award Courtney Potter
Kathryn M. Cronin Scholarship in Medical Journalism Niveditha Ravi
Carol Reuss Award (Graduate) Courtney Woo
Jim D’Aleo Award Sara Peach
Carol Reuss Award (Undergraduate) Meredith Cook
John L. Greene Award Sara Moore
Eugene L. Roberts Prize Meagan Racey
Fred Hutchison Scholar Dioni Wise
Minnie S. and Eli A. Rubinstein Research Award Erin Coyle, Justin Martin, Hai Tran, Amy Shirong Lu
Edward Jackson International Award Ariel Zirulnick Peter Lars Jacobson Award in Medical Journalism Prashant Nair
Steamboat Foundation Scholarship and Internship Alex Kowalski Jim and Pat Thacker Sports Communication Internship Courtney Stern
Furman Bisher Medal Sara Moore
Larry and Carolyn Keith Awards in Sports Journalism Jesse Baumgartner, Emma Patti
Peggy Blanchard Dissertation Support Award Scott Dunn
Charles Kuralt Fellowship in International Broadcasting MacKenzie Babb
Canady International Scholarship Jaime Zea
Norval Neil Luxon Prize for Scholarship to the Junior with the Highest GPA Lauren Taber
Earl Wynn Broadcast Award Jason Kahn
Norval Neil Luxon Prize for Scholarship to the Graduating Senior with the Highest GPA Erica Satten
Advertising Women of New York Scholarship Sabrina Wood
Scholarships
Floyd Alford Jr. Scholarship Lindsay Britt Phillip Alston Scholarship Reiley Wooten Tom Bowers Scholarship Christian Yoder
Capstrat Internship and Scholarship Jasmin Jones
N.C. Psychoanalytic Foundation Medical Journalism Award Prashant Nair
Diane Harvey Bradley Scholarship Alyxandra Press
Robin Clark Experience Abbey Caldwell
Robert Pittman Scholarship and Internship Nicole Norfleet
Rick Brewer Scholarship Andrew Hartnett
William Francis Clingman Jr. Ethics Award Dave Remund, Dean Mundy, Michael Fuhlhage
Pfizer Minority Medical Journalism Scholarship Niveditha Ravi
Michael Bumgardner Scholarship Jessey Dearing
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Jasmin Jones
Joseph L. Morrison Award for Excellence in Journalism History Michael Fuhlhage
Tom Wicker Scholarship Chris Saunders
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Maxwell Graduate Scholarship in Medical Journalism Niveditha Ravi
M.S. Van Hecke Award Andrew Dunn, Laura Marcinek
Leading the News Bureau: Louis Graves was appointed professor of journalism in the Department of English, the first to hold this title, and head of the University’s News Bureau. His News Bureau duties eventually force him to cancel journalism courses, leading to complaints in the Tar Heel. He resigned in 1924 to devote all of his time to his newspaper, the Chapel Hill Weekly.
John Albert Campbell III Scholarship Anna Kim Capital Cities/ABC Scholarship Jennifer Brandt, Emily Hawkes, Bethany Tuggle Carolinas Healthcare P.R. and Marketing Scholarship Janet Hatherly Ardis Cohoon Scholarship Mehgan McMillan Louis M. Connor Jr. Scholarship Lauren Macaione, Ellen Regan
James Davis Scholarship Meghan Prichard Robert Winchester Dodson Scholarship Elizabeth Schonig
Mary Kathryn Forbes Scholarship Megan Carriker Victoria M. Gardner Scholarship Gabrielle Jones
Reese Felts Scholarship Elizabeth Lamb
Stephen Gates Scholarship Alystia Moore
Westy Fenhagen Scholarship Lisa Andrukonis
L.C. Gifford Distinguished Journalism Scholarship Leah Hughes, Donata Marcantonio
Ameel J. Fisher Scholarship Abby Farson, Caitlin Howell, Julianne Neher, Mary Catherine Penn
John W. Harden Scholarship Anna Fulton
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Remund named Page Legacy Scholar
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The Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication selected second-year doctoral student Dave Remund as a Page Legacy Scholar for the 2009–2010 academic year. The national organization awarded Remund $2,000 in grant funds to continue research on Page’s work editing “The World’s Work” magazine from 1913–1927 and his overall influence in the fields of corporate communications and corporate citizenship. “The center has chosen a deserving scholar for this award,” assistant professor Barbara Friedman said. “David’s project is a substantive contribution to public relations and magazine history and more specifically, to further understanding of the historical role of Arthur Page.” Page was the first public relations professional to serve as an officer and director of a major corporation, AT&T. He established a series of concepts encouraging ethics and integrity in the profession, known as the “Page principles,” which serve as a model for public relations practitioners to this day. “In the first 20 years of my
career in public relations, I faced countless ethical challenges and decisions,” Remund said. “I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to serve the Arthur W. Page Center and the larger academic and professional communities with this project.” In his research, Remund will expand upon a paper begun last spring in Friedman’s course, “Readings in Mass Communication History.” His research goal is to evaluate “how, and the degree to which Page’s editorial work stressed the need for corporate social responsibility.” He believes that Page’s reputation as a corporate social responsibility advocate stemmed from prior experiences at “The World’s Work.” Remund’s general research focuses on ethics and leadership in public relations. He entered the doctoral program after working in communications-related roles at organizations such as Innova Ideas & Services, Bank of America, The Principal Financial Group and Wells Fargo. He received his undergraduate degree in journalism and his master’s in communication leader-
ship from Drake University, and also earned the Accredited in Public Relations designation from the Public Relations Society of America. In addition to expounding on Page’s work, Remund believes his current project pays homage to his late father who, like Page, managed a phone company and maintained a constant commitment to the greater community. “Dad would have loved this project as much as I do,” Remund said. “In some small way, I believe that being a Legacy Scholar will honor the influence Dad’s life has had on my career and my conviction for the ethical practice of public relations.” – By Alli Soule second-year master’s student
Charles Hauser Scholarship Sarah Frier Paul Green Houston Scholarship John Dougherty James Hurley III Bicentennial Merit Scholarship Victoria Hartz Gene Jackson Scholarship Jeannine O’Brian Glenn Keever Scholarship Annie Ellis Knight Foundation Distinguished Journalism Scholarship Alex Kowalski, Rachel Scall Suzanna Kuralt Fund Scholarship Emily Yount Harvey Laffoon Scholarship Erin Locker Raleigh Mann Scholarship Anna Winker Molly McKay Scholarship Adam Salloum
C.A. “Pete” McKnight Scholarship Olivia Tilson Edward Heywood Megson Scholarship Madison Hipp
Hal Tanner Sr. Scholarship Jennifer Scholl
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Tucker Family Scholarship Ayana Allen
Marjorie Usher Ragan Scholarship Quincy Sharpe Mills Scholarship Kathleen Doll Brittany Bellamy, Elisa David Jordan Whichard II Greenwood, Jasmin Jones, Scholarship Allen Mask, Luis Torres Katie-Leigh Lubinsky N.C. Press Assoc./N.C. Press David Julian Whichard Services Scholarship Scholarship Kara Jenkins Heather Mandelkehr, Emily Erwin Potts Scholarship Stephenson Chiara Austin Clarence E. & Jane P. Whitefield Peter D. Pruden & Phyllis H. Scholarship Pruden Scholarship Meagan Racey Archer Lyle WTVD Endowment Scholarship Bob Quincy Scholarship Kaitlin Hall Matthew Lynley Michael John Sauer Scholarship Alex Deegan
The Department of Journalism: The journalism program became the Department of Journalism with Gerald W. Johnson, an editorial writer for the Greensboro Daily News, as its first chairman and only faculty member. The department had a sixcourse curriculum and students could earn a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism degree.
A.C. Snow Scholarship Pressley Baird
Student Organizations
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Carolina Association of Black Journalists This organization is open to any student in the school or at the University. Its primary purpose is to support and encourage careers for minority students and to sensitize media coverage and employment practices toward minorities. It is recognized as a UNC student organization, and because its membership is predominantly black, it is affiliated with the National Association of Black Journalists. The chapter
Global Media Student Association The Global Media Student Association is an organization for the school’s students interested in international media. GMSA aims to enhance the connections between both incoming and present international students as well as between international and American students in the school. This includes helping incoming international students settle in the area, facilitating interaction among international students, and raising the level of interest and awareness of international issues within the school. Faculty adviser: Cathy Packer
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Advertising Club The Advertising Club is an academic chapter affiliated with the American Advertising Federation (AAF). Regular meetings are held with national and local advertising professionals as guest speakers. The club participates in the AAF national student advertising competition. Faculty adviser: Joe Bob Hester www.unc.edu/adclub
coordinates attendance at job fairs throughout the Southeast and assists in diversity recruitment to the University. The organization has been named national NABJ student chapter of the year three times. Faculty advisers: Queenie Byars and Jan Yopp www.unc.edu/student/orgs/cabj
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Coffin takes the helm: The department moved to Alumni Building. Johnson resigns, and O.J. “Skipper” Coffin, a 1909 UNC graduate, editor of the Raleigh Times and an iconoclast who would become a legend of Carolina journalism, chaired the department.
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Graduate Student Association The Graduate Student Association was established in 1995. The association was founded as a social, academic and pre-professional organization serving graduate students in the school. President: Dean Mundy, Ph.D. candidate www.ibiblio.org/jschool/gsa Public Relations Student Society of America The Public Relations Student Society of America is affiliated with the Public Relations Society of America, the world’s largest organization of public relations professionals. Students interact with local professionals at monthly PRSSA meetings and at meetings of the PRSA chapter in Raleigh. Students also attend the annual daylong professional development conference sponsored by North Carolina’s three PRSA chapters and other professional associations. Faculty adviser: Napoleon Byars Society of Professional Journalists The campus chapter of the national Society of Professional Journalists meets monthly for sessions with professionals and other specialized programs. Student membership may be transferred to professional chapters upon graduation. Each year the chapter sponsors a seminar on how to apply for a job. The student chapter is associated with professional chapters on regional and national levels, and students are encouraged to attend annual meetings at both levels. Faculty adviser: Paul Cuadros National Press Photographers Association Student Group The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) is the nation’s largest trade organization for photojournalists. Carolina’s NPPA student group helps organize PhotoNight, a monthly speaker series, and The 37th Frame, an annual exhibition of photographs produced by the school’s visual communication students. The NPPA student group also organizes social outings and field trips to conferences. Faculty adviser: Pat Davison
Society for News Design The student chapter of the Society for News Design was organized to provide students with greater exposure to graphic design and a direct link with professional publication designers. The chapter sponsors workshops, seminars and portfolio reviews; takes field trips; brings in visiting professionals; and holds social events. Faculty adviser: Laura Ruel
Commencement Lists December 2008 Ph.D.
Peter Casella Cong Li
Certificate
Betty J. Dishman Jennifer L. Graham Kirk Allen Hathaway Ann Michelle Johnson Brian Charles Rund Britta C. Waller
B.A.
Ann Ansley Allison Baker Chase Beck Ashley Christian Michelle Cipullo Andrew Ryan Cosgrove Nikissia Craig Andrew Dally Meghan Davis Parin Desai Franzannie Guiteau Nicholas Hill Margret Hutaff Nora Jorgensen Andrew Kenney Courtney Locus Holly Manning Lindsey Marck Emilea McLean Caitlin Meaney Monique Meertens Michelle Mendonça Robert Merritt Courtney Miller Seth Moser-Katz Gwynne Murphy Michael Murray Nathan Neufang Stephanie Parks Rachel Pointer Jordan Popalis Jonathan Pourzal Erika Rockett Amanda Rodrigues-Smith
Graham Russell Joseph Schwartz Brittany Spencer Keely Stockett Erin Summers Jennifer Tenney Lauren Turner Laura Walters Alexander Whitfield
May 2009 Ph.D.
Ying Du Tara Kachgal Jennifer Kowalewski Fatimah S. Salleh Derigan A. Silver Jessica Smith Jusheng Yu
M.A.
Todd Brantley Chris Carmichael Julia Crouse Phillip Daquila Tiffany Devereux Erik Holmes Samuel Middleton Jr. Eileen Mignoni Melissa Moser Prashant Nair Patrick O’Donnell Joseph Recomendes Tiffany White Courtney Woo
Certificate
Marcie Barnes Richard Barron Carl Burton Jennifer Elliott Andria Krewson Danny Lineberry Alexandra Molaire Karen Rhodes Raphael Seth Bailey Smith
B.A.
Kaley Krause Gillian Kulman Matthew Kusel Kelsey Kustener Kyle Lang Leigh Ellen Laster Samuel Lau Jennifer Layton Jonathan Lesica Nicole L’Esperance Sarah LeTrent Sharon Levine Kathryn Lewis Martha Little Charissa Lloyd Christine Mabes Megan Madaris Sapna Maheshwari Alexandra Mansbach
Jennifer Mullen Alisha Mullin Michael Murray Adria Naber Jillian Nadell Lindsey Naylor Deborah Neffa* Preston Neill Monique Newton Stephanie Nobles Stephen Norris Leonore O’Brien Rachael Oehring Ambrosia Paglen Jaclyn Pardini* Lucia Parker* Emma Patti Lindsey Paytes Meredith Peck
Shaina Mardinly Allison Massiello Andrea Matt Allison Maupin Matthias McCall Amy McClellon Virginia McIlwain* Sean McKeithan Gilbert McLemore III Caroline McMillan Allison McNeill Amanda McPherson Rachel McPherson Taylor Meadows Matthew Meadows Beth Mechum Abigail Metty Allison Miller Philip Mitchell Jr. Robyn Mitchell Marjorie Mobley Katie Mock* Amelia Moody Sara Moore Emily Motley
Katherine Perez Robert Perez Kate Perry Heather Piercy Mallory Plaks Thomas Pomer Krista Pool Elizabeth Portanova Logan Price Lauren Raynor Joshua Reavis Katie Reich William Reid Elizabeth Rhine Tyler Riley Alexa Robinson Jennifer Robinson Kafi Robinson Samuel Rosenthal Amy Rozet Elizabeth Ruiz Dominic Ruiz-Esparza Katherine Rumbaugh Erin Sagester Meghan Sanborn
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Rachel English Lea Erculiani Robert Ervin Kelly Esposito Julia Fariss Victoria Felle Zachary FerriolaBruckenstein Megan Finger Bridger Floyd Alyssa Francona Sarah Frazier Christopher Gallo Benjamin George Christopher Gerding Walter Gerringer Jessica Gibson Erin Gifford Kelly Giles Catherine Glenn Shanna Goff Meredith Golden Jane Goodson Carolyn Gray Edward Greene IV Lauren Haley Katherine Hanes McKinsey Harris Caitlin Harrison William Harrison Angela Henderson Caroline Herion Alexander Herrington Nathan Hewitt John Hibbits Joanna Hill Kristin Hill Tamara Hill Robin Hilmantel Rebecca Hilton Caroline Holcomb Amy Holter Brittany Houston Jennifer Howdy William Hyatt Corey Inscoe Kathleen Isley Andrew Ives Brittany Jackson Mary Jamison Abby Jeffers Amanda Johnson Laura Jones Kaitlyn Jordan Nathaniel Jordan Jason Kahn Uttara Kale Stephanie Kane Meredith Karr Jessica Kearns Sara Kelleher Tony Kim Nika Kineva Marianna King Margaret Kiselick Nikida Koraly
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Lauren Ahlschlager Jessica Allen Jessica Anderson Wilson Andrews Kathryn Ardizzone Elisabeth Arriero Lindsay Ash Graham Ashe Karen Avent Stacey Axelrod Mary Ayers Shaina Ayers MacKenzie Babb* Benjamin Baden Lauren Bailey Jordan Ashley Baker Susie Baker Shanaye Barber Stefanie Barish Elizabeth Barrett Jesse Baumgartner Elizabeth Beavers Chase Beck Meredith Bell Caroline Bennett David Berngartt Jacqueline Bradley Jonathan Bradley Brendan Brown Robert Brown Elizabeth Buter Josephine Butler Nicholas Butler Lesley Bynum Laura Byron Susan Cadrecha Colin Campbell Jennifer Carpenter Kayla Carrick Amber Chislett Meghan Cooke* Mary Lou Craven Andria Crook Phillip Crook Kori Crosson Kellie Cutrer Lauryn D’Angelo Shannon David Kelly Davies Caroline Davis Courtney Dean Liles Demmink Rebecca Denison Sherrie Donecker Katherine Dow Amelia Druckenbrod Kara Duffle Ryan Dunham Casey Dunlevie Elizabeth Edmonds Brittany Edney Ashley Elliott Hunter Ellis David Ely Penn Ely
Ana Saraiva Julie Sass Ashley Sauls Matthew Schneider Hilary Schronce Gordon Schuit Joseph Schwartz Sarah Scott Katherine Searcy Ru-Yuan Sha Thomas Shalley III Elyssa Sharp Hannah Sharpe Morgan Siem William Singletary Cassidy Smith
Melissa Smrekar Daniel Stainkamp Catherine Steddum Andrew Stiles Walter Storholt Lindsey Stutzman Katherine Sullivan Christina Swaim Carly Swain Persis Swift Alisha Taber Jenna Tenace Molly Thebes McKenzie Thompson Jordan Timpy Matthew Tomsic
Sergio Tovar Caroline Troullis Alexander Trowbridge Kevin Turner Natalie Turner Roxanne Turpen Rachel Ullrich Rachel Umstead Sean Umstead Gregorio Urbina Emily Van Tassel Hillary Vandewart Alexander Ventre Danielle Verrilli Cristina Villasmil Alyson Walker Catherine Walker Katheryn Wall Elizabeth Ward Sallie Watkins Lindsey Weaver Nacarla Webb Stacy Wells Jennifer Westfall Susan White Sara Wilfley Ashley Wilkinson Tyler Williams Lenise Willis Kristin Wilson Shannon Wilson Erin Wiltgen Katie Winders
Meghan Woods Adam Wright Ashley Yakopec* Amanda Younger Johanna Yueh Lorelle Yuen Kevin Zidron
August 2009 Ph.D.
Cheryl Bishop Jennifer Kowalewski Shirong Lu Justin Martin
M.A.
Loubna Aljoura Jose Corbella Sara Peach Nataliya Rostovtseva Elizabeth Templin
B.A.
Kelsey Atkins Shanae Auguste Anna Bays Courtney Beal Kathryn Blackmar Jesse Burkhart Lauren Cowart Mary Craven Kevin Danko Eric Ellington
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Carolina at the Conventions
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The school’s faculty and students make strong showings every year at regional and national conventions of journalism and mass communication educators. Highlights from the past year include: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Convention The school played a significant role in the 2009 AEJMC convention with 22 graduate students and nine faculty involved in 43 papers. AEJMC held its annual convention in Boston Aug. 5–8. During the convention, 861 papers were presented and 365 sessions were held for the 2,435 attendees. The theme was transformation in the journalism and communication disciplines and industries. Doctoral student Dean Smith’s paper earned the top student award in the AEJMC Law and
Policy Division. Master’s student Jennifer Harlow took second place, and doctoral student Woody Hartzog placed third in the division. Doctoral student Carolyn Edy’s paper “Juggernaut in Kid Gloves: Inez Callaway Robb, 1901–1979” won top student paper in the History Division. Doctoral student Sunyoung Lee had a third place paper in the Teaching category of Public Relations Division. At least four of the school’s students – Lynette Holman, Christina Malik, Temple Northup and Bart Wojdynski – had three or more papers accepted for the conference. Several graduates of the school presented papers. Doctoral alumna Kathy Roberts Forde’s book “Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment” won the Frank Luther Mott-KTA book award and the AEJMC History Division book award.
Lillie Elliot Rachel Erb Melanie Fernandez Katherine Fitzpatrick Brittany Galli Colleen Goffe Evelyn Greene Jarrett Grimm Franzannie Guiteau Travis Hall Elsa Hasenzahl Zachary Hoffman Katherine Hogue Kate Howard Elizabeth Hundley Aisha Johnson Codey Johnston Benjamin Kane Ashton Katzer Abigail Keiper Elizabeth Kennedy Lauren Knight Grace Koerber Katherine Latshaw Wai Lo Alyssa Madden Nadine Maeser Kendra McCrorie Monique Meertens Nicolas Mendler Emily Merwin Margaret Moore
Kathryn Napier Jasmina Nogo John Otey William Parker Caitlin Pelliccia Terrence Petree Alexandra Porter Courtney Potter Sophie Pyle Madison Rochford Samuel Rubin Joseph Schwartz Jonathan Sekerak Jessica Serico Anne Smyth Nicholas Sotolongo Emily Van Tassel Deborah Vandiford Colleen Vasu Ila Walker Stuart West* Natalie Williams Tyler Williams Dioni Wise Rachel Zitin
December 2009 M.A.
Samuel D. Middleton Jr.
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Mary Beth Banks
Carolina J-school participants included assistant professor Barbara Friedman, who serves on the AJHA board and chairs its education committee; associate professor Frank Fee; doctoral Park Fellow and chair of the graduate committee Mark Slagle; doctoral Park Fellow Dave Remund; and doctoral Park Fellow Michael Fuhlhage. AEJMC Southeast Regional Colloquium Thirteen graduate students presented 15 papers at the AEJMC Southeast Regional Colloquium at the University of Mississippi March 19–21, 2009. UNC accounted for 37 percent of the total 41 papers at the colloquium, which attracted
Chris Badders Anna Bays Paula Buzzi Devin Coley David Crow Andrew Cummings Stephen Dalton Laura Davenport Amy Denton Joshua Ellis* Heather Follmer Danielle Forword Quinton Harper Wendy Holmes Stacey Hunter Jessica Johnson Ryan Jones Karen Kleimann Leila Lachichi Matthew Lamb Kathryn Leet Andrew Liu Jonathan Lyons Robert McAuley Kathryn McNamara Matthew Meadows Lee Molvie Chelsea Moody
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Russell joins the faculty: UNC President Frank Porter Graham asked Charles Phillips Russell to teach in the Department of English and the Department of Journalism, becoming the second faculty member in the latter department.
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students and professors from as far away as Utah and New York. Five students were paper award winners, and UNC students swept the student paper awards in the Law and Policy Division.
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Law and Policy (9 out of 16 papers presented)
Jennifer Harlow, Second Place Woodrow Hartzog Temple Northup, Third Place (tie) Sheetal Patel Autumn Shafer Dean Smith (2), First Place Nora Sullivan, Third Place (tie) Brooke Weberling History (3 out of 8 papers presented) Carolyn Edy Michael Fuhlhage (2) Open (3 out of 10 papers presented)
Dean Mundy Laura Ruel and Lynette Holman Bart Wojdynski, First Place
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Three graduate students and two faculty members participated in the American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA) Convention Oct. 6–9 in Tucson, Ariz.
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Nicole Norfleet Alyson O’Meara Chelsea Parks Terrence Petree Nicholas Placentra III Dalia Razo Amandalin Rehburg Emilie Reita Kandis Rich Mechthild Richenhagen Madison Rochford Jonathan Sekerak Roxanne Shabani C.J. Shaw Jenna Sherron Daniel Shirley Elias Sinkus Sara Staab Alexandra Valasquez Arden Van Vleck Alexander Whitfield Sarah Whitworth Kendrick Wilson Melissa Withorn Jeff Woodall Stephanie Yera Ashley Zammitt Jaime Zea Cifuentes
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American Journalism Historians Association Convention
Tavaras Quanta Holden Teresa Marguerite Kriegsman
Staff 1935
New Staff Jamon Glover joined the school’s staff in December 2009 as the equipment room manager. Jamon is a recent graduate from N.C. Central University’s journalism school, where he worked with Carolina Community Media Project director Jock Lauterer on the Durham VOICE community news.
The move to Bynum Hall: With funding from the Works Progress Administration, the University renovated Bynum Hall, the former gymnasium, and the department occupied the east side of the second floor.
Maura Murphy became the school’s associate dean for business and finance in September 2009. Prior to joining the school, she worked at UNC in the Department of Public Policy, Department of Exercise and Sport Science, and PlayMakers Repertory Company. Before coming to UNC, she spent many years in professional theater working as a stage manager. Maura holds a bachelor’s degree from Muhlenberg College, and she earned master’s and doctoral degrees from N.C. State University. Thomas Manshack joined the school in October 2009 as the assistant director of development. He came to Carolina after two years as assistant director of annual giving at Sewanee, the University of the South. Prior to beginning his career in development, Manshack taught high school English and creative writing in
Charlotte for two years. He received his bachelor’s degree in English and philosophy from Sewanee in 2005. Carly Bennett transitioned from student to staff member after graduating from the school in May 2009. As the school’s international programs fellow, she works with faculty and students to continue developing and strengthening the school’s international relationships, exchange programs and research opportunities. Stephanie Willen Brown joined the school in June 2009 as the director of the Roy H. Park Library. She came from the University of Connecticut where she provided reference to students and faculty in communication science and psychology, and served as an electronic resource librarian. Stephanie taught classes for the Graduate School of Library & Information Science at Simmons College for six years. She also has worked for Hampshire College and the Union-News in Springfield, Mass. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a bachelor’s degree in French literature and American history, and she earned her master’s in library and information science from Simmons College.
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Staff Retirements and Departures Benji Cauthren, who worked in the school’s development and alumni affairs office since 2004, left his position as assistant director development to enroll in the Cardozo School of Law in New York City.
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Maura Murphy
Malcolm Dougall left his position as the school’s equipment room manager to return to his native Australia with his wife, associate professor Elizabeth Dougall. Dottie Howell, assistant dean for business and finance since 2003, retired in September 2009. Barbara Semonche, the school’s award-winning librarian since 1990, retired in February 2009.
Thomas Manshack
Carly Bennett
Fred Thomsen, the school’s director of information technology since 1999, left the school in January 2010 to join his family in Baltimore, where he is the information technology manager at Johns Hopkins University’s Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
Staff Directory David Alexander Director, information technology and services 919.962.0281 davidale@email.unc.edu Jay Almers Educational content and Web site developer 919.843.8286 jayalmers@unc.edu Cindy Anderson Graduate program manager 919.843.8307 andersoc@email.unc.edu Marla Barnes Student records assistant 919.962.0531 mjbarnes@email.unc.edu Jo Bass Administrative assistant to the dean 919.843.8288 jbass@email.unc.edu Carly Bennett International programs fellow 919.843.2573 cben@email.unc.edu Stephanie Willen Brown Director, Park Library 919.843.8300 swbrown@unc.edu
Jay Eubank Director, career services and special programs 919.962.4518 jeubank@email.unc.edu Dylan Field TV producer/director 919.843.3644 dfield@email.unc.edu
Jamon Glover Equipment room manager 919.962.0718 jamon.glover@gmail.com
Nancy Pawlow Office assistant 919.843.8304 nancy_pawlow@unc.edu
Ken Hales Accounting manager 919.843.8293 tkhales@email.unc.edu
Monica Hill, director of the N.C. Scholastic Media Association based in the school, received a 2009 Pioneer Award, the National Scholastic Press Association’s top honor for individuals.
Speed Hallman Associate dean for development and alumni affairs 919.962.9467 speed_hallman@unc.edu Monica Hill Director, N.C. Scholastic Media Association 919.962.4639 ncsma@unc.edu Terry Hill TV engineer 919.962.4075 terry_hill@unc.edu Lester Holley Assistant to accounting manager 919.843.8294 holley@email.unc.edu Sharon Jones Director, student services and assessment 919.962.2479 shjones@email.unc.edu Rachel Lillis Assistant director, executive education and distance education 919.966.7024 lillis@email.unc.edu Thomas Manshack Assistant director of development 919.843.2026 manshack@unc.edu Maura Murphy Associate dean for business and finance 919.843.8287 murf@email.unc.edu
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Linda Peterson School secretary 919.962.1204 lkpeters@email.unc.edu Dan Siler TV producer/director 919.843.6644 daniel.siler@gmail.com Louise Spieler Associate dean for professional education and strategic initiatives 919.843.8137 lspieler@unc.edu David Whitehead Technical support analyst 919.962.0527 dwhitehe@email.unc.edu Kyle York Assistant to the dean for communications 919.966.3323 sky@unc.edu
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Morgan Ellis Special projects editor 919.843.0472 morgan_ellis@unc.edu
Dalis Northup Student records assistant 919.962.3744 dnorthup@email.unc.edu
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Amy Bugno Development and alumni affairs assistant 919.962.3037 amybugno@unc.edu
Jennifer Klimas Gallina Director, research administration 919.843.8186 jgallina@unc.edu
Alumni 1935–1940 Spearman and Morrison arrive: Walter Spearman, who would become a Carolina journalism fixture and student favorite, joined the faculty in 1935. At the time of his appointment, he was working toward a master’s degree in dramatic art. Joseph Morrison joined the faculty in 1940, but went on military duty shortly after and did not return until after WWII.
Alumni News The school’s graduates go on to leadership positions in the journalism and communication industries. Others go on to academic careers creating new knowledge and training the next generation of media professionals. Carolina J-school alumni are famously loyal and stay connected as donors, volunteers, mentors and classroom visitors. Many keep the school updated on their career progress and personal lives. More than 4,300 stay connected to the school community using J-link, the school’s online alumni database and social network, and more are joining every day. Here is a sampling of alumni news from the past year:
Christian Barillas ’01 was in the cast of the Broadway play “Lydia.” Kista Bremer ’00 received a 2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, which is given annually to six women writers who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their careers. Andrea Bruce ’95 of The Washington Post won photographer of the year from the White House News Photographers Association. She was runner-up for large markets in the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism 2009.
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Robert Albright ’03 accepted a position at FSG Social Impact Advisors in Boston as consultant. Prior to joining FSG, Robert graduated in June 2009 with an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
Suzy Maynard Barile ’75 published her first book, the non-fiction “Undaunted Heart: The True Story of a Southern Belle and a Yankee General.” The book tells the story of UNC President David L. Swain’s daughter Ella, who married the Yankee general whose troops occupied Chapel Hill at the end of the Civil War.
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Hussman honored with Distinguished Alumnus Award The UNC Faculty Council presented 1968 J-school graduate Walter Hussman with the University’s Distinguished Alumnus Award during the University Day convocation on Oct. 12, 2009, in Memorial Hall. Hussman, publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, is a third-generation newspaper publisher and head of WEHCO Media in Little Rock. The company operates daily and weekly newspapers and cable television
companies in five states. Hussman has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Associated Press and as chair of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. His skillful management of the Arkansas Democrat when locked in a circulation war with the Arkansas Gazette has been called a classic example of how to attract readers by increasing news coverage. The Knight Foundation calls him “a newsman defying
conventional thinking by turning out quality journalism that leads to healthy profitability.” Hussman has worked to improve public education in Little Rock, has supported creation of three statefunded charter schools and has generously supported the Arkansans for Education Reform Foundation. He has endowed four distinguished professorships at Carolina and contributed generously to the renovation of Carroll Hall in preparation for its
Jennifer Carpenter ’09 won a Fulbright award to work in Albania on youth education, creating a documentary film and seeking support for civic engagement of young people. Brian Carroll ’87 won one of four $1,250 research awards at the 2008 American Journalism Historians Association convention in Seattle. Haley Childers ’01 and Michael Childers announced the birth of a baby girl, Caroline Yates Childers, on Sept. 23, 2009, in Boone, N.C. Monty Cook ’86 became editor of the The Baltimore Sun. Kimberly Costello ’94 announced the birth of a baby boy, Marshall McMahon Hamilton, on Oct. 21, 2009, in Greensboro, N.C. Gabe Dance ’06, Tom Jackson ’04, Nancy Donaldson ’05 and Ray Jones ’06 were among the contributors to the body of multimedia work that earned The New York Times top honors in the KnightBatten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Jim Roberts ’77 leads the Times’ online division.
Charles H. Elkins Jr. ’65 retired after a 43-year career in journalism at the Winston-Salem Journal.
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Dolores Flamiano ’92 won the top faculty paper and top paper devoted to minority subjects at the American Journalism Historians Association convention in Seattle. Flamiano also won one of four $1,250 research awards at the meeting. Kathy Forde ’05 won the AEJMC History Division Book Award for the Best Book on Journalism & Mass Communication History for “Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment,” published in 2008. The book also won the Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha book award. John Frank ’04 began covering politics, the legislature and state government for the St. Petersburg Times capital bureau. He is also writing for the Miami Herald.
WWII and enrollment: World War II caused a decline in the enrollment of men at the University. However, the enrollment of women in the journalism department reaches 83 percent in 1945. Alumna Dorothy Coble Helms is pictured above.
Elliot Fus ’91 joined the law firm of Blanco Tackabery & Matamoros, P.A., in WinstonSalem, N.C., as an associate. Verna Gates ’79 accepted a lifetime achievement award from the National Federation of Press Women. (See page 29.)
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occupation by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Others receiving Distinguished Alumna and Alumnus Awards were Janie Fouke, Santiago Gangotena, Mia Hamm and the late William Little. Since 1971, the faculty has presented the Distinguished Alumna and Alumnus Awards on University Day to recognize those Tar Heels who have made outstanding contributions to humanity.
Bill Goodwyn ’82, president of Discovery Education, spoke at the United Nations as part of UN International Youth Day. He spoke about youth creating solutions to environmental issues in their communities.
Katherine Kershaw ’05 accepted a position at the UNC School of Law as communications manager. Prior to working with UNC, Katherine was on staff with the Council for Entrepreneurial Development in the Research Triangle Park. Stacie Knight ’99 and Patrick Knight announced their marriage on May 9, 2009, in Charlotte. Donna Leinwand ’89, USA Today reporter, became president of the National Press Club. Linda Lumsden ’95 won an honorable mention in the competition for outstanding paper in women’s history at the American Journalism Historians Association convention in Seattle. Stephanie Maxwell ’00 accepted a position at WAPT-TV in Jackson, Miss., as main evening anchor. She anchors the 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. news.
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Vonda T. Hampton ’91 was promoted to senior business development manager of the marketing department at Miller & Chevalier, a law firm in Washington, D.C.
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Bob Holliday ’73 retired from WRAL-TV in Raleigh after 28 years of anchoring and reporting. He served as sports anchor of WRAL’s weekend newscast since 1981, and he oversaw the station’s sports coverage during most of his tenure. Walter Hussman ’68, publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, was presented with the University’s Distinguished Alumnus Award. (See page 26.) Jamie Jacobson ’77 is vice president of Adams and Longino advertising agency of Greenville, N.C., which won two of six categories in the Marine Marketers of America 2009 Annual Neptune Awards for Marketing Excellence. Torrye Jones ’07 and Brandon Parker ’06 announced their marriage on July 19, 2008, in Stafford, Va. Ryan Keefer ’00 announced the birth of a baby boy, Tyler Andrew, on Sept. 17, 2009.
Gibson McMahon ’99 and Aris McMahon announced the birth of a baby boy, John Pate McMahon, on May 6, 2009, in Alexandria, Va. Elizabeth McMillan ’02 and Jesse McMillan announced their marriage on July 18, 2009, in Atlanta. Susan Cranford Ross ’77 retired as assistant vice president at Duke University after 28 years on the development staff. She has started a strategic fundraising consulting firm focusing on nonprofits and educational institutions. Joseph Sanchez ’78 received a master’s in management from the University of Redlands in Redlands, Calif. He was inducted into the University of Redlands Whitehead Leadership Society. Doug Smith ’66 retired in June 2009 after 42 years as a writer and editor at The Charlotte Observer. He began his career in 1965 as a part-time reporter at The Raleigh Times while a senior at UNC. Penelope Pence Smith ’96 was promoted to department chair over management and marketing in the College of Business Administration at the College of Communication at Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu.
Mitra Sorrells ’89 created Florida Senior Living Advisor (www.flseniorlivingadvisor.com), a database of senior living facilities in Florida. Kristen Strauss ’08 was promoted to associate account executive at McNeely Pigott & Fox Public Relations in Nashville, Tenn.
Barbara Weyher ’73 became the president of the N.C. State Bar, the organization that licenses and regulates lawyers. She is a founding partner of Yates, McLamb & Weyher, a civil defense law firm based in Raleigh. Graham Williams ’77 accepted a position at the Union County News in Union, S.C., as editor.
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years, Gates writes for international, national and regional publications. She has been a correspondent for Time magazine and has worked as a correspondent for Reuters for eight years. Besides her demanding writing career, Gates maintains a high profile in the community. She founded and serves as executive director for an outdoor education nonprofit, Fresh Air Family, that launched in 2006. It offers more than 200 events per year, directs two after school programs and two more in-school programs. The outreach is to more than 55,000 people. Fresh Air Family recently received a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education. As an ethnobotanist, Gates teaches at Miles College as a visiting professor and speaks around the Southeast. She recently lectured at the Birmingham Museum of Art, interpreting the plants appearing in the upcoming American exhibit, “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Gates is a 1979 Carolina graduate of the Department of Radio, Television and Motion Pictures.
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Citing the difficulties of journalism: from being ousted from a corporate headquarters, to being threatened with lawsuits, arrest and bodily harm, Verna Gates accepted a lifetime achievement award from the National Federation of Press Women. Gates has covered topics ranging from bomber Eric Rudolph, church arsonists, Ten Commandment public display challenges, environmental injustice, corporate corruption and features such as Internet dating and travel. “An honor from your peers makes all of the stresses of unwilling interviewees and tight deadlines worthwhile,” said Gates. The Communicator of Achievement Award is presented annually to journalists based on professional achievement, community service and service to the organization. Based in Birmingham, Ala., Gates received the Communicator of Achievement Award from NFPW affiliate Alabama Media Professionals before arriving at the national conference as one of 15 finalists from around the nation. “Verna Gates is able to reach key movers and shakers when we need them, and is able to pull more than just a ‘no comment.’ She asks the hard questions and is persistent until she gets the answers. Though Verna juggles many things in her work life, she is available 24/7 to cover news, a task she carries out with an inquisitive mind and an upbeat manner,” says Matthew Bigg, Bureau Chief at Reuters in Atlanta. Gates’ career began as one of the original 50 employees of CNN who launched the news network. She worked for CNN as a writer/producer for four years. A freelance writer for 26
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The Poynter Institute, a school dedicated to teaching practitioners and teachers of journalism, has appointed two Carolina journalism school graduates to its National Advisory Board. Bradley Hamm, dean and professor at the Indiana University School of Journalism, and Melanie Sill, editor and senior vice president for The Sacramento Bee, are among six new members appointed in January 2010. Poynter’s board provides feedback and advice to the institute’s president throughout the year. Board members serve terms of four years. Hamm earned his doctoral degree in mass communication research from the Carolina. Before joining Indiana University, he was the associate dean of the School of Melanie Sill Communications at Elon University. Hamm has taught in study abroad programs in Japan, China and Great Britain and started his career as a newspaper reporter. His teaching and research interests are in journalism history and media theory, particularly agenda setting theory. Sill is responsible for The Bee’s print and online news and opinion content and its digital media department. She joined The Bee in 2007 after nearly 25 years at The Bradley Hamm News & Observer, most recently as executive editor and senior vice president. Prior to working for The News & Observer, she worked as a reporter at The Transylvania Times in Brevard, N.C. and in the state capital bureau of United Press International. Sill is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and Investigative Reporters and Editors and the National Freedom of Information Coalition Board of Directors. She is a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
The fourth annual Ph.D. Alumni Breakfast, sponsored by the Triad Foundation, was held Aug. 7, 2009, in Boston, at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s (AEJMC) national convention. About 70 faculty, current doctoral students and Ph.D. Alumni Association members, were given an update on the graduate program and the school by Anne Johnston, associate dean for graduate studies and dean Jean Folkerts. Speed Hallman, associate dean for development and alumni affairs, discussed some of the ways Tar Heels can give back to the school. The breakfast also celebrated the creation of a Ph.D. Alumni Association blog, which can be found at jomcphdalumni.wordpress.com, and a mentoring program. Another Ph.D. reunion is scheduled for March 12, 2010, during the AEJMC Southeast Colloquium being held in Chapel Hill. Glenn Scott, a doctoral alumnus and faculty member at Elon University, is the new president of the Ph.D. Alumni Association. Tim Bajkiewicz, a 2002 graduate and an associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, was elected vice president. To join the group, or for more information, contact Scott at gscott3@elon.edu.
Advisory Boards Board of Advisers The school’s board of advisers is composed of leading journalists, media professionals and executives committed to helping the school maintain its leadership role in journalism and mass communication education. Edward H. Vick, Chair Former Chairman and CEO Young & Rubicam Advertising Old Greenwich, Conn.
Susan Credle U.S. Chief Creative Officer Leo Burnett Chicago
Gloria Anderson President & Editor-in-Chief New York Times News Service New York
Joel Curran Managing Director, Midwest Region Manning, Selvage & Lee Chicago
Bonnie Angelo Author Time Magazine (Retired) Bethesda, Md.
Donald W. Curtis President Curtis Media Group Raleigh, N.C.
Stephanie Bass Communications Coordinator Blueprint NC Raleigh, N.C.
Richard Curtis USA Today (Retired) Fairfax Station, Va.
George Beasley Chairman and CEO Beasley Broadcast Group Naples, Fla.
Robin Daughtridge Photo Editor Chicago Tribune Chicago
Lorraine Bennett CNN (Retired) Murphy, N.C.
Frank Denton Vice President of News Morris Communications Inc. Augusta, Ga.
Russell Carter President Atlantic Corp. Wilmington, N.C. Lisa Church President eMarketer New York Monty Cook Senior Vice President, Editor The Baltimore Sun Baltimore
Clyde Ensslin Alexandria, Va. Ken Eudy CEO Capstrat Raleigh, N.C. John Fish Founder Multimedia Consultants, LLC Naples, Fla. Joyce Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick Communication Inc. Raleigh, N.C.
Deborah Simpkins Fullerton Vice President of Marketing Loyola University Health Systems Maywood, Ill.
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Sam Fulwood Senior Fellow Center for American Progress Washington, D.C. Shailendra Ghorpade MetLife Bank London Bill Goodwyn President, Aff. Sales and Marketing Discovery Networks Charlotte, N.C. Ric Gorman GOCOM Hilton Head Island, S.C. John L. Greene Vice President Capitol Broadcasting Raleigh, N.C. Wade Hargrove Brooks, Pierce, McLendon Raleigh, N.C. Bryant Haskins Senior Director of Communications Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Madison, N.J. David Hawpe Vice President and Editorial Director The Courier-Journal Louisville, Ky.
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Joe Benton McLean, Va.
John L. Dotson Jr. Publisher Emeritus Akron Beacon Journal Boulder, Colo.
Robert Friedman Wilton, Conn.
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Tim Bennett President Harpo Productions Chicago
Randall Fraser Former Vice President, Government Affairs – North Carolina Time Warner Cable Raleigh, N.C.
1943 The introduction of broadcast: The department offered the first broadcast journalism course, Journalism 67, “Radio News and Features.� Over the years, Russell, Spearman and Morrison taught the course. Russell did a 15-minute radio program every Sunday at WPTF, a radio station in Raleigh.
Tom Howe Director and General Manager UNC-TV RTP, N.C.
Donna Leinwand Reporter USA Today Washington, D.C.
J. Walker Smith Jr. President Yankelovich Partners Inc. Atlanta
Kenny Irby Visual Journalism Group Leader Poynter Institute for Media Studies St. Petersburg, Fla.
Draggan Mihailovich Producer 60 Minutes New York
Daniel Teachey Corporate Communications Director DataFlux Corporation Cary, N.C.
Jamie Jacobson Vice President Adams & Longino Advertising Greenville, N.C.
Janet Northen Senior Vice President and Director of Agency Communication McKinney Durham, N.C.
Gene Upchurch Vice President, State Public Affairs Progress Energy Raleigh, N.C.
Larry Keith Sports Illustrated (Retired) Garden City, N.Y.
Roy H. (Trip) Park III Trip Park Productions Charlotte, N.C.
Brian Kelly President, Residential Services, Carolina Region Time Warner Cable Charlotte, N.C.
Roy H. Park Jr. Chairman and CEO Park Outdoor Advertising Ithaca, N.Y.
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Tom Kennedy Resident professional Knight Center for International Media Carol Gables, Fla.
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Walter D. Phillips Editor Carteret County News Times Morehead City, N.C. Michael Pulitzer Winston-Salem, N.C.
William Keyes President Institute for Responsible Citizenship Washington, D.C.
Dorothy S. Ridings Former President & CEO Council on Foundations Louisville, Ky.
Jason Kilar CEO Hulu Los Angeles
H. Zane Robbins Former Executive Director, Global Markets Andersen Worldwide Evanston, Ill.
David Kirk Vice President, New Business Development Pace Communications Greensboro, N.C. Barb Lee President PointMade Films New York
Cathy S. Roche Vice President, Corporate Communications Duke Energy Corporation Charlotte, N.C. Merrill Rose Merrill Rose LLC New York
Carl Venters Chairman Communication Enterprises Inc. Wilmington, N.C. Reid Walker Vice President, Global Communication and Sponsorship Lenovo Morrisville, N.C. Jim Wallace Former Director of Imaging, Print, Photo Smithsonian Institution Falls Church, Va. Paige West Director of Interactivity MSNBC.com Redmond, Wash. John Woestendiek Baltimore David Woronoff Publisher The Pilot Southern Pines, N.C.
Journalism Alumni and Friends Association The Journalism Alumni and Friends Association (JAFA) was formed in 1980 to help alumni and friends become more involved with the school. Through JAFA, alumni and friends mentor students, participate in social activities, promote the school in their communities and encourage others to support the school. Each year, JAFA sponsors programs and events such as career mentoring, alumni receptions, student networking trips and resume workshops. President Daniel Teachey ’95 AB, ’97 MPA Corporate Communications Director DataFlux Corporation Cary, N.C. Bob Bryant ’86 Sales and Marketing McDevitt Sotheby’s International Realty Pinehurst, N.C. Liz Hamner ’03 Account Executive Capstrat Raleigh, N.C. Sarah Lamm ’99 Manager of Marketing UNC General Alumni Association Chapel Hill, N.C.
Jim Muldrow ’80 News Editor The Enquirer-Journal Monroe, N.C. Andrew Park ’97 MA Freelance writer Chapel Hill, N.C.
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West Coast Regional Representative Lisa Bay Adams ’96 Vice President of Marketing and Promotions FOX Walden Santa Monica, Calif. Chicago Regional Representative Kimberly May ’01 Senior Associate Business Manager Oscar Mayer Hot Dogs Glenview, Ill. Atlanta Regional Representative Polly Howes ’77 Ph.D. Student University of Georgia Atlanta, Ga. D.C. Area Regional Representative David Small ’97 Public Affairs Officer U.S. Air Force Arlington, Va.
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Meg Merrill ’79 Worldwide Marketing Manager IBM Global Business Services Charlotte, N.C.
Peter Mitchell ’79 President and CEO The Woodbine Agency Winston-Salem, N.C.
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The School of Journalism and Mass Communication Foundation of North Carolina ( JOMC Foundation), founded in 1949, is responsible for the school’s endowment, which provides critical financial support that supplements state appropriations and strengthens teaching, research and public service.
said fiscal year 2009 was the most difficult year ever for college and university endowments. UNC’s ranking among Cambridge Associates University Endowments greater than $1 billion for the last one, three and five years was: No. 5 of 56 over five years, No. 1 of 56 over three years and No. 20 of 56 this past year.
At the close of the 2008-2009 fiscal year, the school’s endowment, managed by the UNC Investment Fund, was valued at more than $13.3 million, down from $16.75 million the previous year. John King of the UNC Investment Fund
Fred Crisp Jr., Ed Harper, Deuce Niven and Michael Pulitzer rotated off of the board this year as their terms expired. Rick Jackson, formerly of WBT Radio in Charlotte, accepted a position in San Diego and resigned from the board.
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Orage Quarles III was elected president, and Carl Venters was reelected to the board. Newly elected to the board were Steven Hammel of WRAL-TV and Hank Price of WXII-TV.
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OFFICERS President Orage Quarles III Publisher The News & Observer Raleigh, N.C.
The Duke threat: The N.C. Press Association, led by Holt McPherson, pressured the University to seek accreditation for the Department of Journalism. If the university did not improve its journalism program, McPherson said the state’s newspapermen would ask Duke University to start a journalism program.
Treasurer Walter D. Phillips Editor Carteret County News-Times Morehead City, N.C. Secretary Jean Folkerts Dean UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication Chapel Hill, N.C. FOUNDATION BOARD Charles Broadwell Publisher The Fayetteville Observer Fayetteville, N.C.
Morgan Dickerman Publisher The Wilson Daily Times Wilson, N.C. Charlene Grunwaldt Publisher Triangle Business Journal Raleigh, N.C. Steven Hammel Vice President and General Manager WRAL-TV Raleigh, N.C. Mark Harden Senior Credit Officer – Capital Markets U.S. Bank Credit Administration Charlotte, N.C. Regina Howard-Glaspie Circulation Director News & Record Greensboro, N.C.
Elliott Potter Executive Editor and Associate Publisher The Daily News Jacksonville, N.C. Hank Price President and General Manager WXII-TV Winston-Salem, N.C. John Robinson Editor News & Record Greensboro, N.C. Federico van Gelderen New Business Development WUVC-TV 40 Raleigh, N.C. Carl Venters Chair Communication Enterprises Inc. Wilmington, N.C. D. Jordan Whichard III Publisher The Daily Reflector Greenville, N.C.
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Elizabeth Cook Editor The Salisbury Post Salisbury, N.C.
Donald Curtis President Curtis Media Group Raleigh, N.C.
John Idler President and General Manager WTVD-TV Durham, N.C.
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Center for Media Law and Policy Advisory Board The center’s advisory board is dedicated to helping set the center’s course. The board has helped to develop a mission for the center, suggested topics and presenters for the center’s public programs, and provided ideas and contacts for fundraising. Cathy Packer, Faculty Director Professor UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication Chapel Hill, N.C. Jonathan E. Buchan Partner McGuireWoods LLP Charlotte, N.C.
Elizabeth Cook Editor The Salisbury Post Salisbury, N.C. Stephanie Crayton Public Affairs and Marketing UNC Hospitals Chapel Hill, N.C.
Deborah R. Gerhardt Assistant Professor UNC School of Law Chapel Hill, N.C. James R. Guthrie Consultant/Former President & CEO National Advertising Review Council Pittsboro, N.C. Wade Hargrove Partner Brooks, Pierce, McLendon & Humphrey LLP Raleigh, N.C.
Medical and Science Journalism Advisory Board The Medical and Science Journalism Advisory Board is composed of leading medical, health and science journalists; health professionals and scientists interested in improving communication about medicine and science; and academics interested in health communication. The board meets once a year, providing the director of the program with advice and perspective. Advisory board members also serve as a resource for students and alumni of the medical and science journalism program. Tim Bajkiewicz, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Mass Communications Virginia Commonwealth University
Nortin M. Hadler, M.D. Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, UNC Author/ABCnews.com Health Commentator
Karl Leif Bates Manager of Research Communications Duke University News & Communications
Rose Hoban Health Reporter WUNC-FM
Helen Chickering Medical Reporter NBC NewsChannel Peter Frishauf Founder Medscape and SCP Communications
David Kroll, Ph.D. Professor and Chair of Pharmaceutical Sciences North Carolina Central University Carol Krucoff Contributing Editor Prevention Magazine/Healing Moves
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Karen Michel NPR Correspondent Visiting Assistant Professor, Communication and the Arts Marist College Jeffrey Molter Associate Vice President Health Sciences Communications Emory University Nancy Shute Contributing Editor US News & World Report
News photography: Stuart Sechriest joined the faculty, and added the first photography course, Journalism 80, “News Photography.”
Bill Silberg Vice President, Publishing and Communications New York Academy of Sciences Paula Spencer Author and Contributing Editor; Senior Editor, Caring.com Parenting and Woman’s Day
Patricia M. McCarthy Publishing Consultant/Writer/ Editor
P. Blake Keating Vice President, Claims First Media Insurance Overland Park, Kan.
Amanda Martin General Counsel to the N.C. Press Association and Partner Everett, Gaskins, Hancock & Stevens LLP Raleigh, N.C.
Ruth Walden James Howard and Hallie McLean Parker Distinguished Professor UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication Chapel Hill, N.C. Mark Webbink Director, Center for Patent Innovations Visiting Professor, New York Law School Durham, N.C. David Woronoff Publisher The Pilot Southern Pines, N.C.
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William P. Marshall William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law UNC School of Law Chapel Hill, N.C.
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Michael Hoefges Associate Professor UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication Chapel Hill, N.C.
Anne Klinefelter Associate Professor and Director of the Law Library UNC School of Law Chapel Hill, N.C.
Brent Menninger, M.D. Psychiatrist Overland Park, Kansas
1948 The first accreditation attempt: Under pressure from the N.C. Press Association, in February 1948, the department went through the accreditation process, which it failed. The department had no journalism ethics course at the time and scored poorly in equipment and facilities categories. The University, under Chancellor Robert House, responded with a promise of better facilities, and the faculty overhauled the curriculum.
Carolina del Norte Advisory Board The advisory board guides the development of Carolina del Norte and provides feedback and expertise to its professional and academic projects. It is composed of students, faculty, Latina/o media journalists, leading members of Latina/o community organizations and a representative of the state’s government. Chair Lucila Vargas Professor School of Journalism and Mass Communication University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tony Asion Executive Director El Pueblo Inc. Raleigh, N.C. Andrea Bazán President Triangle Community Foundation Durham, N.C.
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Francesca Dillman Carpentier Assistant Professor School of Journalism and Mass Communication University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Paul Cuadros Assistant Professor School of Journalism and Mass Communication University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Yvonne Cerna Director of Communication Univision 40 Raleigh, N.C. Altha Cravey Associate Professor Department of Geography University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill José Cusicanqui Editor of Triangle Area Qué Pasa Media Raleigh, N.C. María DeGuzmán Associate Professor Director of Latina/o Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill Department of English & Comparative Literature University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael Fuhlhage Doctoral student School of Journalism and Mass Communication University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Julie Garza Program Director La Ley radio station, Curtis Media Group Raleigh, N.C. Hanna Gill Assistant Director/Research Associate Institute for the Study of the Americas University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Mike Leary Broker, Realtor Prudential York Simpson Underwood Raleigh, N.C. Axel Lluch Director of Hispanic/Latino Affairs Office of the Governor Raleigh, N.C. Julia Cardona Mack Senior Lecturer Department of Romance Languages and Literatures University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lisa Paulin-Cid Assistant Professor Department of English and Mass Communication N.C. Central University Durham, N.C. María C. Scanga Retired Attorney North Carolina Community Credit Union, founding board member C. A. Tuggle Professor School of Journalism and Mass Communication University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Visitors Visiting Scholars Bae, Jin Ah Department of Media Image Art & Technology Kongju National University (Korea) (August 2009 - August 2010) Chen, Kai (Karen) Beijing Broadcasting Institute Communication University of China (August 2009 - July 2010) Dang, Fangli Department of Journalism Shanghai University of Finance & Economics ( July 2009 - June 2010) Jung, Joon-Hyung Television news reporter SBS TV (Korea) (August 2009 - July 2010) Liu, Quan School of Journalism and Communication Nanjing Normal University (August 2009 - July 2010)
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Quan Liu
Park, Soo Jin Korea Economic Daily Newspaper ( July 2009 - July 2011)
Zhang, Huifeng Associate Professor Renmin University of China (August 2009 - July 2010)
Wang, Zhiyong (George) Editor & journalist China Internet Information Center ( January 2010 - May 2010)
Zhang, Rui Supervisor, reporter, editor China Internet Information Center ( January 2010 - May 2010)
Xin, Xin (Carol) Lecturer Communication University of China (August 2009 - August 2010)
Zhang, Youbin School of Journalism and Communication Sichuan International Studies University ( January 2010 - December 2010)
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The school welcomes numerous visitors every year as classroom speakers and guest lecturers. Leading professionals and academics from outside of the school give students and faculty valuable new perspectives and contacts. Among the visitors to the school during the centennial of journalism and mass communication education at Carolina: Frank Andrews, president and CEO of August Jackson Kristen Ashburn, photographer whose book “I Am Because We Are� visually documents the AIDS pandemic in Africa Frank Andrews
Anthony Falzone, executive director of the Stanford Fair Use Project Kathy Roberts Forde, assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota Anthony Falzone
Francesca Gino
Diego Garcia, assistant professor at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School Gary W. Green, Orlando Sentinel photojournalist
Chris Beaudoin, associate professor at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University Brad Bennett, head of Wildfire in WinstonSalem Furman Bisher, Hall of Fame sportswriter for The Atlanta Journal Constitution
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Dan Gillmor, director of the Center for Citizen Media Francesca Gino, assistant professor at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School
Michael Brouder, director of on-air presentation and marketing, FOX Sports
Ronald Goldfarb, attorney and author of “In Confidence: When to Protect Secrecy and When to Require Disclosure”
Telisha Bryan, assistant copydesk chief, Cosmopolitan magazine
Richard Griffiths, editorial director for CNN
Trey Buchholz, CEO and founder, First Serve, a social outreach program using tennis to inspire academic achievement for disadvantaged children
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Jeff Genthner, senior vice president and general manager of FOX Sports, South/Tennessee/Carolinas
Erik Bucy, associate professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University Celeste Bustamante, assistant professor and director of graduate studies in the University of Arizona School of Journalism Marci Campbell, professor at the UNC School of Public Health Rodrigo Cervantes, Mundo Hispanico in Atlanta Megan Collins, promotions director for the Baltimore Ravens Noshir Contractor, professor at the McCormick School of Engineering, School of Communication and Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University Andy DuMaine, founder and chief creative officer of shrinkingfootprint, an eco-efficiency and sustainability marketing resource
Stephanie Haas, professor in the UNC School of Information and Library Science Jeffrey Hancock, associate professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University Chris Hannan, senior vice president, FOX Sports Regional Networks Tim Harrower, newspaper design specialist Charlene Haykel, managing principal, The Haykel Group Ana Hernandez-Ochoa, director of marketing and promotions for the Orange Bowl Joanne Hershfield, professor in the UNC Department of Women’s Studies Jeffrey R. Hoffman, founder and president of the Hoffman Agency Walter Hussman, publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and head of WEHCO Media in Little Rock, Ark. Allen Kelly, public relations strategist
Tom Kennedy, formerly of The Washington Post and National Geographic
Kate Schlegel, news editor at WSJ.com, the Web site of The Wall Street Journal
Jason Kilar, Hulu CEO
Michael Slater, professor at the Ohio University School of Communication
Hank Klibanoff, co-author of “The Race Beat,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the civil rights movement and journalism in the 1950s and 1960s Antonin Kratochvil, World Press Photo Award winner and VII Photo Agency cofounder Mary Frances Luce, professor at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University Jean Maye, director of human resources, WPIX-TV in New York Jesus Meza, director of Communication Sciences Academic Program at School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus Walter Middlebrook, recruiting editor for The Detroit News Nelson Mumma, PR consultant with PR Exponential Meg Merrill, worldwide marketing manager for IBM Global Business Services Alan Murray, deputy managing editor and executive editor for online at The Wall Street Journal
Mary Beth Oliver, professor at the College of Communications at Penn State University
Daniel Solove, privacy law expert and professor at The George Washington University Law Brian Southwell, associate professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota Kirk Stewart, executive vice president at APCO Worldwide, and former VP of global communications at Nike Jack Sussman, executive vice president for specials, music and live events with CBS Entertainment Enrique Tames, dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus Larry Van Dyne, staff writer, Washingtonian magazine David Woronoff, publisher of The Pilot of Southern Pines, N.C. Fred Whitfield, president and chief operating officer, Bobcats Sports & Entertainment Susan Zirinsky, executive producer of 48 Hours and an executive producer of special projects for the network’s news and entertainment divisions
Deborah Potter, executive director of NewsLab Scott Price, writer for Sports Illustrated Jacqueline Randell, assistant to the editor-inchief, Teen Vogue
David Roskos-Ewoldsen, professor at the Ohio University School of Communication
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Pat Philbin, former chief of public affairs for the Coast Guard and former FEMA external relations director
Rajiv Rimal, associate professor at the School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University
The first female faculty member: Lola Lee Mustard graduated from the department and became its first female faculty member, teaching advertising.
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Christopher Nurko, the global head of strategy and innovation with Nitro Group Advertising and Innovation in London
Tom Smith, retired publisher and publishing consultant
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ABC News on Campus ABC News on Campus is a partnership with six top U.S. journalism schools to educate and mentor talented college students. ABC News first selected the school as home to a digital bureau in 2008, providing annual stipends to manage the bureau and providing digital technology including video cameras, computers and editing software. Student bureau members produce multimedia content, and on a daily basis they gather information, visuals and audio that are incorporated into network coverage on a variety of ABC News digital and broadcast platforms. Students receive hands-on guidance in their efforts from network producers. When the bureau opened in September 2008, Carolina’s first ABC Bureau Chief was Carly Swain. In the summer of 2009, Nadine Maeser took charge of the bureau. In fall 2009, student Chris Badders took the helm. Other members of the 2009–10 bureau staff include Lauren McGaha and Adam Yosim. Assistant professor Dave Cupp serves as the faculty adviser.
• A tradition and culture of excellence that serves students, the news industry and journalism education. • An outstanding, collegial faculty that reflects both great professional experience and a robust scholarly agenda. • Strong teaching that includes individual mentoring, commitment to students, and innovation. • A smooth and confident transition to new leadership focused on professional convergence and reinforcing the school’s research agenda. • Unusually strong ties to, and support from, media professionals in North Carolina and the nation. • Service to the state of North Carolina. • Enthusiastic, intelligent and accomplished students. • State-of-the-art resources. • Marked improvements in various aspects of diversity. The team called for the school to expand and enhance its plan for assessing student outcomes. Assessing student outcomes focuses on measures other than grades, awards and job placements.
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The report said Jean Folkerts, the school’s dean, is “described by colleagues as a fast learner and a good listener, an administrator who invites and heeds faculty input and works to involve them in her key initiatives” and “has traveled tirelessly to get to know the media organizations in the school’s service area.”
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The team praised the school for:
Accreditation The school was re-accredited in 2009 by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (ACEJMC). The recommendation came after a February 2009 visit to the school by a team of academics and professionals representing the accrediting council that said the school “has earned a reputation as one of the premier programs in journalism and mass communication.” The school has been accredited since 1958.
The team called the new curriculum that launched in fall 2009 “a more converged and ambitious undergraduate curriculum” and said “students universally praise the quality of their instructors.” Team members commended the relationship between the school and N.C. media, saying “one of the more remarkable legacies of the school is the extraordinary support it receives from the N.C. news and media industries.” ACEJMC is the national organization that evaluates journalism and mass communication programs. All accredited programs are reviewed every six years.
Advertising Advertising is the second largest program in the school. More than 150 students are engaged in the study and practice of advertising during this time of fundamental change in the industry. A full-time faculty of six supports the students in their studies. Students learn the principles behind multimedia advertising campaigns and the leading theories behind the marketing and branding of products. The classes are also geared to help students understand and stay current with the enormous changes in the industry brought by the Internet, learning new disciplines related to search marketing and permission marketing that are growing in revenue and influence. To reflect the changes in industry, the advertising and public relations programs merged a number of critical courses to capture the new world of the communications business. Guest speakers including Susan Credle, chief creative officer of Leo Burnett, and Trip Park, award-winning illustrator and art director, have visited advertising students. Advertising graduates have been hired at agencies including Ogilvy and Crispin and companies including Apple and Unilever.
jomc.unc.edu/blogs Many of the school’s faculty are sharing their expertise and perspective through blogs that cover topics including business news, politics, teaching, editing, service, the open source movement and emerging technology. Connecting Dean Jean Folkerts keeps students, alumni and professionals up to date on happenings in the school and why it’s important. Her blog also allows her to discuss what she takes in from her travels around the state, U.S. and world. Talk Politics Authored by Leroy Towns, professor and research fellow in the UNC Program on Public Life, this blog examines the intersection of politics and media. Graduate and undergraduate students are often invited to post, allowing different voices in the school to be heard and giving students a chance to write for new media.
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Membership in the Advertising Club continues to reach record levels. The club holds an advertising symposium every spring that attracts more than 100 students and 25 professionals to discuss career issues. Panelists came from various agencies and organizations that include McKinney, Crispin Porter, Capstrat, the Carolina Hurricanes, and the NBA among others.
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The advertising program fielded a competitive team for the national American Advertising Federation competition and developed a new program called “Workroom” where a select group of students developed a new fashion product and campaign involving a trip to New York where professionals judged the students. Students worked with Fox Sports and the Charlotte Bobcats on advertising assignments and participated in a special workshop with McKinney advertising on a first-of-its-kind account planning seminar for students.
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Talking Biz News Chris Roush, Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Scholar in Business Journalism and director of the Carolina Business News Initiative, discusses happenings in the world of business journalism, regularly posting multiple items a day.
The Real Paul Jones Paul Jones is a clinical associate professor in the school and director of ibiblio.org, a contributorrun digital library. His ever-growing blog focuses on the open source movement, new media, emerging technology and everything in between. From the Editor’s Desk From the desk of assistant professor Andy Bechtel, writing and copy editing in the day’s news are put under the microscope. Whether it be style or content, Bechtel pulls from the most recent and pertinent publications.
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Chuck Stone’s dream of diversity lives on
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Chuck Stone, UNC journalism professor emeritus, legendary journalist, editor, author and Tuskegee Airman, no longer walks the halls of Carroll on his way to classes. However, Chuck’s life-long work of encouraging minorities to pursue careers in journalism is still very much alive. The Chuck Stone Program for Diversity in Education and Media held its third annual workshop from July 19–25, 2009 in the J-school. The workshop, made possible by a grant from the Gannett Foundation and the support from the N.C. Scholastic Media Association, brought together promising high school students interested in journalism. The number of students applying for the program has increased each year – a result of the growing national awareness of the workshop among high school newspaper advisers. Assistant professor Napoleon Byars is the director of the Chuck Stone Program. The 2009 workshop class consisted of 12 students from underrepresented populations on major college campuses. As part of the application process,
students wrote essays on diversity and their desire to become communicators. “Writing is my passion,” wrote one student. “I love it. I love how when you read a feature article and your nose starts to tingle and your eyes water because you are so compelled at what the writer is showing you. That’s why I am so passionate about writing. I want to be a journalist that can make a difference.” The students were immersed in journalism from the time they arrived on campus until they departed six days later. They assembled a newspaper staff that wrote stories, cutlines and headlines, took pictures and did layout. Additionally, students chronicled their impressions of the program in a blog. By the final day of the workshop they had produced volume three of The Mix, the official workshop publication. In all, 19 stories were assigned, researched, written, proofread and edited by the students. The Mix included an interview with Stone, student profiles and a story on The Daily Tar Heel campus newspaper.
Students also wrote a dance review and a book review. Vivian Bonilla Lopez, a student from Puerto Rico, wrote a timely commentary on Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s “wise Latina woman” remark. Lopez’s insightful comments confirmed the learning and solid journalism that took place during the workshop. Students were taught to conduct research online and check sources, do interviews, write leads and eliminate biased language from news writing. Additionally, they were introduced to AP style and given copy editing drills. They also took the spelling and grammar test that every Carolina J-school student must pass in order to graduate.
The Future of News Assistant professor Ryan Thornburg, an online newsroom veteran, blogs about journalism innovation, leadership, research and editorial product development.
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Blue Highways Journal Each summer since 2001, Jock Lauterer, director of the Carolina Community Media Project, has taken his “Community Journalism Roadshow” to small newspapers from Murphy to Manteo. In the Blue Highways Journal, Lauterer documents the project’s work across North Carolina.
Students in the program interned during 2009 at the business desks of newspapers such as The Charlotte Observer, the Sacramento Bee and The St. Petersburg Times, as well as Bloomberg News. In the past year, graduates have accepted reporting positions at Bloomberg and Reuters.
The journalism foundation: The School of Journalism Foundation of North Carolina was incorporated with McPherson as president. The foundation collected money to advance journalism at the school, including student financial aid, chaired professorships and equipment. The foundation continues to fulfill this mission today.
Students interviewed Chuck Stone during the program.
the program evaluation form. “I never thought that I would learn so much about something I loved. If I could do this again, I would do it in a heartbeat. “ “The experience was amazing,” wrote another student. “I learned so much over this past week, and I can’t wait to apply it.” Forty-four students have graduated from the program since 2007, and seven are currently students at UNC. Of those that have graduated from high school, all have gone on to attend college. The Chuck Stone Program is making a difference promoting diversity in education and journalism.
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creativity in mind,” wrote one student. “Now I blog with what I’ve learned about journalism in mind.” Not only is the program achieving national awareness in high schools, it was recognized during the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2009 convention as a top program in the Scholastic Journalism Division. Students who attended the workshop came away with improved communication skills and a greater appreciation of journalism principles and values. “This was a great experience,” wrote a student on
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Dale Harrison, director of the Sunshine Center, gave a presentation on the First Amendment and the legal and ethical issues that journalists frequently encounter. Cami Marshall, an AfricanAmerican graduate of UNC, spoke about the drive and professionalism required to be successful in the TV news business. Marshall, a news producer with WFMY in Greensboro, N.C., is a persuasive example of the success of Gannett’s Leadership & Diversity Initiative and Talent Development Program. Craig Lindsey, movie reviewer for The News & Observer, offered perspective on the demands and challenges of reviewing movies and other forms of entertainment. The students also observed a DTH newspaper budget meeting and listened intently while editors discussed story placement. The workshop blog allowed students to experience the satisfaction of instant publishing. They also gained an appreciation of the need for accuracy, balance, completeness and fairness while blogging. “I used to blog with only
The business journalism program graduated 12 students with a certificate in business journalism in May 2009.
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Fortune’s Sloan bullish on careers in business journalism
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Careers in business journalism will be greater for current college students than those who have been in the field for decades, said Fortune senior editor-atlarge Allan Sloan – one of the country’s top business journalists – in an October 2009 speech. “You really ought to seriously think of business writing because it’s fun and useful and you can get a job in it,” said Sloan to a group of 42 university students from 11 universities across the country. Sloan was speaking at a conference called “Getting Started in Business News” held at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. The event was organized by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Sloan said that becoming a business journalist was the “third best thing that ever happened to me,” behind his marriage to his wife, Nancy, and the birth of his children. He noted that the job opportunities in the field are much better than 1969, when he was assigned to the business desk of The Charlotte Observer after working on the sports desk. “It turned out to be endless fun. This was really interesting stuff. On a routine basis, I’m dealing with the most powerful people in Charlotte, and they have to worry about it.” Adding that business journalism “has gone mainstream,” Sloan said that he can’t believe that his employers for the past four decades have paid him to work as a business reporter. Despite turmoil in the journalism industry, Sloan said he believed one of the students in the audience Thursday night would find a solution and make money putting journalism online. “I entrust you to do it,” he said. With six awards, Sloan has won more Gerald Loeb Awards – considered the Pulitzer Prize for business journalism – than anyone else. Before working at Fortune, he worked as a Wall Street columnist for Newsweek magazine. He has also worked for Newsday, Forbes, Money and the Detroit Free Press. In 2001, Sloan received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
The past year saw the launch of the College Business Journalism Consortium. The consortium’s goal is to make it easier for college students to find jobs in business journalism – and for business journalism to have a centralized Web site from which to review potential job and internship applicants. Student work can be found at cbjc.jomc.unc.edu. The quality of the program can be seen in the student business journalism contest held by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. For the fourth time in the contest’s fiveyear existence, a Carolina journalism student has won the competition. The winners in 2008 were senior Catarina Saraiva in the professional publication category and junior Laura Marcinek for the student publication category. A Carolina student finished second in the one year that a UNC student did not win the contest. In addition, the program developed a workshop for college students across the country interested in a career in business journalism. That workshop, held Oct. 22–24 in New York, was funded by a grant from Progress Energy and included interviews for the students with major business media organizations. This past year saw an international touch, with a business journalism professor from the University of Navarra visiting for two weeks to teach the classes in the program. This exchange will continue in 2010. Also, the program will unveil a business journalism stylebook to the U.S. business journalism community in 2010.
Career Services In the teeth of the Great Recession, students and new graduates persevered and many succeeded in landing tough-to-get internships and entry-level jobs. Coaching graduating seniors on strategies to gain full-time jobs and working with all students on securing internships that give vital real-world experience are two of the major functions of the school’s career services office. Career services also works with alumni seeking new jobs and helps both alumni and students with resume and cover letter critiques.
Networking with school alumni is also a major focus of the career services office. Newspapers, newswires, public relations and advertising agencies continued to conduct on-campus interviews for both summer internships and full-time positions, though the number of such recruiting visits is lower due to economic constraints. Among those interviewing were Bloomberg; the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; The St. Petersburg Times; American City Business Journals; The (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record; The Charlotte Observer; Exxon Mobil; The Detroit News; August Jackson; MLB.com and Ogilvy. Students landed internships with a range of employers that include McKinney advertising; Capstrat marketing communications; MTV News; Fox Business Channel; Bloomberg; NBC News; Nordstrom’s; the Philadelphia 76ers; O Magazine; Conde Nast; The (Charleston, S.C.) Post & Courier; the Gaston Gazette; The Chapel Hill News and Ogilvy.
Graduates from the 2009 class are working for ESPN; National Geographic; Politico. com; Ogilvy; Resolute Communications; Lowe’s Companies; Americorps; Teach for America; Bloomberg; Tag Worldwide; The (Myrtle Beach, S.C.) Sun News; The (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record; The Charlotte
In July 2008, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation selected the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication to join 10 other top journalism schools for an initiative to adapt journalism education to the challenges of a struggling news industry.
The department becomes a school: On Sept. 1, 1950, the department became the School of Journalism with Coffin as dean. Journalism faculty members were not sold on the idea and Coffin was indifferent to being a dean.
The Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education encourages experimental journalism projects, curriculum enhancement and collaboration with other academic disciplines and institutions. The journalism school is building international partnerships, providing students with global perspectives on journalism. The school hosted a meeting Oct. 4–5, 2009, of deans from journalism programs participating in the initiative. The semiannual meetings of the deans are meant to develop a vision of what a journalism school can be at a higher learning institution. The meeting hosted by continued on page 50
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The school’s 2009 senior survey showed that almost 75 percent of those responding either had jobs upon graduation or had strong job prospects. Close to 50 percent of the graduating seniors responded to the survey. Almost 31 percent of the seniors reported having a fulltime position upon graduation, and 63 percent of those without a firm job offer reported having strong job prospects.
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The number of unpaid internships that require students to receive academic credit continues to grow. The school offers “JOMC 394; Mass Communication Practicum” through which students received academic credit for internships in the fall, spring or summer. In summer 2009, 76 students received academic credit for their internships. Fifty-two students received credit for spring 2009 internships and 51 students in fall 2008.
Observer; Regal Literary; McKinney; Edelman; Text 100 Global Public Relations; U.S. Sen. Richard Burr; N.C. Gov. Beverly Perdue; Cosmopolitan; MS&L Worldwide; The Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune; Children’s Defense Fund; Exxon Mobil; Eurosport and NBC Sports.
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37th Frame The 37th Frame, Carolina photojournalism’s annual student-run photo contest and exhibit, features the best student work from the past year. The exhibition featured 50 single images and five photo stories selected from more than 500 photos and more than 20 photo stories. The images were judged by a panel of professional journalists from The News & Observer and the Durham Herald-Sun. “Our students produce compelling, real life photojournalism,” said associate professor Pat Davison. “Their work reflects humanity in a unique and intimate way.” The following are some of the images featured in the 37th Frame exhibition.
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Jim Whitaker holds a paint brush in his mouth while opening a new can of paint. Whitaker is a deck hand on a shrimp boat.
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Cassie Butler Jody Murtagh, the huntsman of Moore County Hounds Foxhunting Association, unboxes foxhounds in Southern Pines, N.C. The foxhunting season in Southern Pines officially begins Thanksgiving Day and ends in March, though the hounds start exercising as early as August.
Selket Guzman Surin Jaitrong takes the role of the babysitter in his small Thai community. Even though there is no relation, Jaitrong cares for the children as if they were his own. Colleen Vasu High school freshman Pate Tremont enjoys an evening jump on his trampoline at Topsail Beach, N.C.
Courtney Potter A volunteer ladles soup for several dozen homeless people to receive lunch in Naples, Fla. The soup kitchen provides more than 120,000 meals each year, seven days a week, for Collier County’s homeless community.
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Kate Napier Wide receiver Kenton Thornton, a junior from Dallas, Texas, runs onto the field with his team members at the start of the UNC football home game against Virginia Tech. Arkasha Stevenson
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Gay Pride Parade attendees watch as “Gay Jesus� roller skates down Ninth Street in Durham. Durham holds one of the few Gay Pride celebrations in the southeast. It was estimated that more than 7,000 attended.
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Tiffany Devereux Cricket player Rex Young watches his teammate on the pitch during a weekly match at Prince Andrews school on the island of St. Helena. As a British overseas territory, the island has a 400-year association with Great Britain. The Saints, as the islanders call themselves, have a passion for British sports and share many other cultural traditions.
Eli Sinkus Danny Mason steps up to the microphone at Fuse, a bar in Chapel Hill. Mason is a staple of Chapel Hill and can be seen playing music all over town. “My escape is music,� he said.
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Eileen Mignoni A couple embraces during a fireworks show at the N.C. State Fair.
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A bird lays limp in the grass after striking the windshield of a passing car in Chapel Hill, N.C.
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the school focused on the final products of the News21 program, an experimental online news endeavor. A dinner at the Carolina Inn brought together the Carnegie-Knight deans, school faculty members and students, UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp, and a group of international journalists participating in the Edward R. Murrow Program.
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The school is expanding undergraduate research through the Carnegie-Knight Initiative. Richard Cole Eminent Professor Dan Riffe is collaborating with the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science on a survey research course to conduct public opinion polling in North Carolina. The school also will use the grant to build on interdisciplinary programs in media law and policy, and digital media economics.
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During spring and summer 2009, 10 Carolina journalism students and two faculty members led the News21 experimental reporting project Powering a Nation, which explores U.S. energy use and its relationship to the country’s demographics. News21 – short for News for the 21st Century: Incubators of New Ideas – allows schools to undertake national reporting projects that seek to change the media landscape with innovative approaches to creating and distributing news while deepening the intellectual life at journalism schools and creating a stronger voice for them in the news industry. With an initial $250,000 grant to Carolina, the UNC Office of the Chancellor has agreed to match the Carnegie and Knight grants, pledging support for the third and final year of the initiative. The Carnegie-Knight Initiative was launched in 2005 with the Carnegie Corp. of New York president Vartan Gregorian’s vision of building globally-minded programs at exemplary journalism schools – a goal shared by the Knight Foundation. The effort encourages experimentation within journalism education and
the integration of other programs within the university community. In addition to Carolina, multi-year grants were awarded to: Arizona State University Columbia University Northwestern University Syracuse University University of California at Berkeley University of Maryland University of Missouri University of Nebraska, Lincoln University of Southern California University of Texas at Austin The Joan Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy, a research center at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, also is supported by the initiative. The Carnegie Corporation of New York was created by Carnegie Steel Company owner Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding. For more than 95 years, the grant-making corporation has carried out Carnegie’s vision of philanthropy by building on his two major concerns: international peace and advancing education and knowledge. Since 1950, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has promoted journalism excellence worldwide and invested in the vitality of the U.S. communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. The Knight Foundation focuses on ideas and projects that create transformational change.
Carolina Community Media Project Since 2001, the Carolina Community Media Project, led by founding director Jock Lauterer, has focused on building strong communities across the state by strengthening local newspapers and their Web sites. Last year, Lauterer visited eight more N.C. community papers with free, on-site journalism workshops, bringing the total of the annual “Johnny Appleseed Summer Community Journalism Roadshow” to 138 papers, literally from Murphy to Manteo.
In addition the Community Media Project: • Entered the fourth year of producing the Carrboro Commons, a twice-monthly Web-based newspaper for Carrboro created by community journalism students. This collaborative experiential learning project involves students producing copy and photos that are edited by assistant professor Andy Bechtel’s advanced editing class and assistant professor Ryan Thornburg’s online newswriting and editing class. • Mentored the Carrboro High School journalism class in a journalism “Big Buddies”-style program, now in its third year to help with the school newspaper, the Jagwire. The project also brought together the Jagwire and the Carrboro Citizen newspaper, the latter of which now provides a free school news page to Carrboro High School. • Helped create, plan, administer and teach at the eighth annual North Carolina Newspaper Academy, a daylong, mid-career workshop hosted each spring by the school and co-sponsored by the N.C. Press Association • Administered the Peggy Allen Community Scholarship, created five years ago to fund a summer internship for an outstanding UNC community journalism student at one of the state’s finer community papers.
The state-of-the-art studio allows for live and pre-recorded interviews utilizing high-definition cameras. An adjacent control room handles technical operations for interviews in the studio. Since opening in 2008, the studio has enabled the University and school to extend its educational mission beyond the classroom by reaching millions of people at once. Faculty experts are positioning the school at the center of public debate about important issues, which have included the presidential primaries, the general election and the future of newspapers.
Faculty and students also use the studio to participate in video conferences with other universities and organizations.
Carolina News Studio The Carolina News Studio is a partnership between the school and the Office of University Relations funded by the University’s provost office. The studio provides faculty and administrators opportunities to share their expertise with national and international TV networks, cable or local TV stations, and radio stations.
Center for Media Law and Policy The Center for Media Law and Policy is a collaborative initiative of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at
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Through the studio, school faculty members have appeared on CNN, CNBC, WBUR Boston, Radio West, Wisconsin Public Radio and WFCR, among other major broadcast organizations. The studio is a resource for students working with the ABC News on Campus bureau based in the school, and it hosted student interviews with visitors to the school including Hulu CEO Jason Kilar, ESPN anchor Jessie Palmer and Chapel Hill mayoral candidates.
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In addition to supporting the state’s 192 community newspapers with consultation and workshops, this year the project spearheaded an especially exciting and challenging urban youth journalism project in inner-city Durham: the creation and launch of the Northeast Central Durham Community VOICE, which, after a year and a half of community organizing, debuted as a Web bi-weekly in September 2009 at durhamvoice.org. (See story on page 56.)
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Chapel Hill. Now in its third year, the center is a forum for study and debate about the important media law and policy issues facing North Carolina and the nation.
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Luxon becomes dean: In April, Coffin resigned for health reasons. By August, the search for a new dean narrows to Walter Spearman and Norval Neil Luxon, who had a Ph.D. from UCLA and was an assistant to the president of Ohio State University. McPherson again raised the threat of supporting a Duke program if the University did not hire Luxon. Luxon became dean on Dec. 1.
In 2009, the center appointed a 15-person advisory board composed of N.C. media attorneys, media professionals and scholars. The board met in January 2009 to help draft a mission statement for the center and to plan programs. In the spring, the deans of the schools of journalism and law appointed professor Cathy Packer to serve as the center’s first faculty director. Packer teaches media law in the journalism school. The center’s programs included an all-day, campus-wide First Amendment Day celebration on Oct. 1, 2009. Funded with a grant from the Liberty Tree Initiative and planned with help from the Campus Y, First Amendment Day included formal and informal events to encourage students both to celebrate their First Amendment rights and to think seriously about the role the First Amendment plays in their lives at Carolina.
The center also brought several nationally prominent media law experts to campus, including James Boyle, the William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School and cofounder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, and Miriam Nisbet, President Obama’s Freedom of Information Act ombudsman.
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The school launched in fall 2009 a curriculum that sets a new course for journalism and mass communication education. Taking into account changes in the industry, the curriculum emphasizes a wider variety of channels to communicate. The new curriculum is the product of intensive research and discussion with students, faculty, alumni, academic peers and professionals working in the journalism and communication industries. The five “sequences”– news-editorial, public relations, advertising, electronic communication and visual communication – have been collapsed into two tracks that will prepare students for careers in journalism or strategic communication.
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The journalism track is designed for students who wish to become journalists, that is, who want to broadcast, report, write, photograph and present news and information to better inform society.
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The strategic communication track is for students who wish to communicate on behalf of organizations, including corporations, government agencies, nonprofit and advocacy groups, and public relations and advertising agencies. The school’s core courses – News Writing, Professional Problems and Ethics, and Introduction to Mass Communication Law – remain the same. Students need to master the core principles of journalism education while developing the skills and perspectives to communicate across various media platforms.
The UNC Center for Media Law and Policy sponsored First Amendment Day at Carolina, which included the planting of the UNC Liberty Tree.
All students must be able to conceptualize and produce quality news and information. And they must understand the role of media in society and its social, economic and political impact locally, nationally and globally.
The school is holding true to the core principles of journalism education while preparing students to succeed in today’s – and tomorrow’s – changing media environment.
Distance Education Throughout 2009, the school crafted a proposal to offer a full master’s degree online. If approved, the Master of Arts in Technology and Communication (MATC) will offer a rigorous and in-depth study of the evolving communication field and the technological developments that drive it. The curriculum will focus on digital media concepts and skills. The degree will be aimed at working professionals, including school alumni, who want to continue their educations but need the flexibility a distance learning format provides. Proposed courses include: • New Media and Society • Research Methods and Applications • Media Law for the Digital Age • Visual Communication and Information Architecture • Usability and Web Design • Writing for Digital Media • Database and Web Research: Strategies for Finding Information Online • Leadership in Digital Media Economics
For more information about the MATC program, please visit jomc.unc.edu/onlinemasters.
Electronic Communication The past year has been another successful one for the school’s electronic communication students and faculty.
“Carolina Week” took top honors in the National Broadcasting Society competition, along with three other editions of the newscast taking national finalist honors. The radio program “Carolina Connection” was also recognized as best in the country by NBS. Three students were individual national winners, and the program accounted for 10 other national finalist nods in various categories. Collectively, the TV program, the radio program and individual students have accounted for more than 70 awards in the past year and more than 400 regional and national awards since 2000, the year the TV newscast began. The radio program became part of the school’s efforts in continued on page 56
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The MATC builds on the success of the online Certificate in Technology and Communication, a unique, graduate-level program that offered its first courses in spring 2003. The certificate will continue to be offered and will be made up of three courses – “Writing for Digital Media,” “Usability and Web Design” and “Database and Web Research.”
The school placed third in the Hearst Intercollegiate Broadcast News Championship. That marks the seventh year in a row the school has been in the top three. Carly Swain placed first in the Society of Professional Journalists general news reporting competition, and the radio program “Carolina Connection” was a national finalist in that category. Jason Kahn was a national finalist for TV sports reporting and TV sports photography; Jennifer Carpenter was a national finalist in the TV news videography category. Carpenter also landed a prestigious fellowship with the Fulbright Foundation and will spend a year in Albania documenting social changes among Albanian youth.
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• Strategic Communication in the Digital Age
Students continue to excel in regional and national competitions. Students representing the school’s twice-weekly television newscast picked up the program’s sixth EMMY award. This one was for the news special about the death of Student Body President Eve Carson.
Shar-Narne’ Flowers, UNC News Services Jeremy Spearman, Lauren McGaha and Christina Monseratte film a segment of Carolina Week in the broadcast studio.
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he school made significant changes to the curriculum in fall 2009. The new curriculum takes into account significant changes in the industry, including the move toward increased use of a wider variety of channels to communicate to important publics and stakeholders.
G oa l s 1 To enable students to understand the roles of media in society and media’s social, economic and political impacts locally, nationally and globally. 2 To enable students to conceptualize and produce news and information.
Journalism Curriculum
Curriculum Core 141 Professional Problems and Ethics 153 News Writing
Students learn to write, report, broadcast, photograph and present news and information. The public needs quality information from independent media now more than ever to better inform society and strengthen our democracy.
340 Introduction to Mass Communication Law
Advertising / Public Relations Curriculum
Quick View JOMC Core 10 credits News Writing (4); Ethics (3); Law (3) Journalism or Advertising/Public Relations Core 6 credits Specialization 12 credits Issues Immersion Modules 6 credits
34 credits total Students may take up to 40 credit hours. Students may choose to specialize further than is required by completing the requirements for a certificate in Sports Communication or Business Journalism or by taking additional electives in any specialization.
Students learn to develop persuasive advertising messages or focus on strategic communication for an organization. Corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, advocacy groups, PR firms and ad agencies need a new breed of communicator who can use new media effectively within an ethical framework.
journalism SPECIALIZATIONS:
journalism Core (Prerequisites in parentheses) 221 Audio-Video Information Gathering (153) 253 Reporting (153) Students are encouraged to take 221 and 253 simultaneously. Editing and graphic design students substitute 157 News Editing for 253.
(Required courses in bold) Editing and Graphic Design (four-course minimum)
182 Introduction to Graphic Design (school permission) 253 Reporting (153) 457 Advanced Editing (157) 463 Newsdesk: Online News Production 482 Newspaper Design (182, 153 or concurrent 153 enrollment) 483 Magazine Design (482 or 153) 484 Information Graphics (182) 187 Introduction to Multimedia Electronic Communication (four-course minimum)
immersions Conceptualizing the Audience 376 Sports Marketing and Advertising 445 Process and Effects of Mass Communication 475 Concepts of Marketing 490 Special Topics in Mass Communication (when appropriate) Mass Communication Theory 240 Current Issues in Mass Communication 445 Process and Effects of Mass Communication 490 Special Topics in Mass Communication (when appropriate) History, Law and Regulation 242 The Mass Media and United States History 342 The Black Press and United States History 424 Electronic Media Management and Policy 428 History of Broadcasting 450 Business and the Media 458 Southern Politics: Critical Thinking and Writing 490 Special Topics in Mass Communication (when appropriate) Communication Online 349 Introduction to Internet Issues and Concepts 449 Blogging, Smart Mobs and We the Media 490 Special Topics in Mass Communication (when appropriate) Diversity 342 The Black Press and United States History
441 Diversity and Communication 442 Women and Mass Communication 443 Latino Media Studies 446 International Communication 490 Special Topics in Mass Communication (when appropriate) Political Communication 244 Talk Politics: An Introduction to Political Communication 446 International Communication and Comparative Journalism 447 International Media Studies 458 Southern Politics: Critical Thinking and Writing 475 Concepts of Marketing 490 Special Topics in Mass Communication (when appropriate) Communication, Business and Entrepreneurship 424 Electronic Media Management and Policy 450 Business and the Media 475 Concepts of Marketing 490 Special Topics in Mass Communication (when appropriate) Sports Communication 245 Sports and the Media 376 Sports Marketing and Advertising 377 Sports Communication 455 Sports Writing 476 Ethical Issues and Sports Communication 490 Special Topics in Mass Communication (when appropriate)
422 Producing Television News or 426 Producing Radio 121 Writing for the Electronic Media 421 Electronic Journalism (121, 221) 422 Producing Television News (421 & instructor permission) 423 Television News and Production Management (422 & instructor permission) 424 Electronic Media Management and Policy 425 Voice and Diction 426 Producing Radio (121) 427 Studio Production for Television News (221) 428 Broadcast History Multimedia (four-course minimum)
187 Introduction to Multimedia (school permission) 580 Intermediate Multimedia (187) 581 Multimedia Design (187 or instructor permission) 582 Interactive Multimedia Narratives (180 or 187, school permission) or 583 Multimedia Programming and Production (187 & school permission) Photojournalism (four-course minimum)
180 Beginning Photojournalism (school permission) 480 Advanced Photojournalism (180 and 153 or concurrent 153 enrollment) 481 Documentary Photojournalism (480) 582 Interactive Multimedia Narratives (180 or 187) Reporting (four-course minimum)
157 News Editing (153) 121 Writing for the Electronic Media 256 Feature Writing (153) 258 Editorial Writing (153) 451 Economics Reporting (153) 452 Business Reporting (153) 453 Advanced Reporting (153, 253) 454 Advanced Feature Writing (153, 256) 456 Magazine Writing and Editing (153, 256) 457 Advanced Editing (157) 459 Community Journalism (153) 463 Newsdesk: Online News Production (instructor permission) 491 Special Skills in Mass Communication (when appropriate)
ADVERTISING/PUBLIC RELATIONS SPECIALIZATIONS: (Required courses in bold) Advertising (four-course minimum)
Honors 691H Introductory Honors 692H Honors Essay
271 Advertising Copy and Communication (137) 272 Advertising Media (137) 472 Art Direction in Advertising (137 & 271) 473 Advertising Campaigns (271 or 272) 670 Special Topics in Advertising Public Relations (four-course minimum)
advertising / public relations Core (Prerequisites in parentheses) 137 Principles of Advertising and Public Relations 279 Advertising and Public Relations Research (137)
232 Public Relations Writing (137 & 153) 431 Case Studies in Public Relations (137) 434 Public Relations Campaigns (431 or 232) 182 Introduction to Graphic Design 187 Introduction to Multimedia 333 Video Communication for Public Relations and Advertising (137) 433 Crisis Communication (431, 137) 491 Special Skills in Mass Communication (when appropriate) Strategic Communication (four-course minimum)
232 Public Relations Writing (137 & 153) 271 Advertising Copy and Communication (137) 272 Advertising Media (137) 431 Case Studies in Public Relations (137) 490 Special Topics in Mass Communication (when appropriate)
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1954–1959 Adding graduate studies: Luxon hired faculty members with doctoral degrees to bolster the school’s academic standing and to staff the graduate program he would create. The master’s of arts program began in 1955, and the first M.A. degree was awarded in 1957.
2004. Viewers in a 16-county area in north central North Carolina can see the news program on Time Warner Cable, and WCHL airs the radio program on Saturday mornings. Both shows are available at carolinaweek.org.
Graduate Program
Carolina is one of six universities to house bureaus of ABC News on Campus. Four students work part-time for ABC, and others supply material for a number of different ABC platforms, including “Good Morning America” and “ABC News Now.” The school has just finished converting television studio and control room equipment to high definition.
Doctoral graduates accepted professorships at institutions including Texas Christian University, The American University in Cairo, Louisiana State University, Texas Tech University, Radford University and University of North Dakota. One accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at the Baylor College of Medicine.
Nine doctoral and 11 master’s students have graduated from the school’s graduate program since December 2008.
Students graduating from the master’s program have taken jobs at organizations including
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The Northeast Central Durham VOICE
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The Carolina Community Media Project spearheaded an urban youth journalism project in inner-city Durham with the launch of the Northeast Central Durham Community VOICE that debuted as a Web-exclusive bi-weekly in September 2009 at durhamvoice.org. Carolina Community Media Project director Jock Lauterer partnered with the journalism program at N.C. Central University, the city of Durham, several local NGOs, neighborhood civic, school and church leaders, and the UNC Department of City and Regional Planning to bring to the table many disparate “voices” from Jock Lauterer Durham to form once VOICE. The project recruited the VOICE’s urban youth staff during the spring and summer of 2009 primarily through a series of free, on-site photography lessons taught at three separate local venues in Northeast Central Durham: the Salvation Army Boys’ and Girls’ Club, Seesaw Studio and the Durham Inner-City Garden. The goals of the VOICE are far-reaching. Not only to produce a neighborhood community newspaper/Web site staffed by local urban youth to provide neighborhood news, information and features specifically for and about residents of VOICE staffers
(but not limited to) the 300-block area of Northeast Central Durham, but also: • to provide a timely source of information and a venue for localized discussion to promote civic engagement and positive community identity for the neighborhood known as “the Bull’s Eye” to the Durham Police Department and Durham community development advocates
The Charlotte Observer, Voice of America, National Public Radio affiliate WAMU, RTI International, Action for Children NC, Elon University and Duke University. Other students in the program completed internships with organizations and newspapers that include McKinney advertising, China Internet Information Center, the Chapel Hill News and the Carolina Alumni Review, among others. In fall 2009, assistant professor Barbara Friedman became the master’s program adviser, replacing associate professor Lois Boynton.
from across the U.S., international students from Australia and Uzbekistan were part of this year’s incoming class. The 13th class of Roy H. Park Fellows entered the school in fall 2009. The Triad Foundation generously funds the Park Fellowships, given to eight entering doctoral students and 14 entering master’s students each year. Other graduate students receive funding from various scholarships and fellowships that include the Peter DeWitt Pruden Jr. and Phyllis Harrill Stancill Pruden Fellowship, the Graduate Dean’s Research Assistantship, and the Richard Cole Eminent Professor graduate assistantship.
1958 J-school wins accreditation: The school was accredited by the American Council on Education for Journalism (ACEJ). Luxon’s leadership was commended, and the school was lauded for its standing within the University, its relationship with state newspapers and high student morale.
The graduate program welcomed 35 new students in fall 2009. In addition to students
because of the high incidence of crimes, drive-by shootings, gunshot reports and density of known gang members’ homes. • to provide urban youth with leadership, problem-solving and interpersonal skills as well as the self-confidence to address issues in their community and to see how they relate to the broader city, nation and world.
J-school student Taylor Meadows (right) teaches Levelle Muhammad photography at the Durham Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club.
Additionally, students from both NCCU and UNC are mentoring the young staff of the VOICE. By providing these youth with college-aged mentors, the VOICE aims to serve as a living classroom, a positive and productive vehicle for personal change, a bridge to higher education, and a real step toward career building. Additionally, by giving this community a home-grown local newspaper and Web site, the VOICE will provide a timely source of information unavailable anywhere else from a single source, thus promoting local pride, a sense of positive identity, and ultimately community-building and civic engagement.
To support this initiative, the project secured a $25,000 grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation enabling the purchase of computers, cameras and other newsroom equipment. In addition, the Ron Paris Fund, created last year to honor the long-time Rutherford County community newspaper editor and publisher, supported the summer photo lessons and exhibits. Enabled by a pledge of free printing from The Daily Tar Heel, the VOICE added a monthly print version in spring 2010. The 24-page tabloid format newspaper is distributed free at local schools, churches and neighborhood businesses.
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• and to expand the education and career options of the participating young people.
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• to empower the youth with writing, photography and media technology skills so they will be able to effectively use their voices in civic discussions.
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A new home in Howell: The school moved into Howell Hall, and a formal dedicated was held on Oct. 21. Clifton Daniel, assistant managing editor of The New York Times and a graduate of the school, spoke at the dedication.
ibiblio ibiblio, a joint effort of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the School of Information and Library Science, is a contributor-run digital library and archive that helps people who want to share information freely and openly. More than 15 years ago, ibiblio, then Sunsite, was one of the first Internet servers created. ibiblio now hosts thousands of collections and serves millions of requests per day. Among the material ibiblio hosts are Project Gutenburg, a free book archive; etree. org, where fans of tape-friendly bands share concert music; information about charities and non-profits in North Carolina and worldwide; video documentaries of folk practice; educational sites and more. ibiblio also provides stable, continuous online streaming for six North Carolina-based nonprofit radio stations, including UNC’s WXYC 89.3 FM.
Information Technology
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The school’s information technology team continues to deploy technology enabling faculty and students to remain current in the changing media landscape.
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Carroll 268 is now a classroom equipped with 18 PCs (plus an instructor station) and is used for teaching research methods in advertising and public relations. The computer stations ring the perimeter of the room with a large table in the center for discussions and group work. Four 52" high-definition TVs were installed to display instructor presentations. Thanks to a grant from the SAS Institute, the school has access to SAS Text Miner, a state-ofthe-art text analysis tool. Carroll 340A, formerly home to several offices and a small workroom, was transformed into a 15-seat classroom with a Mac Mini and two 52" TVs for display. Carroll 21 was transformed from a student computer lab to a high-tech classroom with software enabling instructors to monitor, interact and assist with students’ work “live” on the computers in the classroom.
The information technology staff created a new, mobile, highly-flexible videoconference station that was used in classes throughout Carroll Hall. The school is preparing for a centrally supported Web conferencing tool, which will enhance opportunities for classroom instruction and will add an important synchronous component to distance learning. Work continued on the building of infrastructure for high-definition video editing. Fiber optic cable was pulled throughout the building and an Apple Xsan with ~30TB of storage was brought on line in July. The infrastructure is in place to allow HD video editing throughout the school. In addition, the Carolina Week studio and its equipment have been converted to HD.
Interdisciplinary Health Communication The Interdisciplinary Health Communication (IHC) program fosters a unique collaboration among students, faculty and the community. For example, faculty and students from the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, partnered with four county health directors to design and implement a campaign to encourage uptake of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine that prevents most cervical cancers. Funded by the state, the campaign targeted mothers of 11–12 year old girls with the slogans: “Help protect your daughter from cervical cancer. Vaccinate today. Protect her tomorrow.” and “You have hopes and dreams for her future and they don’t include cervical cancer.” The campaign ran in both English and Spanish from June through August 2009. Other IHC highlights for the year: • Four graduate students earned the Graduate Certificate in Interdisciplinary Health Communication. Amy Shirong Lu earned a doctoral degree and Courtney Woo a master’s degree in mass communication; Miriam Hartmann earned a master’s in public health from the Department of Maternal and Child Health, and Megan Van Noord earned a master’s degree from the School of Information and Library Science. continued on page 62
News21
Nacho Corbella As chairman of Wind Works, a wind farm development company, Cliff Etheredge introduced wind energy to the town of Roscoe, Texas. Landowners earn income for each turbine placed on their property and a percentage of the profits from the energy each turbine produces.
program, the project combines traditional journalism with photojournalism, infographics and multimedia within an in-depth Web site that explores America’s energy stories and introduces the people behind the energy debate. Working as a team, which included one student from Harvard University and another from the University of Missouri, each member contributed his or her media strengths to the project. “I had this realization early on – whatever we imagined, we had the skills to do it,”
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Energy makes America go. Where that energy comes from and the ways in which it is produced don’t appear on many Americans’ radar. During spring and summer 2009, ten Carolina journalism students and two faculty members led “Powering a Nation,” an experimental reporting endeavor seeking the truth about energy in the U.S. and its relationship to the country’s demographics. Part of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education’s News21
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Powering a Nation
Phil Daquila Wooden boardwalks connect the houses and community buildings in Newtok, Ala., instead of roads or sidewalks. The boardwalks keep residents from sinking into the muddy ground as they walk or ride around the village.
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Margaret Nickerson serves dried herring, pike, salmon and seal ribs to village children who have visited for lunch. The dried fish is dipped in seal oil, which is served in small plastic bowls.
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said “Powering a Nation” editor-in-chief and 2009 master’s graduate Sara Peach. “It was exhilarating.” And in keeping with the experimental nature of the project, many students were able to venture into new territories. “The project stretched my skills quite a bit,” Peach said. “I came into Carolina’s program as a writer and then took a couple of multimedia classes, but it wasn’t until this past summer that I really started to feel like my multimedia skills were on par with the writing.” Peach said the contacts she made through News21 have led to freelance work that includes both writing and multimedia.
Powering a Nation explores wind farms, the electrical grid, mountaintop removal, coal activists, religious response and biofuels, among other topics. The project has been recognized for excellence by the National Press Photographers Association. News21 is short for News for the 21st Century: Incubators of New Ideas. It seeks to deepen the intellectual life at journalism schools and create a stronger voice for them in the news industry. A key element is to seed innovative reporting on issues in ways that attract new and younger audiences. UNC is one of eight schools with News21 incubators.
Eileen Mignoni Joe Zweng cools his face on a hot Kentucky day. The men were dragging lengths of rope from pole to pole through overgrown meadows and across the small stream.
Eileen Mignoni Wes Waddle affixes rope to a bundle block so that it can be used as a pulley to feed rope and line along utility poles. Before the line is dragged, the block will be mounted to a length of 17 insulators, which hang from the utility pole.
Eileen Mignoni A standard H structure utility pole waits for its blocks to be mounted and its line to be pulled beneath the hot Kentucky sun.
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The school and civil rights: Lester Carson, the first black student in the school and one of the first black undergraduates at the University, graduated. Karen Parker, the first black female undergraduate student at UNC, enrolled.
• Three additional doctoral and master’s students enrolled in the IHC certificate program for a total of 12 students from four different academic units actively pursuing the certificate. • IHC certificate students and affiliated faculty presented research on message design and communication campaigns related to eating disorders, underage drinking and the HPV vaccine at three national and international conferences, including the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (Boston, Mass.), the Centers for Disease Control’s National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media (Atlanta, Ga.), and the International Society for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Research (London). • With UNC’s University Cancer Research Fund, the IHC co-sponsored a lecture on persuasion and health by Michael Slater, professor of Communication and College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Distinguished Professor at Ohio State University. • Planning for a new master’s degree in interdisciplinary health communication began.
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Carolina’s partnership with Apple’s iTunes allows students, faculty, alumni and people around the world to experience University programs, lectures, presentations, performances and debates. Through computers and iPods, parts of the Carolina experience now reach anywhere with an Internet connection. The J-school’s iTunes offerings include “Carolina Week” and “Carolina Connection” student newscasts, special events, guest lectures, class discussions, professional development seminars, symposiums and research colloquia. Visit itunes.unc.edu to access the content and subscribe to podcasts.
J-link Since the launch of the school’s online social network, J-link, in July 2008, more than 4,300 students and alumni have registered, creating profiles and connecting with others in the J-school community. J-link allows members to search the database to get the latest contact information on current students and alumni; post and read updates on career moves and personal news; and establish mentoring connections that facilitate corporate recruiting efforts and good jobs for graduates. Alumni with an existing account on the General Alumni Association’s Tar Nation log into J-link with the same Tar Nation username and password. Others can create an account directly on J-link. Join J-link, and stay connected.
M.A./J.D. Graduate Dual Degree Program in Mass Communication Law The school’s graduate-level dual degree program in mass communication law continues to thrive and currently has five students who are working toward completing the program and earning both their master’s and law (juris doctorate) degrees. Four of these students are completing the law school component of the program at the UNC law school and one is a law student at Duke University. The program is designed to allow dual degree students to complete the requirements for both degrees in approximately four years as opposed to the five years it would take to complete both degrees separately. The program works by allowing dual degree students to count some of their graduate journalism coursework toward their law degree and some of their law coursework toward their master’s degree. This past summer, current dual degree students successfully landed summer positions including clerkships at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and at one of the nation’s
most prestigious media law firms. In addition, current students continue to land important fellowships and scholarships including the Roy H. Park Fellowship awarded by the school and the Beverly Cooper Moore Scholarship awarded by the UNC Graduate School. The dual degree program considers applicants for admission each fall, and admissions decisions thus far have been highly selective. School faculty member Michael Hoefges and law school faculty member Deborah Gerhardt are serving as co-coordinators for the dual degree program.
Medical and Science Journalism Program Two years in the making, a documentary entitled “Environmental Heroes” aired on July 4, 2009, on “North Carolina Visions,” a film festival on North Carolina Public Television. The documentary profiled three North Carolinians who made extraordinary efforts to protect the natural environment.
Kathryn Barr, Jiang Li, Joseph Marra, Kevin Mckenna, Emily Waters and Sarah Whitmarsh; and scriptwriters Kelly Chi, Julia Connors and Maggie De Pano. Zachary Ferriola-Bruckenstein created the animation sequences. Linden and his research assistant Audrey Hill completed research on a book, “The New York Times Reader: Health and Medicine,” that will be published by CQ Press in 2010. The book includes more than 50 health and medical stories from The New York Times with extensive commentary by Linden. The book is part of a series from CQ Press that covers various specialty journalism beats, including arts and culture, sports, business and science. In 2009, master’s student Prashant Nair graduated from the program and joined the National Academy of Sciences as a member of the editorial staff. In fall 2009 two new master’s students entered the program to join two second-year students who will graduate in May 2010.
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Computer expert named new dean: University policy mandated that Luxon relinquish the deanship at age 65, so Wayne Danielson became dean on July 1. Danielson earned his doctorate from Stanford University and was a leading scholar in the emerging discipline of using computers in journalism.
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Gary Grant (top), who has worked for 30 years to protect minority communities from becoming dumping grounds for polluting industries, was featured in “Environmental Heroes.” The documentary was written and produced by students in professor Tom Linden’s (bottom) Science Television Documentary class.
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Thirteen students from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health worked on the program. They included segment producers Jessica Hughes, Julea Steiner and Sander; segment associate producers
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Independent producers Blair Pollock and Jim Sander also worked on the project. Executive producer was Tom Linden, director of the medical and science journalism program.
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The documentary was produced by students and faculty in the medical and science journalism program with additional help from videographers Martin Brown and George Bryant and music by Chris Frank of the Red Clay Ramblers.
remove any financial obstacle for students who wish to take advantage of these trips.
Students traveled to Chicago during fall break 2009.
Mentoring and Networking School alumni play an integral part in students’ development. Through networking events, trips and online forums, alumni help students make connections and learn more about their desired careers.
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Each semester, the school offers a networking trip to a major U.S. city for students to gain insight into job markets in different metropolitan centers. Selected students visit with professionals in their work places and attend a reception where they make valuable personal connections with school alumni.
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During the spring break trip to Washington, D.C., students visited alumni at National Geographic, the State Department, USA Today, The Washington Post, USAID, Voice of America and several other media outlets. The school hosted a reception at the Capitol Hill Visitors Center. For fall break, students traveled to Chicago and met with alumni at The Big Ten Network, ABC7 News, The Chicago Tribune, Leo Burnett, United Airlines, Walgreens, Weber-Shandwick and Manning, Selvage and Lee, among others. A reception and Carolina football watching party was held at a local sports bar. Students who participate in the networking trips pay $150 to help offset the cost of flights and lodging. Though many students get help paying for the trips from the Don and Barbara Curtis Excellence Fund for Extracurricular Student Activities and gifts from alumni Joe Nelson and Catherine Reuhl, the school is seeking funds to
The school’s Journalism Alumni and Friends Association hosts special events for students each semester. In February 2009, JAFA hosted a career panel discussion to help students cope with the new challenges of finding a job upon graduation. The panel included professionals representing Wildfire Advertising, Capstrat, Blue Water Outreach, UNC General Alumni Association, The Woodbine Agency, Dataflux and The Enquirer Journal. At the event, panelists shared insight on the finer points of networking, resumes, interviewing and closing the deal on an internship or job. In November 2009, several alumni returned to the school to participate in a career fair, where students could learn more about particular careers in media. Professionals in a variety of fields offered perspectives about the realities of their industries and what students should expect when entering the workforce after graduation. Students and alumni interact virtually through the school’s social networking Web site, J-link. With J-link, alumni can opt-in to become career mentors, and current students can search the database of available mentors. Each student can contact a potential mentor directly.
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Advertising hall of famer Bill Morton with Josh McCall, his successor as CEO of Jack Morton Worldwide.
Support the school’s Fund for the Future. Edward Kidder Graham taught UNC’s first journalism course in 1909. Four years later, as president of the University, he would enlist journalism classes in his drive to extend the boundaries of the campus to the boundaries of the state through public service. Graham’s vision for service lives today in the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The school has grown into a national leader in research and teaching and is helping media adapt during a time great change for the industry.
We are making news and shaping the future in a new century of journalism education.
In its centennial year, the school launched an ambitious
new curriculum, converted its television studio to high definition,
expanded its global reach and forged research partnerships to ensure that quality journalism thrives in the digital age. new
Please make a gift to support the school’s Fund for the Future. Your gift will support important opportunities for students such as student networking trips, innovative multimedia projects and meaningful international experiences.
Make a gift online at jomc.unc.edu/gift, or send your gift to: Speed Hallman Development and Alumni Affairs School of Journalism and Mass Communication UNC-Chapel Hill, CB 3365, Carroll Hall Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3365 Gifts of $1,000 or more in this centennial year qualify donors for Dean’s Circle recognition and a complimentary copy of Tom Bowers’ book “Making News: One Hundred Years of Journalism and Mass Communication Education at Carolina.”
Morton, a 1962 UNC alumnus, retired from Jack Morton Worldwide in 2003 after serving as chairman and CEO for the marketing agency since 1977.
Trip Park (left) with his parents, Roy and Tetlow Park, after the Next Generation Leadership Award ceremony.
Shape the Future
He transformed the company from a respected meetings and events firm into a global experiential marketing agency with more than 600 employees in offices around the world. While at the helm, Jack Morton Worldwide produced the 2004 Olympic Games’ opening and closing ceremonies in Athens, Greece. Trip Park is a commercial illustrator whose work has been featured in children’s books including “Gopher Up Your Sleeve” written by Tony Johnston; “Trout, Trout, Trout!” and “Ant, Ant, Ant!” written by April Pulley Sayre; and the Rotten School series written by R.L. Stine. Park graduated from the school in 1989 with a concentration in advertising. His editorial cartoons have appeared in the Greensboro News & Record, National Review and USA Today.
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Journalism Hall of Fame inductee Robert Ruark with Skipper Coffin, Walter Spearman and students.
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Morton Worldwide, respectively. Trip Park was recognized with the Next Generation Leadership Award. Ruark, a novelist, journalist and adventurer, began his career at the Hamlet News Messenger and the Sanford Herald, and later wrote for The Washington Post and The Washington Star before settling at the Washington Daily News. The 1935 Carolina grad also was well known for a regular column written for Field & Stream magazine. Ruark wrote 13 novels and was often compared to Ernest Hemmingway largely because of his love of big game hunting. Ruark died in 1965. The Robert Ruark Society of Chapel Hill presented its annual Robert Ruark Award in Creative Non-Fiction to a UNC student during the April ceremony.
Ruark brings the total membership of the N.C. Journalism Hall of Fame, founded in 1981, to 117. Morton is the 19th to be inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame since 1988. Park is the second person to be honored in as many years with the Next Generation Leadership Award.
N.C. Scholastic Media Association The principal activities of the N.C. Scholastic Media Association (NCSMA) are a statewide contest and critique service for high school journalists in the spring, an annual institute in summer and regional workshops in the fall. In 2009, NCSMA’s fall regional workshops were held in six locations across the state – Asheville at the University of North Carolina at Asheville; Boone at Appalachian State University; Chapel Hill at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Greenville at East Carolina University; Charlotte at The Charlotte Observer; and Greensboro at N.C. A&T State University. This year, more than 1,000 student journalists participated in the workshops. The summer N.C. Scholastic Media Institute provided four days of intense instruction in
yearbook, newspaper, broadcast, literary magazine, design, advising and photography for students and teachers from across the state. NCSMA continues to offer summer graduatelevel courses in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The 2009 course was “Desktop Publishing and Design in the Secondary School.” The class offers instruction in Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign, plus design principles and teaching methods. A self-paced study course, “Journalism Education in the Secondary School,” is offered online for N.C. high school journalism teachers. Teachers may take up to nine months to complete the online course. North Carolina is now in year two of the Journalism Education Association’s Mentoring Program. Kay Phillips, former NCSMA director, and Martha Rothwell, former NCSMA board member, are serving as the state’s mentors. Ravenscroft (Raleigh) School journalist Nicole Mortimer was named the 2009 Rachel RiversCoffey North Carolina High School Journalist of the Year, and was awarded a $2,000 scholarship given by the NCSMA and funded by the N.C. Press Foundation. Alternates were Alice Keyes of A.C. Reynolds High in Asheville and Tyler Holbrook of Wake Forest-Rolesville High in Raleigh, both winning $500 scholarships. The N.C. Press Foundation increased the scholarships from $500 and $200, respectively.
Taylor Swankie of First Flight High School in Kill Devil Hills won the 2009 Daily Tar Heel scholarship in newspaper journalism. These competitive $625 cash scholarships annually recognize up to two students in the newspaper program of the summer institute.
Adams takes over: John B. “Jack” Adams became dean after Wayne Danielson resigned to become dean of the School of Communications at the University of Texas.
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Erica Mesnard of T.C. Roberson High in Asheville won the 2009 Don Curtis scholarship in electronic communication. These competitive $625 cash scholarships annually recognize up to two students in the TV news program of the summer institute.
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Geoff Belcher, adviser at Wake Forest-Rolesville High in Raleigh, and Mark Harrison, adviser at T.C. Roberson High in Asheville, received NCSMA’s 2009 Kay Phillips Distinguished Service Award.
N.C. Scholastic Media Advisers Association board member Brenda Gorsuch was re-elected regional director for the national Journalism Education Association. NCSMA Director Monica Hill was elected secretary of the N.C. Open Government Coalition and was presented the Pioneer Award from National Scholastic Press Association.
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Incorporating technology: Adams purchased three electric typewriters for news editing courses. Newspapers were using this technology, and Adams wanted students to use it.
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Carolina Observatory on Corporate Reputation The Carolina Observatory on Corporate Reputation completed its first year in the J-school. The OCR consisted of 13 core members from the school and a media analyst team consisting of students from a variety of majors on campus: economics, geography, history, international relations, mathematics, political science and sociology.
the topics including ethics and corporate social responsibility; innovation and entrepreneurship; business-government relations (local, state, national and international); environmental performance, executive leadership and employee relations; and corporate litigation. Students wrote an industry report for state lawmakers dealing with news coverage of 30 leading North Carolina companies receiving prominent news coverage during the first three months of the economic decline.
Students were involved in ground-breaking research in literature reviews and article summaries, media monitoring, compiling corporate public health records (assessing the “health” of companies using publicly-available information), data visualization and manipulation, and writing case studies about N.C. companies operating at home and abroad. The research focused on various corporate reputation themes.
OCR students interned at APCO Worldwide (New York City), Capstrat (Raleigh, N.C.), KDPaine & Partners (Berlin, N.H.), Competitive Insights (Chicago), World Economic Forum (Davos, Switzerland), Country Music Hall of Fame (Nashville, Tenn.), Arrow Communications (Brussels, Belgium), SAS Institute (Cary, N.C.) and Lenovo/Fleishman Hilliard (Raleigh/New York City).
Students heard research presentations from doctoral students, faculty and visiting scholars from Finland, Spain and The Netherlands on various aspects of research methodology. The inaugural campus-wide OCR Public Lecture Series featured Kirk Stewart, executive vice president from APCO Worldwide in New York City.
The OCR received more than $675,000 in corporate gifts and corporate gifts-in-kind to support the launch of its research program during the 2008–09 academic year. Donors and sponsors included Lenovo, CustomScoop, KDPaine & Partners and TV Eyes.
OCR held two retreats with the media analyst team featuring Stewart in the fall and “The Elements of Influence” author Alan Kelly in the spring. OCR also participated in a telepresence seminar on corporate reputation measurement, featuring the lead data analyst from Harris Interactive in New York City. Students received
Park Library The Park Library has a new director, Stephanie Willen Brown, who started June 1, 2009. Stephanie is promoting the Park Library’s library resources and working towards making them more accessible to students and faculty. Some library changes include: • Books now circulate to all for 30 days. Students and faculty can request books from other UNC libraries be delivered to the Park Library, and all books can be returned to the Park Library for distribution to the original lending library. • Beverages are permitted in the library.
an in-depth look at the Harris Interactive’s corporate reputation/public opinion poll methodology for taking a nationwide sample of the U.S. population. OCR students presented six research posters at the Celebration of Undergraduate Research on
• Reference service is provided through the traditional methods like telephone and in-person visits. Library staff are also answering reference questions via instant messaging through the name JoMCParkLib.
Social networking sites for the Park Library include: • Twitter, at twitter.com/JoMCParkLib – learn about new books, resources, and other items of library and social networking interest. • Park Library staff are blogging at jomcparklib.blogspot.com – commenting on what they discover about the library. • Facebook group for the Park Library – UNC-CH-Carroll-Hall-Park-Library – where we post material similar to what is available through Twitter. • New books are added to this WorldCat list: tinyurl.com/NewBooksPark. Recently retired Park Librarian Barbara Semonche was honored at the Special Libraries Association annual meeting with membership into the SLA Hall of Fame. This honor is granted to SLA members to recognize service and contributions to the association.
Professional Education The school’s professional education program held a series of seminars and workshops addressing journalism and communication in an ever-changing media environment.
The popular, weeklong Multimedia Bootcamp explored the various forms of multimedia storytelling and how they work together to create a cohesive package. Journalists from 18 European countries participated in the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists, a U.S. State Department initiative.
Program on Public Life The UNC Program on Public Life, housed in the UNC Center for the Study of the American South, is directed by Ferrel Guillory, who works at the intersection of policy, politics and journalism. The program is dedicated to a sustained, constructive enrichment of the democratic governance of our state and region.
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The eighth annual Newspaper Academy, cohosted by the N.C. Press Association, featured back-to-basics sessions for reporters and editors as well as sessions aimed at helping newsroom veterans keep up with the latest ideas and innovations.
Chris Roush, director of the Carolina Business News Initiative, led “Getting Started in Business News,” a conference for university students interested in a career in business journalism. The program, which was held over fall break at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, offered tips from business journalists, including alumni working at The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Bloomberg News.
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Penny Abernathy, Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics, led a workshop on “Leadership in a Time of Rapid Change: A Strategic Framework for Newspapers,” which brought together faculty and N.C. editors and publishers to discuss strategies for addressing economic challenges facing newspapers.
This was the school’s fourth year hosting the program, which provides exposure to how journalism is practiced in the United States, focusing on the rights and responsibilities of a free press in a democracy.
During the past year, the program carried out its mission of transmitting useful knowledge to North Carolina’s policy makers and opinion leaders through these activities: • Hosting the North Carolina Editorial Writers Roundtable. The program arranged panel discussions on the metropolitanization of the state and emerging issues in public education. Gene Nichol, professor of law and director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, delivered a Sunday evening dinner speech. • Convening state legislators for dinner discussions on pending issues during the 2009 session of the General Assembly. These Ferrel Guillory
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Fall break wasn’t the norm for 16 UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication seniors who traded three days of rest and relaxation for a deep dive into brand strategy. “StratShop,” the first-ever strategy workshop for undergraduates was held at the McKinney agency Oct. 21–23. “While our primary intention is to further deepen our collaborative relationship with the UNC J-school, we admit to some personal interest as well,” said McKinney partner and director of account planning Jeremy Holden. “It’s also
a chance to build early relationships with some of the best talent from the country’s premier journalism and mass communication school. These kids will be offered truly unique experiences: immersion into how we create brand conversations and a chance to apply the tools and practices they’ve learned with real world strategic assignments.” “McKinney is perhaps the only agency in the nation that has formalized the tri-disciplines of account planning, connection planning and interactive strategy into one strategic offering and integrated it into their brand teams,” said UNC advertising professor John Sweeney. “Our students get an unprecedented experience they would normally have to wait to get in a graduate-level program. Thanks to StratShop, they get an opportunity to supplement their day-to-day studies with real exposure to leadingedge best practices.” Under the theme “Building a Brand Conversation,”
gatherings brought together lawmakers with UNC faculty researching such topics as middle-school curriculum and water resources. • Providing research for an effort to expand philanthropy in the business community and among young professionals, in collaboration with the Triangle Community Foundation. • Examining opportunities for economic development and community building in Eastern North Carolina. In collaboration with Research Triangle Institute, the program hosted a working roundtable that featured U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre and brought to Chapel Hill rural scholars from North Carolina and South Carolina. With
• Publishing NC Data-Net on the “tidechanging election” of 2008, and publishing Carolina Context white papers on the state’s aging workforce and on the federal assistance that goes uncollected by vulnerable residents who qualify. You may read publications of the UNC Program on Public Life at www.southnow.org.
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the workshop was led by McKinney’s awardwinning strategy team and structured into a series of key segments that introduce students to the function and practices of McKinney’s related strategy disciplines. McKinney chief strategy officer Andrew Delbridge led “Conversation Planning: How to Create a Conversation Beyond the Traditional Ad Campaign”; Doug Holroyd, director of connection planning, presented “Connection Planning: Conversation Development Tools and Practices”; and director of interactive strategy Jim Russell offered “Interactive Strategy,” which included online consumer monitoring, site mapping, and development and social media planning. “All segments presented case studies with practical exercises designed to get the students thinking way beyond ads and more about how to reinvent the conversation between brands and consumers,” Holden said. The workshop ended with the students divided into teams tackling real-world strategic problems assigned by McKinney’s strategy team. “We’re hoping they’ll be brand conversationalists for life,” Holden said. “And perhaps they’ll make their way to McKinney.”
funding from the UNC Office of Economic and Business Development, the program also conducted a study of the attitudes and lifestyle aspirations of young adults living in the cities of Eastern North Carolina for the N.C. East Economic Partnership in Kinston.
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Public Relations About 30 percent of the school’s juniors and seniors are in the public relations program. The school has six full-time PR faculty members – two professional track and four research track.
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The spelling and grammar test: Faculty members Richard Cole and Tom Bowers developed a spelling and grammar test amid faculty concerns that students’ writing skills were weak. In 1975, the faculty required students to pass the test for graduation from the school. On Feb. 1, 1975, NBC News aired a report about the spelling and grammar test on a national television newscast.
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The public relations and advertising programs worked in tandem in 2008–09 to develop crossover courses for the new curriculum launched in fall 2009. Assistant professors Napoleon Byars and Janas Sinclair worked together to develop “JOMC 137 Principles of Advertising and Public Relations” for the new curriculum – a joint advertising/public relations introductory class offered for the first time in fall 2009. The advertising/public relations research methods class ( JOMC 279) was overhauled and expanded to accommodate 40 students per section. It is now one of the courses required of all PR and ad students. Associate professor Lois Boynton developed and taught “JOMC 732 Public Relations Writing” for master’s students focusing on strategic communication, and Byars developed and taught a new public information strategies class. Campaigns course instructors helped develop a client assessment survey piloted in fall 2009 to help address the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications assessment requirements. Students in public relations classes developed communication tools and campaign plans for a variety of clients including the Minor League Baseball Association, 100th anniversary of the first journalism class at UNC, ARC of Orange County, USO of North Carolina, Carolina Navigators, Campus Y, N.C. Health Careers Access Program, Special Olympics, UNC Beacon Child and Family Program, among others. They gained internships and full-time jobs at locations including the White House Press Office, Children’s Defense Fund, NPR, NFL, china.com, Lowe’s, Make-A-Wish Foundation, UNC Healthcare communication office, Rock Against Cancer, Girls on the Run, Boom! magazine, Carnivore Preservation Trust, Blue Cross Blue Shield of N.C., Duke Energy, U.S. Olympic Committee, UNC Sports Communication Department, Department of Defense, UNC Department of Family Medicine,
Gruppo Perdisa Editore in Italy, Bennett College, among many others.
Reporting The new reporting curriculum now requires students to take three reporting courses in addition to the basic reporting class. And the basic reporting course, JOMC 253, has been dramatically changed, with the students working more closely with the instructors in a newsroom situation. Students work out of a newsroom on Franklin Street and print their stories on deadline in class. In addition, student reporters in all classes submit stories to the Carolina Journalism Network or assistant professor Ryan Thornburg’s Newsdesk class for publication on the network’s Web site. While the advanced editing class is now part of the editing and graphic design curriculum, all reporting students must take the basic editing course, which features an increased emphasis on online skills, including writing searchengine-optimized headlines and preparing online slideshows. In the classroom, guest speakers, including both seasoned professionals and recent graduates, continue to enrich the students’ education. Last year students met with media professionals from Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, the Washingtonian and Sports Illustrated magazines, along with the recruiting editor from The Detroit News and the head of the Newslab project. Graduates accepted jobs and internships at a variety of print and online outlets, including the Bloomberg News Service, the Danville (Va.) Register & Bee, the Sun News of Myrtle Beach, S.C., The Greensboro News & Record, Politico.com and Cosmopolitan magazine.
Sports Communication Program The sports communication program, now in its fifth year, is designed to bring all programs in the school together to look at the emerging continued on page 74
Hardship and Hope Carolina Photojournalism students set out to document the human face of the economic crisis in North Carolina’s Triangle region. What unites each story – whether about foreclosure or family – is the human spirit. Though hard times cause suffering, they can be fertile ground for some of humanity’s best acts – love and kindness. See more at carolinaphotojournalism.org/economy.
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world of sports media. The program consists of three courses covering ethics, marketing and general sports communication. Students have worked with senior executives from the Florida Marlins, Detroit Pistons and Miami Dolphins. They have conducted ethics forums on college football, youth sports, sports reporting and the steroid controversy with senior officials and experts who have visited classrooms to discuss issues based on student research. Guest speakers have included Miami Heat executive vice president Kim Stone, former Carolina basketball coach Bill Guthridge and Travis Tygart, CEO and general manager of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. Sport communication students have landed jobs at ESPN, Nike, Onsport consulting, the Carolina Panthers and the Baltimore Ravens. Many students also use the program without any direct vocational goals.
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Visual Communication The school’s visual communication programs in graphic design, multimedia and photojournalism continue to grow and expand as we meet and exceed expectations of current students, alumni and the media organizations hiring our graduates.
This year the school welcomed accomplished multimedia photojournalist Chad Stevens to its faculty. Stevens completed his graduate work at Ohio University and worked as a multimedia producer at MediaStorm. His awards include a 2009 Webby Award, and a nomination for an Emmy in 2009. Visual Communication faculty have been engaged in a number of multimedia, documentary and research projects. “Living Galapagos” (livinggalapagos.org), which launched in fall 2009, is the first in-depth multimedia project on the Web to examine the impact of man in the islands. Projects about economic hardship in North Carolina and a joint project with the Kenan-Flagler Business School also were created under the auspices of visual communication faculty. In addition, visual communication faculty members led the school’s top students and a number of faculty members from other areas in the school to create the award-winning News 21 project, “Powering a Nation” (poweringanation.org) during the spring and summer of 2009. The project, which focuses on U.S. energy consumption, will continue to grow and be added to through summer 2010. Faculty and student eyetracking research in Web design has garnered the interest, attention and financial support of news organizations such as NewYorkTimes.com, Yahoo! News, WashingtonPost.com and Time magazine online. Students’ work continues to place in the most prestigious competitions – from the National Press Photographers Association, to the Online News Association, to the Society for News Design’s Best of Multimedia Design competition. The New York Times, MSNBC, USA Today, National Geographic and The Washington Post are among the many national groups inviting our students to join their staffs. In addition, local media groups and production companies such as such as The Dallas Morning News and the Smithsonian Institute have hired numerous visual communication students as full-time staff or interns. The visual communication program’s success is due in large part to our multimedia, infographics and documentary photojournalism emphases. Faculty dedication to the students has been continued on page 83
RESEARC H Faculty and students in the school are active in research and scholarship, often collaborating with one another and with colleagues from other disciplines to explore a wide range of questions related to media and communication today. Over the past year, grant proposals were submitted to foundations, corporations and government agencies to expand the base of support for projects conducted by both faculty and students. Projects span community journalism, political communication, new media and technology, health communication, entrepreneurship and more. Activities are underway in many of these areas, and faculty continue to expand them and launch new projects. The results of these projects are presented in both academic and general venues. Numerous students and faculty from the school publish in scholarly journals and attend regional and national conferences, as well as actively share their findings and observations in news articles, blogs and social media outlets.
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parents, caregivers and the people who influence them, such as relatives and friends. By sharing knowledge that infant crying is a normal stage of child development, the Period of PURPLE Crying hopes to save lives and reduce cases of shaking in North Carolina by 50 percent over five years. With an inaugural grant from the N.C. Translational and Clinical Science Institute, J-school lecturer and doctoral alumna Joan Cates is addressing racial and gender disparities in human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine acceptability in North Carolina. HPV is the most widespread sexually transmitted infection in the United States and can lead to several kinds of cancer and genital warts. In 2006, a vaccine was approved to protect girls from several strains of HPV that are known to cause cervical cancer, as well as several other types of cancer. In October 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug
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Assistant professor Heidi Hennink-Kaminksi is working with the National Center for Shaken Baby Syndrome on a social marketing campaign and other communication tools and strategies to help save infants’ lives by raising awareness of normal infant crying. Shaken baby syndrome is one of the leading causes of child abuse deaths in the United States. The Period of PURPLE Crying is a prevention proHeidi Henninkgram about the dangers of Kaminksi reacting in frustration to an infant’s crying, and it provides parents and caregivers with information and coping strategies. The media campaign uses a mix of radio advertising, print advertising, social media and a Web site (www.PURPLEcryingnc.info) providing researchbased information written by experts in various fields of child development. The materials are designed to reach
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Associate professor and director of the school’s media effects laboratory Sri Kalyanaraman is working with a grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how to more effectively communicate the risks of smoking to young smokers. It can be difficult to capture the attention of young smokers because many of them believe they already know all about the risks. Kalyanaraman is collaborating with researchers at Duke University seeking new ways to convey messages about the harms of smoking and determine how the communication process might be altered to make persuasive communications more effective in motivating cessation.
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Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics Penny Abernathy studies the potential paths for renewal for traditional news organizations struggling to survive and thrive in the digital age. Abernathy focuses on practical research that can be shared widely online and person-to-person to help journalists and media Penny Abernathy industry managers take on the industry’s economic challenges. Her recent research highlights the necessity of shedding legacy costs, identifying and pursuing new communities, and building new online revenue streams. The recommendations are contained in the paper “The News Landscape in 2014: Transformed or Diminished? Formulating a Game Plan for Survival in the Digital Age,” written in collaboration with Richard Foster, senior faculty fellow with Yale University’s School of Management. Abernathy and her students are partnering with N.C. community newspapers in Washington, Whiteville and Wilkesboro to explore and develop new business models. They worked with The Fayetteville Observer and The Charlotte Observer on usage of the Associated Press, and they collaborated with The Raleigh News & Observer on tracking news consumption by college students.
Administration approved the use of the HPV vaccine to help prevent genital warts in males aged nine to 26. Previous campaigns for HPV vaccine have focused almost exclusively on the female population. Cates collaborated with then-NCCU assistant professor (and Carolina J-school alumna) LaHoma Romocki to conduct focus groups with African-American caregivers of 11- and 12-year-old boys in Sampson County, N.C. The study explored their need for 60% information and their moti50% vations for getting the HPV vaccine for their adolescent 40% sons. Using the findings from 30% their focus group research, Cates and Romocki then 20% worked with graduate students 10% in the Interdisciplinary Health Communication seminar 0 taught by Knight Professor (10%) Jane Brown to develop and test campaign materials intended (20%) to raise awareness and positive Traditional news (30%) perceptions of the HPV vaccine Niche Information Providers among rural African-American (40%) caregivers of young boys. 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
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Assistant professor Francesca Dillman Carpentier is studying how broadcast journalists and news organizations can more effectively engage audience members and interest viewers in more general news. With so much news and information available today, it can be difficult for broadcasters to motivate people to watch news beyond their own personal interests. Carpentier has found that viewers have an increased interest in and recall of information if they know that the information will be seen by others and lead to future conversations. These findings suggest that news organizations’ promotions or teases that push the idea that others are familiar with the story will encourage viewers to watch a story in hopes of discussing it with their peers. The use of social media such as Twitter could supplement peer interaction by supplying information on how watching a story will be socially beneficial for viewers.
MEDIA LAW AND POLICY Associate professor Michael Hoefges’ research interests include First Amendment commercial and corporate speech issues, freedom of information, commercial access to government records and databases, privacy law for advertisers and marketers, class action notice plans, and advertising and marketing regulation for various products and services including alcohol and tobacco products, gambling, licensed professional services, and regulated drugs and medical devices. He is currently studying the constitutionality of newly proposed U.S. Food and Drug Administration rules to restrict tobacco advertising. In addition, he is researching the Supreme Court’s First Amendment commercial speech doctrine and how courts evaluate the substantiality of governmental interests in constitutional challenges to advertising restrictions. Professor and faculty director of the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy Cathy Packer has studied the recent Congressional testimony and debate of a
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Assistant professor Laura Ruel researches how users interact with multimedia stories. She examines behavior and cognitive processes and looks for practical applications for news design. Ruel co-founded the Digital Storytelling Effects Lab (DiSEL) through which she conducts much of her research. DiSEL combines usability studies and postusage surveying with eyetracking data and other methods to help make recommendations on specific forms of story design. Eyetracking records the movements and fixations of a subject’s eyes while viewing online presentations. It provides evidence of how people move through and are attracted, or distracted, by different visual and navigation designs. DiSEL works to get its study results out to the industry in a timely manner to provide guidance for
GE calls it “ecomagination;” communication professionals call it corporate advertising; and critics call it greenwashing. Assistant professor Janas Sinclair studies ad campaigns that go beyond promoting sales of a particular brand and present a point of view on broader topics related to the environment and marketplace. These advocacy messages – a type of corporate advertising – often involve complex business, technological, science and public policy issues. In the book “Communicating Science: New Agendas in Communication” (2010, Routledge), she and Barbara Miller (UNC Ph.D., now on the faculty at Elon) explore how the general public makes sense of these corporate advocacy messages that seek to influence public opinion about business and the environment. WHAT: RESEARCH
Cole Eminent Professor Daniel Riffe is leading a study to assess public opinion about the role of news coverage in conveying health risks related to environmental conditions. Environmental health hazards range from air and water pollution to workplace dangers. Through a telephone survey, researchers are examining North Carolinians’ sense of their personal risk level for various environmental hazards; their comfort with how well informed they are about those risks; and their sense of “efficacy” (or being able to address those risks themselves). Riffe and his collaborators, doctoral students Brooke Weberling, Sun Young Lee and Sherine El-Toukhy, are then exploring how well the respondents think news media, government, industry and environmental interest groups are communicating with the public about environmental risks.
journalists making daily online storytelling decisions. Funding for DiSEL research is provided by a consortium of news organizations that include the Dallas Morning News, The Des Moines Register, Detroit Free Press, Gannett, Las Vegas Sun, The New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, Star-Tribune, Time, USA Today, The Washington Post and Yahoo! News.
proposed federal shield law. If passed, the law would give journalists a limited right to refuse to reveal confidential sources. Two-thirds of states have enacted shield laws, but no similar protection exists in the federal courts. Packer analyzed the 2005–08 Congressional debate of a federal shield, and her research was published in the Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal. Packer’s research finds that much of the testimony at the Congressional hearings has focused on issues of how power should be distributed among the branches of government and the media. Also, members of Congress and others who testified at the hearings appeared to disagree about the context of the power arrangements. To the Justice Department and other shield law opponents, the post-9/11 terrorist threat was the most important contextual consideration. The media and other shield law supporters instead focused primarily on the current uncertainty in reporter’s privilege law, the numbers of journalists incarcerated for refusing to comply with federal subpoenas, and the resulting chilling effect on the media.
More than forty years after Kenan Professor Donald Shaw and colleague Maxwell McCombs (now at UT-Austin) conducted the first modern agenda-setting study in Chapel Hill, Shaw is leading the development of a new theory of ‘agenda melding.’ This current study examines the power of the media to shape voters’ views about presidential candidates and issues during the 2008 presidential campaign. It is modeled on the original agenda-setting study that examined the role of the press in the setting of political agendas of voters in the 1968 presidential election. The research looks at how media’s role in the agenda-setting process has changed with the proliferation of news sources, such as cable news and entertainment channels, news Web sites, social networking sites and blogs. Shaw is finding that people are blending media agendas to reinforce their beliefs and avoid other points of view. The agendamelding theory seeks to better describe how audiences are drawing together information from this variety of media agendas to create their own picture of reality.
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Associate professor Frank Fee is studying an important yet often overlooked figure in the antebellum abolitionist movement, Julia Griffiths. A British abolitionist, Griffiths came to America to work closely with Frederick Douglass, helping him to realize his ambitions as a newspaper editor while directing numerous women’s antislavery activities in the U.S. and Great Britain. Douglass repeatedly praises Griffiths in the
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Mirroring trends in the print media, the political blogosphere is dominated by male bloggers who tend to be more popular and influential than their female counterparts despite a near-parity in numbers. Using feminist standpoint theory, professor Anne Johnston, assistant professor Barbara Friedman and graduate student Sara Peach are studying women’s political commentary among the top blogs. They are identifying what topics women write about and looking at how they write about them. In addition, the researchers reject the notion that there are few women with political opinions, using alternate ratings methods to identify popular women’s political blogs and the issues discussed on those blogs.
pages of his newspaper and in his correspondence, yet there has been relatively little scholarly examination of her or her contributions to the abolitionist cause. Fee seeks to locate and analyze the correspondence of Griffiths and Douglass, as well as the columns that Griffiths wrote for Douglass. Fee’s research is developing a more detailed understanding of Griffiths, as well as Douglass and his work.
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH Through assistant professor Craig Carroll’s Observatory on Corporate Reputation (OCR), students conduct research focused on various corporate reputation themes. They participate in literature reviews and article summaries, media monitoring, assessing the health of companies using public information, data visualization and writing case studies about N.C. companies. OCR students presented six research posters at the University’s Celebration of Undergraduate Research in 2009. Students in associate professor Joe Bob Hester’s “Advertising and Public Relations Research” course analyzed a variety of social media content (Twitter, Facebook, sports blogs, etc.) to gain insight into sports fans’ perceptions of the Charlotte Bobcats. They presented their findings in December to representatives of the Bobcats and Fox Sports Carolinas. During the spring 2010 semester, students in an “Advertising Campaigns” course are using the results to help develop a marketing communications campaign for the Bobcats.
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by a one-way mirror. The master computer is housed in the observation area and is used to record data collected from computer terminals located in the experimental area. The one-way mirror allows for unobtrusive monitoring of participants’ behaviors. The experimental room is equipped with a bank of networked computers, audio-visual equipment and accessories, and sophisticated measurement instruments such as Applied Science Laboratories (ASL) Eye Tracker Unit (to measure eye movement), BIOPAC (to gauge physiological responses such as brain activity, heart rate, reaction time, skin conductance) and MediaLab software (for stimulus creation, and to monitor reaction times and Internet browsing behavior). In addition, all computers are furnished with advanced statistical software and Web design programs. One of the most important goals of the lab is to serve as a fertile training ground for students interested in experimental research. The laboratory’s equipment enables students – both undergraduate and graduate – to obtain a hands-on experience for conducting experimental research.
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The school’s media effects laboratory ranks among the leading facilities of its kind dedicated to conducting experimental research on the psychological effects of media content, form and technology. In addition to hosting experiments, the lab serves as a repository for creating and pretesting stimuli, and laboratory staff offer assistance with experimental design, data collection and analysis. The lab has promoted several interdisciplinary initiatives with faculty and students from other departments and schools as well as from other universities. Recent and current projects include effects of a virtual reality simulator on perceptions of schizophrenia, effects of technological advancement in video games, the differences in receiving health information from Web sites versus podcasts, and the risk perceptions of anti-smoking messages, among others. Many of these studies have been published in leading scientific journals in communication and other disciplines. The lab is divided into two areas – an experimental room and an observation room, partitioned
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Since the mid 1960s, the school has graduated undergraduates with honors. To graduate with honors from the school, a student must earn a 3.5 overall GPA and write a thesis based on original research. To graduate with highest honors a student must earn a 3.7 overall GPA and write an outstanding thesis. In the past year, 10 students met those high standards. During their senior year, each designed and conducted a research project that resulted in a 50-80 page thesis that is now bound and stored in both the school’s Park Library and the University’s North Carolina Collection in Wilson Library. The students conducted content analyses, experiments, surveys, historical and legal analysis, and even an online focus group with adolescent girls. They studied a wide variety of topics including whether green magazine issues attract newsstand sales; whether war reporters should be treated for Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome; if Chinese newspapers covered the Beijing Olympics more positively than The New York Times; and if blogs are the future of political news. Each student worked individually with three faculty members from the school and other UNC departments who are experts on the topic, and they met in a seminar format with the other students and honors coordinator Knight Professor Jane Brown each week in
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the fall and spring semesters. Each student also “defended” a completed project with a committee. Most of the honors students also presented their findings at the Celebration for Undergraduate Research. Some of the posters they created to display their work now hang in the hall outside the school’s Park Library.
Associate professor Sri Kalyanaraman encourages undergraduate students in his “Process & Effects of Mass Communication” course (JOMC 445) to present their research at national and international professional conferences. Kalyanaraman’s students conduct original research projects examining media effects of a wide range of issues, including online dating strategies, television consumption and the perception of social reality, user perceptions of social media, and the effects of antismoking PSAs. The students’ work has been accepted to prestigious academic conferences held by organizations such as the International Communication Association and the National Communication Association.
Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series The Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series was formally established in 2007 to nurture an intellectually vibrant interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary climate, by scheduling scholarly presentations on diverse topics. The speakers represent various disciplines and units on campus as well as other universities and organizations in the Triangle. The series has been particularly successful in attracting scholars and researchers of national and international renown from within the U.S. and abroad. The series has attracted more than 2,000 diverse attendees including faculty, graduate students and researchers from around the Triangle. The colloquia meet Thursday afternoons in the school’s Freedom Forum Conference Center in Carroll Hall. Most of the talks are recorded and made available for public view at the school’s iTunes U and YouTube sites. For more information or to make suggestions, please contact Sri Kalyanaraman at sri@unc.edu or 919.843.5858.
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Joanne Hershfield Professor UNC Women’s Studies Imagining La Chica Moderna: Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917 to 1940
Daniel Solove Professor George Washington University Law School The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor and Privacy on the Internet
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Craig Carroll Assistant professor UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication What a Public Relations Orientation Offers Media Research: The Introduction of Core and Peripheral Attributes to Agenda-Setting Theory
Mary Beth Oliver Professor Penn State University College of Communications Mixed Emotions as Affective Response to Meaningful Entertainment
David Ewoldsen Professor Ohio State University School of Communication Implications of Attitude and Norm Accessibility on Adolescents’ Tobacco Use
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Paul Jones Clinical associate professor UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication and School of Information and Library Science Changing Communities Inside the Media Gap
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Anne Johnston Professor UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication Framing the Public Debate on the Global Sex Trade: Media Coverage of the Causes of – and Solutions to – Sex Trafficking
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Noshir Contractor Professor Northwestern University From Disasters to WoW: Enabling Knowledge Networks in the 21st Century Oct. 15
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Stephanie Haas Professor UNC School of Information and Library Science When Did Last Night End and This Morning Begin? Expressions of Time in Triage Sept. 10
Anne Klinefelter Associate professor UNC School of Law Sex, Libraries and Videotapes: How Judicial Review Affects Libraries’ Practices and the First Amendment Sept. 17
Marci Campbell Professor UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Tailoring Health Messages – 20 Years of Lessons, Mistakes, and a Few Insights
Diego Garcia Assistant professor UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Sentiment During Recessions Oct. 29
Jeffrey Hancock Associate professor Cornell University Department of Communication The Shape of Deception in the Digital Age Nov. 12
Rajiv Rimal Associate professor Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health Health Communication Theory at Work: HIV Prevention and Stigma Reduction in Sub Saharan Africa Nov. 19
Francesca Gino Assistant professor UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School How Bad Apples Can Motivate Ethical or Unethical Behavior
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Brian Southwell Associate professor University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication Aging and Its Implications for Media Effects Assessment
Erik Bucy Associate professor Indiana University Dept. of Communications Image Bite Politics: Network News and the Visual Framing of Elections
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Kathy Roberts Forde Assistant professor University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment
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Aikat, Debashis “Deb”. “India (chapter).” Encyclopedia of Journalism. Ed. Christopher H. Sterling. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Reference, 2009. Bechtel, Andy. “With editing, the fix is not always in.” News & Observer. July 12, 2009: D9. Brown, Jane D., and Kelly L. L’Engle. “X-Rated: Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors Associated with U.S. Early Adolescents’ Exposure to Sexually Explicit Media.” Communication Research. 36.1 (2009): 129-51. Byars, Napoleon. “Conquest in Cyberspace: National Security and Information Warfare.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 86.1 (2009): 212-3. Byars, Queenie A. “Black and Mainstream Press’s Framing of Racial Profiling: A Historical Perspective.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 86.1 (2009): 206-8. Callison, Coy, Rhonda Gibson, and Dolf Zillmann. “How to Report Quantitative Information in News Stories.” Newspaper Research Journal. 30.2 (2009): 43-55. Carpentier, Francesca R. Dillman. “Effects of Priming Social Goals on Personal Interest in Television News.” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 53.2 (2009): 300-16. Carroll, Craig E., Sun Y. Lee, and Nell C. L. Huang. “The Syntax of ‘Tactic(s)’ in Public Relations Research.” Public Relations Review. 35.4 (2009): 419-21. Carroll, Craig E. “Innovation Journalism (chapter).” Encyclopedia of Journalism. Ed. Christopher H. Sterling. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Reference, 2009. Cates, Joan R., Noel T. Brewer, Karah I. Fazekas, Cicely E. Mitchell, and Jennifer S. Smith. “Racial Differences in HPV Knowledge, HPV Vaccine Acceptability, and Related Beliefs among Rural, Southern Women.” Journal of Rural Health. 25.1 (2009): 93-7. Cuadros, Paul. “Nation’s Promise at Stake.” Chapel Hill News. October 4, 2009: 1A. Cuadros, Paul. News & Observer. February 15, 2009: A1. Cuadros, Paul. “America’s Tug of War.” News & Observer. April 19, 2009: A1. Cuadros, Paul. “’Dis is Da Yr!’.” News & Observer. January 7, 2009: A1. Fee, Frank. “Journalism 1908: The Birth of a Profession (Book Review).” Journalism. 10.3 (2009): 405-7. Friedman, Barbara, Carolyn Kitch, Therese Lueck, Amber Roessner, and Betty Winfield. “Stirred, Not Yet Shaken: Integrating Women’s History into Media History.” American Journalism. 26.1 (2009): 160-74. Friedman, Barbara. “First Ladies and the Fourth Estate: Press Framing of Presidential Wives (Book Review).” American Journalism. 26.1 (2009): 115-7. Fuller, Kate, Jill Livingston, Stephanie Willen Brown, Susanna Cowan, Thomas Wood, and Leslie Porter. “Making Unmediated Access to E-Resources a Reality: Creating a Usable ERM Interface.” Reference & User Services Quarterly. 48.3 (2009): 287-301. Gilmer, Bryan. Felonious Jazz : A Novel. [S.l.]: Createspace, 2009. Gilmer, Bryan. Kill the Story : A Novel. [S.l.]: Createspace, 2009. Hennink-Kaminski, H., and E. K. Dougall. “Myths, Mysteries and Monsters: When Shaken Babies Make the News.” Social Marketing Quarterly. 15.4 (2009). Hennink-Kaminski, H., and E. K. Dougall. “Tailoring Hospital Education Materials for the Period of PURPLE Crying: Saving Babies in North Carolina Media Campaign.” Social Marketing Quarterly. 15.4 (2009). Holz Ivory, Adrienne, Rhonda Gibson, and James D. Ivory. “Gendered Relationships on Television: Portrayals of Same-Sex and Heterosexual Couples.” Mass Communication & Society. 12.2 (2009): 170-92. Hughes, Jessica, Joan R. Cates, Nicole Liddon, Jennifer S. Smith, Sami L. Gottlieb, and Noel T. Brewer. “Disparities in How Parents are Learning About the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine.” Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 18.2 (2009): 363-72. Ivory, James D., and Sriram Kalyanaraman. “Video Games Make People Violent – Well, Maybe Not that Game: Effects of Content and Person Abstraction on Perceptions of Violent Video Games’ Effects and Support of Censorship.” Communication Reports. 22.1 (2009): 1-12. Johnston, Anne. “Political Advertising Serves an Important Role for American Votes (chapter).” Advertising and Society: Controversies and Consequences. Ed. C. J. Pardun. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2009. 41-48. Kalyanaraman, Sriram, and James D. Ivory. “Enhanced Information Scent, Selective Discounting, or Consummate Breakdown: The Psychological Effects of Web-Based Search Results.” Media Psychology. 12 (2009): 295-319. King, David Lee, and Stephanie Willen Brown. “Emerging Trends, 2.0, and Libraries.” The Serials Librarian. 56.1 (2009): 32.
Lacy, Stephen R., Daniel Riffe, Esther Thorson, and Margaret Duffy. “Examining the Features, Policies, and Resources of Citizen Journalism: Citizen News Sites and Blogs.” Web Journal of Mass Communication Research. 15 (2009). Lamme, Margot Opdycke, and Dulcie Straughan. “Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign (Book Review).” Journalism History. 34.4 (2009): 241-2. Magee, Robert G., and Sriram Kalyanaraman. “Effects of Worldview and Mortality Salience in Persuasion Processes.” Media Psychology. 12.2 (2009): 171-94. Meyer, Philip. The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2009. Meyer, Philip. “Journalism History is Merely a List of Surprises.” Quill. 97.2 (2009): 18-21. Meyer, Philip. “Let’s Not Stop the Presses.” USA Today. April 29, 2009: 09A. Meyer, Philip. “Lines are Blurring in Strange New World of Journalism.” USA Today. August 19, 2009: 09A. Meyer, Philip. “Precision Journalism (chapter).” Encyclopedia of Journalism. Ed. Christopher H. Sterling. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Reference, 2009. Miller, Barbara, and Janas Sinclair. “Community Stakeholder Responses to Advocacy Advertising.” Journal of Advertising. 38.2 (2009): 37-52. O’Connor, Paul. “An Unexpected Operative with an Excellent Cover Story.” Winston-Salem Journal. January 25, 2009: 18. O’Connor, Paul. “War Took Dreadful Toll on Exhausted, Starved French.” Winston-Salem Journal. June 28, 2009: 16. Packer, Cathy. “Article: The Politics of Power: A Social Architecture Analysis of the 2005-2008 Federal Shield Law Debate in Congress.” Comm/Ent (Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal). 31.3 (2009): 395-440. Packer, Cathy. “Netroots Rising: How a Citizen Army of Bloggers and Online Activists is Changing American Politics.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 86.1 (2009): 224-5. Riffe, Daniel, and Tom Hrach. “Study Explores Audience’s Views on Environmental News.” Newspaper Research Journal. 30.3 (2009): 8-25. Riffe, Daniel. “An Editorial Comment.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 86.1 (2009): 2. Riffe, Daniel. “An Editorial Comment: “Identity”.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 86.1 (2009): 2-3. Roush, Chris. “Bloomberg (chapter).” Encyclopedia of Journalism. Ed. Christopher H. Sterling. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Reference, 2009. Roush, Chris. “Business Journalism (chapter).” Encyclopedia of Journalism. Ed. Christopher H. Sterling. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Reference, 2009. Roush, Chris. “Moving the Classroom into the Newsroom.” American Journalism Review. 31.1 (2009): 42-7. Roush, Chris. “Unheeded Warnings.” American Journalism Review. 30.6 (2009): 34-9. Roush, Chris. “The Wall Street Journal, and the Invention of Modern Journalism.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 86.1 (2009): 233-4. Runyan, D. K., H. Hennink-Kaminski, A. Zolotor, R. G. Barr, R. Murphy, M. Barr, K. Sullivan, E. K. Dougall, and M. Nocera. “Designing and Testing a Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention Program: The Period of Purple Crying: Saving Babies in North Carolina.” Social Marketing Quarterly. 15.4 (2009). Sinclair, Janas, and Barbara Miller. “Understanding Public Response to Technology Advocacy Campaigns: A Persuasion Knowledge Approach (chapter).” Communicating Science: New Agendas in Communication. Eds. L. Kahlor and P. A. Stout. New York, NY: Routledge, 2009. 88-108. Towns, Leroy. “Campaign Transparency, Not Financing.” News & Observer. March 18, 2009: A11. Vargas, Lucila. Latina Teens, Migration, and Popular Culture. New York: Peter Lang Pub., 2009. Walden, Ruth, and Derigan Silver. “Deciphering Dun & Bradstreet: Does the First Amendment Matter in Private Figure-Private Concern Defamation Cases?” Communication Law & Policy. 14.1 (2009): 1-39. Walden, Ruth. “Access to Courts (chapter).” Communication and the Law. Ed. W. Wat Hopkins. Vision Press, 2009. 343-374. Walsh-Childers, Kim, and Jane D. Brown. “Effects of Media on Personal and Public Health (chapter).” Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research. Eds. Jennings Bryant and Mary Beth Oliver. 3rd Ed. New York, NY: Routledge, 2009. 469-489.
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recognized internationally, and members of the visual communication group have been invited speakers at conferences everywhere from Chile to Paris to Sweden. This dedication to teaching and developing multimedia storytelling directly affects our students who are exposed to the most advanced 3-D design and programming techniques as well as the latest in eyetracking equipment to test and evaluate multimedia design. The school continues to be host for the annual judging of the Society for News Design’s international multimedia awards.
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Incorporating technology: With money from the foundation, Adams purchased the school’s first computer terminals for the news editing lab. Keeping up with the newspaper industry, students edited using a keyboard.
The school’s official YouTube page was created in 2009, but student news broadcast “Carolina Week” has been on YouTube for years. The school’s YouTube page brings students, faculty, alumni and friends part of the Carolina experience right at their computers. School special events, guest lectures, class discussions, professional development seminars, symposia and research colloquia can be found on YouTube. Visit youtube.com/uncjschool to access the content and visit youtube.com/carolinaweek to see episodes of the student newscasts.
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Workroom students took an inside-the-industry tour during 2009 fall break. Twelve Workroom students traveled to New York City in October where top industry professionals in design, fashion and art opened their studios and workspaces. Students met with Mark Fina, executive creative director of Grey Worldwide’s Beauty Division who currently oversees all Cover Girl advertising design; Alexander Duckworth, president of Point One Percent, an agency specializing in exclusive luxury retail products such as Harry Winston, Barney’s and Rolex; Chris Messiter, agent for many top commercial and feature film directors including Michael Bay; Michael Strom, internationally acclaimed
The Workroom project concludes in April 2010 with a spotlight exhibition of the pieces students produced during the year.
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Workroom is a new creative advertising incubator for students interested in art direction and design-focused communications. The project combines two distinctive, but equal, parts: a professional seminar series and a portfolio development workshop. The series begins with the introduction of a project for a national client. During the course of the year, Workroom students design a product line for the client and develop the advertising materials to promote their line. Industry professionals guide students through the design process by providing inspiration and insight during monthly work sessions. The 2009–10 Workroom client is Vietri, an award-winning Italian tableware and home products company. Students are tasked with developing a new category of products for Vietri, while staying true to the strong brand identity and heritage of the company’s collections.
commercial tabletop film director; and Nick Cameron, director of operations for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each meeting included a backstage tour of the sets and studios where the real work gets done.
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In addition to daily teaching, research and service, the school continually hosts visiting professionals, workshops, seminars, lectures, conferences and social gatherings. These extracurricular events enrich the experience for students and faculty and provide meaningful outreach to communities in North Carolina and beyond. This timeline includes highlights from December 2008 through November 2009. January-May 2009
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“Comic Stripped: A Revealing Look at Southern Stereotypes in Cartoons” exhibit was displayed in the school. It was presented in partnership with the Triad Foundation and the Levine Museum of the New South.
Tom Bowers, professor emeritus, delivered the talk “Consecrated to the Common Good: One Hundred Years of Journalism Education at UNC,” a lecture for the Carolina College for Lifelong Learning, at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center.
The UNC Advertising Club hosted its 5th Annual Advertising Symposium, featuring professionals from Capstrat, McKinney, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Wildfire and BooneOakley, among many others.
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UNC Center for Media Law and Policy advisory board meeting
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Travis Long, staff photojournalist for The News & Observer, spoke as part of the school’s PhotoNight program. Jan. 29
Joanne Hershfield, professor in the UNC Department of Women’s Studies, delivered a talk entitled “Imagining La Chica Moderna: Women, Nation and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917 to 1940” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium. WHEN
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Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications team visited the school and recommended re-accreditation.
The school’s Journalism Alumni and Friends Association hosted an event for students to help them cope with the new challenges of finding a job. A panel offered insight on the finer points of networking, resumes, interviewing and closing the deal on an internship or job. Feb. 19
Mary Beth Oliver, professor at the College of Communications at Penn State University, delivered a talk entitled “Mixed Emotions as Affective Response to Meaningful Entertainment” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium.
Feb. 20
Paul Jones, director of ibiblio and clinical associate professor in the school, delivered the keynote address of the UNC First Amendment Law Review’s symposium “Cyberspeech,” co-sponsored by the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy. Feb. 24
Kristen Ashburn, whose book “I Am Because We Are” visually documents the AIDS pandemic in Africa, spoke as part of the school’s PhotoNight program. Feb. 26
Michael Slater, professor at the Ohio University School of Communication, delivered a talk entitled “Media and Cancer: Summarizing a Program of Research” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium.
2010 AEJMC Southeast Colloquium In March 2010, the school hosted the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s annual Southeast Colloquium. AEJMC is the national professional organization for college and university educators and researchers in journalism and mass communication. Associate professor Michael Hoefges organized the colloquium for the school.
Each year, the colloquium convenes for two days of research and panel presentations by faculty and graduate students from journalism and mass communication programs from colleges and universities across the nation. AEJMC divisions at the participating in the colloquium include History, Law and Policy, Newspaper, Magazine and Radio-Television Journalism.
There is an “open” division for research papers that do not fit one of those categories. Miriam Nisbet, director of the Office of Government Information Services in the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, was the keynote speaker for the colloquium. The school’s doctoral alumni gathered at the colloquium for a reunion event.
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Anthony Falzone, executive director of the Stanford Fair Use Project, delivered the talk “From James Joyce to Harry Potter and John Lennon,” co-sponsored by the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy.
Carolina Association of Black Journalists minority high school journalism program
March 6
Dean Folkerts appeared on “N.C. People” with William Friday on UNC-TV. March 5
Kathy Roberts Forde, assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, delivered a talk entitled “Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium.
March 30
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting presented “Women – Children – Crisis.” The event featured three journalists – Meredith May, Michael Kavanagh and Alaa Majeed – who shared their stories from their travels around the world. Antonin Kratochvil, World Press Photo Award winner and VII Photo Agency cofounder, spoke as part of the school’s PhotoNight program. April 2
Students traveled on spring break trip to meet with mentors in Washington, D.C. March 12
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JAFA alumni reception in Washington, D.C., at Capitol Hill Visitors Center
Daniel Solove, professor at George Washington University Law School, delivered a talk entitled “The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor and Privacy on the Internet” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium.
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Spring Board of Advisers meeting April 6
Brian Southwell, associate professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, delivered a talk entitled “Aging and Its Implications for Media Effects Assessment” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium.
Dan Gillmor, director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship and Kauffman Professor of Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, spoke on the state of citizen media in the Freedom Forum Conference Center.
Paul Jones, clinical associate professor in the school and the UNC School of Information and Library Science, delivered a talk entitled “Changing Communities Inside the Media Gap” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium.
April 6
Enrique Tames and Jesus Meza from Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico City discussed mobile learning in their talk “Media Convergence and Mobile Learning: Innovation in Communication” in the Freedom Forum Conference Center.
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Associate professor Lois Boynton led the session “Ethics in Journalism: Breaking Bad News” as part of a series of workshops sponsored by the UNC Parr Center for Ethics.
Cole begins building: Adams stepped down as dean and was succeeded by Richard Cole, who joined the faculty in 1971.
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Alan Murray, a deputy managing editor and executive editor for online at The Wall Street Journal, delivered the 19th Roy H. Park Distinguished Lecture, “The Future of Newspapers: Some Light at the End of a Very Long Tunnel.”
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Through 125 photographs, newspapers, letters, books, artifacts and drawings, “Consecrated to the Common Good: 100 Years of Journalism Education at UNC-Chapel Hill” documented the people, places and events that have shaped the past century of Carolina journalism education. The exhibit was on display in the N.C. Collection Gallery in Wilson Library from Sept. 9, 2009, through Jan. 31, 2010. Tom Bowers, professor emeritus and author of “Making News: One Hundred
Years of Journalism and Mass Communication at Carolina,” helped curate the exhibit. Featured items in the exhibit included the 1909 course handbook announcing Edward Kidder Graham’s offering of English 16, the first journalism course at Carolina, and another course catalog from 1924 indicating the establishment of the Journalism Department. Each of the deans from the school’s founding in 1950 through the present – from Oscar “Skipper” Coffin to Jean Folkerts – were featured in photographs. Also on view were famous firsts, such as the diary of Karen Parker, the school’s first
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Benton’s reporter’s notebook for a story about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The inaugural issue of The Daily Tar Heel, dated 1893 and then called simply The Tar Heel, demonstrates the interest in journalism at UNC even before the introduction of journalism courses. Letters, articles and editorials that were on display document the sometimes contentious relationship that held between the paper and the school through the early part of the century.
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African-American woman student, and pages from the first master’s dissertation (1955) and doctoral thesis (1967) written for the J-school. Famous alumni were represented through their writings, drawings and artifacts. Also on view was “Shoe” cartoonist Jeff MacNelly’s 1993 drawing of former journalism home Howell Hall, a typewriter used by broadcaster Charles Kuralt, and Nelson
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When failing health forced “Skipper” Coffin to resign from the faculty of the UNC School of Journalism in 1956, he told Chancellor Robert House that he and his colleagues had been “consecrated to the common good.” As he often did, Coffin here used a lofty phrase to emphasize that the school had been dedicated to
–Thomas Jefferson
responding to the needs of newspapers and the state. Professor emeritus Tom Bowers conducted dozens of interviews and pored over a century of newspaper accounts, correspondence and University archives to tell the story of how such a commitment has enlightened and shaped journalism education at UNC for 100 years. In “Making News: One Hundred Years of Journalism and Mass Communication at Carolina,” Bowers reveals how a succession of leaders and teachers dedicated themselves to students, the University, the state and beyond – to the common good. Edward Kidder Graham, the first journalism teacher and later the University’s president, committed the University to helping the people of North Carolina. He said the boundaries of the campus extended to the boundaries of the state. He believed newspapers and the University should
the freedom of speech, or of the press ...”
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that violence and all that bad news on television is not being permitted to hear it.”
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minorities. To Richard Cole, it meant new and expanded facilities to enable the school to be responsive to fast-changing media and prepare students for globalization, while adhering to traditional ideals. As Jean Folkerts leads the school into the second century of journalism education at Carolina, journalism education continues to adapt while remaining consecrated to the common good. The story is accentuated with accounts of a dean who inspired a character in a novel, a beloved faculty member who was the basis for a newspaper comic-strip character, another who was unwittingly part of the quiz-show scandals of the 1950s, and one who was ridiculed for predicting that computers would change newspapers. Bowers also uncovers the influence of an alumnus who changed the school and threatened to ask Duke University to start a journalism school if UNC did not follow his wishes. “Making News: One Hundred Years of Journalism and Mass Communication at Carolina” is available through UNC Press. A gift from alumnus Horace Carter funded the publishing of the book.
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work together to solve the “great problems of the people in both prosperous and stunted communities.” To Coffin, the journalism school’s first dean, and his colleagues, dedication to the common good meant training reporters, editors and advertising personnel for the state’s newspapers. Bowers’ narrative shows that Coffin engendered loyalty and alumni support that has made the difference between an excellent school and one that, according to the most recent accreditation report, has “earned a reputation as one of the premier programs in journalism and mass communication.” For Coffin’s successor, Neil Luxon, serving the common good meant an academic focus on educating future journalists for a complex world and a graduate program to prepare teachers and researchers to improve journalism. Bowers describes how deans Wayne Danielson and Jack Adams took consecration to the common good to mean greater academic respectability, expansion to newer media and inclusiveness of women and racial
WWW2010: International World Wide Web conference
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Carolina is partnering with N.C. State University to host WWW2010, the 19th International World Wide Web conference, April 26–30, 2010, at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, N.C. Paul Jones, director of ibiblio and clinical associate professor at the J-school and the UNC School of Information and Library Science, co-chairs the conference along with Michael Rappa, founder and director of the Institute for Advanced Analytics at North Carolina State University. The conference attracts researchers from around the world with original and pioneering research related to the Web. It is a premier global forum for productive debate about the evolution of the Web, the standardization of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture. Since its inception in 1994, the WWW Conference series has
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The school and the FedEx Global Education Center hosted opening receptions for 37th Frame, an exhibition of the best work by Carolina photojournalism students.
Anne Johnston, professor in the school, delivered a talk entitled “Framing the Public Debate on the Global Sex Trade: Media Coverage of the Causes of – and Solutions to – Sex Trafficking” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium.
Stephanie Haas, professor in the UNC School of Information and Library Science, delivered a talk entitled “When Did Last Night End and This Morning Begin? Expressions of Time in Triage Notes” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium.
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mining, social networks, industrial practice and experience, Internet monetization, Web 2.0, Web engineering, and XML and Web data. The World Wide Web conference began in 1994 and was organized by Robert Cailliau, who worked with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web. It was held at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. Since then, it has become an annual event, held in locations all over the world such as Paris, Amsterdam and New York. Last year the conference was held in Madrid, Spain, where 105 peerreviewed papers were presented. Two other conferences will be held concurrently at the Raleigh Convention Center; the W4A conference on Web accessibility and the second annual Web Science conference, which focuses on the intersection of the social and technological aspects of the Web.
Christopher Nurko, the global head of strategy and innovation with Nitro Group Advertising and Innovation in London, spoke in Carroll Hall. The UNC Ad Club helped to bring Nurko to Carolina. April 9
David Roskos-Ewoldsen, professor at the Ohio University School of Communication, delivered a talk entitled “Implications of Attitude and Norm Accessibility on Adolescents’ Tobacco Use” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium. April 13
School honors convocation and awards ceremony
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William I. Morton was inducted into the N.C. Advertising Hall of Fame; Robert Ruark was posthumously inducted into the N.C. Journalism Hall of Fame; and Trip Park was honored with the Next Generation Leadership Award at a ceremony at the Carolina Inn.
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Ronald Goldfarb, a Washington, D.C. attorney and author, discussed his latest book, “In Confidence: When to Protect Secrecy and When to Require Disclosure,” in the Freedom Forum Conference Center.
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Spring commencement May 17–22
UNC Multimedia Bootcamp May 26–29 June 15–18
N.C. Scholastic Media Institute July 19–25
Chuck Stone Program for Diversity in Education and Media
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J-school opening convocation
The UNC Center for Media Law and Policy and the Campus Y sponsored the campus-wide, daylong First Amendment Day designed to both celebrate the First Amendment and explore its role in the lives of Carolina students.
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The school hosted Society for News Design judging for Best of Multimedia Design competition. Sept. 3
Chad A. Stevens, assistant professor in the school and a former multimedia producer at MediaStorm, spoke as part of the school’s PhotoNight program. Sept. 9
The school kicked off its centennial observance on the 100th anniversary of the first journalism course taught at Carolina in 1909. “Consecrated to the Common Good” exhibit on Carolina journalism education history opened at the N.C. Collection Gallery. Sept. 10
Anne Klinefelter, associate professor at the UNC School of Law, delivered a talk entitled “Sex, Libraries, and Videotapes – How Judicial Review Affects Libraries’ Practices and the First Amendment” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium. Sept. 17
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Erik Bucy, associate professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University, delivered a talk entitled “Image Bite Politics: Network News and the Visual Framing of Elections” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium. Oct. 4–5
The school hosted a meeting of deans from top journalism programs participating in the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education. Oct. 8
Noshir Contractor, professor at the McCormick School of Engineering, School of Communication and Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, delivered a talk entitled “From Disasters to WoW: Enabling Knowledge Networks in the 21st Century” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium. Oct. 12
University Day. School alumnus Walter Hussman honored with University’s Distinguished Alumnus Award.
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Gary W. Green of the Orlando Sentinel spoke as part of the school’s PhotoNight program.
Journalism deans and foundation officials leading the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education met in Chapel Hill in October 2009.
First Amendment Day at Carolina included a reading of the First Amendment by Student Body President and J-school student Jasmin Jones; a reading of J.D. Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye” by Chancellor Holden Thorp; and the planting of a “liberty tree” outside of Carroll Hall.
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Craig Carroll, assistant professor in the school, delivered a talk entitled “What a Public Relations Orientation Offers Media Research: The Introduction of Core and Peripheral Attributes to Agenda-Setting Theory” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium.
School announced a $3.5 million gift from the estate of alumnus Reese Felts that will fund a major experimental student news project and audience research initiative. It is the largest single gift ever by an individual to Carolina’s journalism school.
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Marci Campbell, professor at the UNC School of Public Health, delivered a talk entitled “Tailoring Health Messages – 20 Years of Lessons, Mistakes, and a Few Insights” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium.
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Jason Kilar, Hulu CEO and 1993 alumnus, delivered the 20th Roy H. Park Distinguished Lecture “Sex, Lies & Online Video: From Howell Hall to Hulu.”
Francesca Gino, assistant professor at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, delivered a talk entitled “When and Why Ordinary People Cross Ethical Boundaries” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium.
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Tom Bowers delivered the Gladys Coates University History Lecture – The Origins of Journalism Education at UNC-Chapel Hill – in the Wilson Library. Oct. 15
Diego Garcia, assistant professor at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, delivered a talk entitled “Sentiment During Recessions” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium. Oct. 15 Hulu CEO and J-school alumnus Jason Kilar gave the Roy H. Park Distinguished Lecture to a standing room only crowd at UNC’s Gerrard Hall on Oct. 14, 2009.
Tom Kennedy, formerly of The Washington Post and National Geographic, spoke as part of the school’s PhotoNight program. Oct. 22
J-Day, Central Carolina High School Regional Workshop Oct. 22–23 WHEN
Fall break trip to Chicago. Reception to watch football at Joe’s Bar. Oct. 29
Jeffrey Hancock, associate professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, delivered a talk entitled “The Shape of Deception in the Digital Age” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium.
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“On the Edge” exhibit of alumna Susan Sidebottom’s photography focusing on the working poor displayed in the school. Jan. 11
First day of classes for spring semester Jan. 18
Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Jan. 19
Tom Bowers presented “Consecrated to the Common Good: One Hundred Years of Journalism at UNC” in a General Alumni Association event in Atlanta. Jan. 22
The UNC School of Law and the Center for Media Law and Policy holds a half-day symposium on reader privacy in the digital age, “Reader Privacy: Should Library Privacy Standards Apply in the Digital World?” March 5–14
Spring break March 11–13
AEJMC Southeast Colloquium hosted by the school. March 11–13
JAFA-sponsored spring break networking trip to New York City
Centennial homecoming open house at the school
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Rajiv Rimal, associate professor at the School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, delivered a talk entitled “Health Communication Theory at Work: HIV Prevention and Stigma Reduction in SubSaharan Africa” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium.
Spring holiday American Association of Advertising Agencies “How to Sell Creative” AAAA’s workshop in the Freedom Forum Conference Center April 8–9
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Faculty diversity: A 1978 editorial in Black Ink charged the school with racism as there are no black faculty members and no course taught about the black press. Responding to those charges, the school hired Harry Amana as its first black faculty member.
Roy H. Park Lecture with P.J. O’Rourke gram that began in the school in fall 1997. The fellowships go to 22 new graduate students, eight doctoral and 14 master’s, in the school each year. The lecture series brings outstanding mass communication professionals to the campus each year with the goal of enriching the educational experience of undergraduate and graduate journalism students, and presenting speakers of interest to the campus and beyond. The lecture series honors Roy H. Park, the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Park Communications Inc., which became an expansive multimedia company with broadcast and print properties throughout the U.S.
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became a foreign correspondent in the 1980s and since has covered crises and conflicts in more than 70 countries. O’Rourke has written for Car & Driver, PARADE, The Weekly Standard, House and Garden, Automobile, The American Spectator, Forbes FYI, The Atlantic Monthly and Rolling Stone, where he was the foreign-affairs desk chief for 15 years. He is the H.L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., and a frequent panelist on National Public Radio’s game show “Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” The Roy H. Park Distinguished Lecture Series began in October 1999. Sponsored by the Triad Foundation of Ithaca, N.Y., the lectures enhance the Roy H. Park Fellowship Pro-
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Author and political satirist P.J. O’Rourke gives the school’s Roy H. Park Distinguished Lecture in the Carroll Hall auditorium at 5:30 p.m. on April 8, 2010. The event is free and open to the public. Both Time magazine and The Wall Street Journal have labeled O’Rourke, best-selling author of 12 books, “the funniest writer in America.” Born in Toledo, Ohio, he attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and graduate school at Johns Hopkins, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. After receiving a master’s in English, he worked at small newspapers in Baltimore and New York. In the early 1970s, he joined The National Lampoon where he became editor-in-chief. He
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Carroll Hall The school is housed in Carroll Hall, located off the historic Polk Place quad near the center of the University of North Carolina’s campus. The school continues to invest in facilities improvements to provide the space and equipment needed to train the leaders of the next generation of journalists and media professionals. Carroll Hall features state-of-the-art classrooms, labs and facilities for media production. The school is also home to the Roy H. Park Library, the Charles Kuralt Learning Center and the N.C. Halls of Fame in Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations. The Pulitzer Prize won by alumnus Horace Carter and his Tabor City Tribune in 1953 for meritorious public service after the newspaper’s campaign against the Ku Klux Klan is displayed in Carroll Hall just outside of the Halls of Fame.
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The school is transforming room 11 on its ground floor into a 24-hour newsroom where students will work with faculty to produce and distribute news for a variety of audiences. The newsroom and its publications also will function as a research center to study audiences and communities that form around the news. The newsroom and a refitted adjacent computer facility create a hub equipped for students in every specialization taught in the school – reporting, editing and design, broadcasting, photojournalism, multimedia, advertising and public relations.
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The N.C. Halls of Fame room on the first floor is being renovated to better showcase its members. Six large wooden panels that display photos of Hall of Famers are being removed and replaced with new screen displays. New furniture is being added to allow for a variety of seating arrangements and make the room more useful for students, faculty and special events.
Top: Carroll Hall, home of Carolina’s J-school Middle: Computer lab in Carroll Hall Bottom: The view from Carroll Hall to the Polk Place quad at the center of campus
The school has installed museum-quality hanging track in the hallway behind the Carroll Hall 111 auditorium that will allow the school to host exhibits and showcase student work. The first exhibit –“On the Edge: Homeless and Working Among Us”– is a photography project by alumna Susan Sidebottom that runs through the spring 2010 semester. The school also has begun
displaying student and faculty research posters on the second floor outside of the Park Library. The school acquired space adjacent to campus on Franklin Street that serves as a classroom and newsroom for reporting students.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill serves as an educational and economic beacon for the people of North Carolina and beyond. Carolina’s 729-acre central campus is among the most beautiful in the nation. Chartered in 1789, Carolina was the first state university to open its doors when Hinton James became the University’s first student in 1795. It is the only public university in the nation that awarded degrees to students in the 18th century. Chapel Hill is a college town of more than 52,000 residents in the center of the state. Its main avenue, Franklin Street, borders campus and features shops, restaurants, movie theaters and houses of worship. In town are historic districts, a museum, a library, parks, malls, hiking and biking trails, and many recreational facilities. Chapel Hill and the cities of Durham and Raleigh form the boundary of the Research Triangle.
U.S. News & World Report’s 2010 “America’s Best Colleges” edition ranked Carolina the fifth best public university for the ninth consecutive year. Carolina’s 273,684 alumni live in all 50 states and 152 countries. More than 147,800 of those alumni live in nearly all 100 North Carolina counties.
Bottom: The N.C. Halls of Fame in Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations are based in the school.
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Carolina is first among the 100 best U.S. public colleges and universities that offer the best combination of top-flight academics and affordable costs as ranked by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. Carolina has been first in every one of Kiplinger’s periodic surveys since they began in 1998.
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Several national publications publish rankings that list Carolina prominently in categories ranging from academic quality to affordability to diversity to engagement to international presence.
Being Asheville Nestled in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Asheville, N.C., is an eclectic city. Its off-beat nature draws people of all types each year. During the sixth annual Carolina Photojournalism Workshop, students explored the spirit of the city and its surrounding mountains, finding stories of trapeze artists, a homeless blogger, a puppeteer and a family that hosts players for the Asheville Tourists minor league baseball team, among other stories. The project can be found at carolinaphotojournalism.org/cpjw/2009.
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Nic Coker embodies the spirit of bluegrass and old time music, playing at all night jam sessions – not for an audience – but for the musical conversation that develops among the participants.
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Codey Johnston Laurie Fisher plays guitar during an acoustic music jam session.
Michelle May Out of the Box Seventeen-year-old Madison Hood drops out of school, obtains her GED and pursues a career in boxing.
Jessey Dearing Bailey browses Facebook outside of an Asheville public library.
Jessey Dearing Homeless in Asheville Rodney Bailey, 41, spent months living in his van, blogging about his situation, and finding painting jobs to keep his business alive. “Being homeless never crossed my mind ever…it was only literally the day that I was moving out of my home that I realized that I was now homeless, and it’s something I thought I would never experience in a lifetime.“ “I started my blog more for my mental health and sanity and finding something to keep my mind occupied. I think people are following it because they find it an interesting situation and possibly relate to it. These types of things can happen to everyday people.” John Adkisson
Reviving the Times In May 2009, the Baptist Ministers’ Union of Asheville and surrounding counties held the 30th Greater Asheville City-Wide Revival. Visiting pastor Wesley McLaughlin of Petersburg, Va., preached on the theme of unity. “It’s like your car,” he said. “Every now and then you need a tune-up. It gets you geared up and excited again about your relationship with God.”
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1980–1982 Public relations flourishes: In 1980, Carol Reuss revived public relations courses, which were first offered in 1926 when Robert Madry taught two educational publicity courses. The new course “Business and Organizational Communication” was later changed to “Principles of Public Relations.”
international programs fellowship as a new staff position in the school helping to organize and promote additional international opportunities. In summer 2009, associate professor Pat Davison took 21 students to the Galapagos Islands to document different lifestyles and ecosystems throughout the archipelago. The result was a comprehensive photo and video portfolio and a multimedia Web site (livinggalapagos.org). The project is part UNC’s partnership with the Universidad San Francisco de Quito that aims to minimize the direct and indirect human footprint in the Galapagos Islands. Two students lived in Beijing and interned for China.org in 2009 as part of an ongoing exchange program with the news organization. As part of the exchange, two representatives
from the China International Information Center spend a semester at the school each year. In August 2009, eight international scholars from China and Korea arrived as visiting international scholars, an initiative organized by John Thomas Kerr Jr. Distinguished Professor Richard Cole. This year’s group comprises several professors and other academic instructors, as well as professional journalists. The scholars learn about journalism in the U.S. by sitting in on classes. Many serve as guest speakers in classes and work with professors. In October 2009, the school hosted a group of English-speaking Europeans as part of the U.S. State Department’s Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists. The journalists’ visit marked the school’s fourth consecutive year participating in the program. The group spent a full day visiting media organizations in the Triangle, including The News & Observer, WRAL-TV, WUNC and the N.C. Press Association. They also spent two days on campus participating in roundtable and panel discussions, listening to lectures, visiting The Daily Tar Heel and getting a taste of student life at UNC.
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Associate dean for professional education and strategic initiatives Louise Spieler and director of research administration Jennifer Gallina visited Sciences Po in Paris in fall 2009 to strengthen an existing exchange program with UNC. The school also has exchange programs with Catholic University of Argentina in Buenos Aires and the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.
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During the spring 2010 semester, students are participating in a virtual course taught by two professors at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico. The course is the only class at UNC taught by video link between the U.S. and another country.
Student exchange programs
Edward R. Murrow Program Fellows at a reception in Chapel Hill
Sciences Po – Paris, France In the Undergraduate Journalism Program for International Students at Sciences Po, students participate in workshops with professional journalists that focus on basic techniques of reporting and writing, as well as French culture and society. Students also attend lectures with Sciences Po faculty that give historical
background, conceptual tools and critical perspectives related to contemporary journalism. Students take mandatory French-language classes that correspond with their levels of proficiency. Peter Gumbel, a senior writer for Time and editor for Fortune, is coordinator for the program, which is conducted in English. The Catholic University of Argentina partnership began in 2003. UNC students enroll in a full-time course of study taught in Spanish and receive academic support from the Department of International Relations at UCA. Students may enroll in classes at UCA’s Institute of Communication, Journalism and Publicity to supplement their study of communication.
nication technologies, team-taught by faculty from the school and Monterrey Tec. One goal of the course is to provide students from both universities with a cultural exchange. Fudan University – Shanghai, China The school took students to Fudan’s campus in 2007 to work with faculty from both universities on covering the Special Olympics. Additionally, several J-school faculty members have ongoing collaborations with Fudan surrounding individual and group research initiatives. The result is a well-founded partnership on which students and faculty can continue to build.
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The school works with other international institutions through research and teaching collaborations. These partnerships offer students and faculty international experiences other than academic exchange programs. Monterrey Tec – Mexico City, Mexico The school has awarded doctoral degrees to three Monterrey Tec faculty members, and other faculty visit UNC and speak to classes each year. The school also collaborates with Monterrey Tec by taking students enrolled in “International Media Studies” to Mexico City over spring break as a part of the course, which is taught each spring. Spring 2010 marks the first semester of a course on mobile commu-
JAFA reaches out to alumni: The school formed the Journalism Alumni and Friends Association (JAFA) on Jan. 26, 1980, with Reed Sarratt as president. The group, which still exists, aims to keep alumni connected to the school.
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The school’s exchange with the School of Communication at the University of Navarra was established in 2008 and has already taken UNC students to Pamplona and brought Navarra students to Chapel Hill. Navarra’s School of Communication was the first center in Spain to offer journalism education at the university level, and its faculty includes leaders of international associations and media experts from organizations including the BBC. The School of Communication houses four departments (Public Communication; Film, Television and Digital Media; Media Management and Media Economics; Journalism Projects) and offers a variety of courses, with and without English language components, to UNC and other international students.
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Honoring N.C. journalists: The N.C. Journalism Hall of Fame was created to honor individuals who have made outstanding and career-long contributions to journalism. Honorees have to have been born in or have become distinctly identified with North Carolina. The Halls of Fame for advertising and public relations are added in 1988.
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Unbeknownst to most people, there is more to the Galapagos Islands than big turtles and Charles Darwin. On the “Enchanted Islands,” there are people too, about 30,000 according to some estimates, who inhabit four of the 19 major islands of the Galapagos. “This is an unreported story,” said associate professor Pat Davison, who led a group of students to the islands this past summer. “There are a wealth of issues and many people know little about what is going on.” Davison was executive producer for a group of journalism students and professional journalists, acting as project coaches, who traveled to the islands to bring back a picture that most people will never see. The group stayed in the islands for a month, gathering stories about the people, the culture and the issues the islands are facing environmentally and economically.
Andrew Johnson A goat skull rests atop a knoll on Floreana Island in the Galapagos. Goats, an invasive species on the island, once ruined natural flora on the island, but thanks to the work of the Galapagos National Park, they have been all but eradicated.
“Having people there has really changed the environment and threatened it with invasive species, immigration and pollution,” said senior Mike Ehrlich. “If it keeps going down this route, the pristine and beautiful place it has been will be ruined.” Ehrlich was one of 16 students who spent the first two weeks of the trip gathering information and putting together stories about the people and the issues plaguing the various islands. The three project coaches who accompanied the students were available to provide advice for the stories. Ehrlich, who lived on Isabella Island, focused on fishermen and the difficulties they are facing. “I was dealing with issues like the way the fisherman are impacted by tourism, the illegal fishing that goes on and the way that has affected their
Andrew Johnson A sea turtle swims through the sunlit bay. Sea turtles are common in the bay and the waters surrounding San Cristobal.
Courtney Potter Green night lights illuminate Academy Bay as a Quechua-speaking immigrant from the mainland peers over Santa Cruz’s newest dock in the Galapagos Islands. She joins thousands of other immigrants who come to the Islands each year in search of a better future – often at the expense of the island’s natural resources.
Arkasha Stevenson An egret takes flight from the lava rocks that line the beach of Puerto Villamil on Isabela.
illegal immigration, hospitals, the youth culture, a priest who runs four churches and even goat hunters, who help eradicate the invasive goat species that are causing environmental problems. “It was a really unique experience to be completely immersed in a project from the moment you wake up until the moment you fall asleep,” Ehrlich said. After gathering the information for two weeks, the photographers met with the rest of the group on San Cristobal Island at the Galapagos Academic Institute for the Arts and Sciences (GAIAS) for two more weeks to create a way to display the information.
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reputations,” Ehrlich said. “Also, a big part was the relationship between the fishermen and the Galapagos National Park, which is basically the main governing body of the Galapagos.” Spending two weeks on Isabella, which is one of the less populated islands, provided him a look into the lives of the islanders that few have seen. “Most tourists who visit Isabella stay on the tour boat and don’t really see the island for what it is,” Ehrlich said. “We stayed there for almost a whole month, so we were almost honorary locals. You see the same people five times a day, so you really get to know them.” Other students did stories on topics such as
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“ It was a really unique experience to be completely immersed in a project from the moment you wake up until the moment you fall asleep.”
Justin Spinks A male blue-footed booby offers a twig to a potential mate as part of the courtship process.
Arkasha Stevenson An iguana yawns while lounging on Puerto Villamilnapos’s beach on Isabela Island.
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For 30 years, Lonesome George has been an international icon for conservation, but little is known about his caretaker, Fausto Llerena, and his efforts to protect the tortoises. Fausto, pictured at left with Lonesome George, works at the breeding center within the national park to help protect and breed the giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands.
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Five of the students on the trip were charged with building a Web site designed to effectively get the information out. The final product, titled “Living Galapagos,” is a Web site containing 18 student videos, panoramic photos, slideshows and information graphics. Emily Yount, a senior who worked on the design team, said the team decided to use a map interface that would allow the viewer to see in which islands and villages the stories were taking place. “I didn’t know what the shape of the islands was or how many there were before we went,” Yount said. “So we wanted to show pinpoints of where all the stories took place; that way people could have a perspective.” The design team, with the help of the photogra-
phers, created sidebars to provide context for the stories. Examples of sidebars include slideshows of additional photos, panoramic shots with audio and information graphics. For Yount, the journalism experience was invaluable. “Working on a project that was this extensive and combined so many elements was such a good learning experience,” Yount said. “I had only taken one class on the topic, so it was incredible to see how the photographer’s work and our work could come together to make something so cool.” “We were in one of the most remote and beautiful places left on the planet, and there was plenty of time to take a step back and enjoy the experience,” Ehrlich said. “Every day on San Cristobal, we would
Jessey Dearing Playa Mann is the favored beach of college students and local children who attend a nearby school.
Elias Sinkus A pair of waved albatrosses show their affection. Espanola Island is their breeding ground and the only place they are found on the Galapagos.
Andrew Johnson Tropical fish are cleaned while pelicans look on at Tijeretas Bay.
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take a break at 5:30 and watch the sunset over the Pacific Ocean and hang out with some sea lions.” Summer 2009 marked the ninth year students have gone on a summer trip to build a multimedia Web site about a significant international locale. Davison and his predecessor have previously taken groups to Chile, Spain, South Africa, Peru and Thailand. Davison said he decided on the archipelagos because there is an established relationship between Galapagos Academic Institute for the Arts and Sciences and the UNC Center for Galapagos Studies, which does research in the islands about the effects of invasive species and how to fix the problems they cause. “This seemed like a great opportunity for
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1990 Outgrowing a name: In recognition of its broadened scope, the school’s name changed to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication to reflect the diversity and broadness of the school’s instruction. At the time, more than 70 percent of the school’s undergraduates were in programs other than news-editorial journalism.
• A $25,000 gift from Horace Carter underwrote Tom Bowers’ history of journalism education at UNC, “Making News: One Hundred Years of Journalism and Mass Communication at Carolina.”
Fiscal Year 2009 Giving July 1, 2008–June 30, 2009 More than 1,700 donors made gifts to the school totaling $4.67 million in fiscal year 2008-09.
• Capstrat completed an endowment for its scholarship, which also provides the recipient with a summer internship at the Raleigh-based communications agency.
Giving highlights: • The Triad Foundation continued its generous support of the graduate program, making it possible to attract the nation’s best graduate students to the school. This year, 22 new graduate students received Roy H. Park Fellowships funded by the Triad Foundation.
• Mel Sharoky again provided funding so students could intern during the summer in Washington, D.C. • A $50,000 gift from Julia Morton completed the endowment for the Hugh Morton Distinguished Professorship in Journalism and Mass Communication.
• For consecutive years, gifts in-kind of software and licensing valued at $500,000 from CustomScoop and KDPaine & Partners allows public relations students to study corporate reputation in the media using the most up-to-date industry software.
• A $3.5 million gift from the estate of Reese Felts is funding a new digital news and research initiative in the school. The gift also funds a new distinguished professorship.
• An endowment created from the estate of John H. Stembler will establish a distinguished professorship in the school.
• The North Carolina Association of Broadcasters (NCAB), the North Carolina Cable Telecommunications Association (NCCTA), the Hearst Corporation and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication Foundation of North Carolina raised more than $200,000 to establish the Wade H. Hargrove Communications Law and Policy Colloquium honoring the Raleigh attorney.
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• A $50,000 gift from alumna Erika Canady and her husband, Randall, established the Canady International Scholarship to help students take advantage of international opportunities.
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• A gift in-kind from Canon USA allows photojournalism students to use the latest equipment in producing photo stories and multimedia projects.
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Charles Gerrard Society Planned giving has helped fulfill the University’s vision for more than 200 years. Revolutionary War hero Maj. Charles Gerrard made a bequest in 1797, and the University completed construction on Gerrard Hall in 1837. The building still stands today – a tribute to Maj. Gerrard’s generosity and a testament to the lasting impact of planned gifts. Gerrard’s bequest and the planned gifts of others ever since have helped build Carolina and strengthened teaching, research and public service at the University. The Charles Gerrard Society recognizes the hundreds of alumni and friends who have made a commitment to Carolina’s future through planned gifts including bequests, trusts, gift annuities and life insurance. All alumni and friends who document their planned gifts to the University are welcomed as members of the Gerrard Society. These members of the Gerrard Society have made documented planned gifts to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication:
If you have placed the school in your will, and you are not listed, or if you have questions about planned giving, please contact Speed Hallman, associate dean for development and alumni affairs, at 919.962.9467 or speed_hallman@unc.edu.
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Raleigh attorney Wade Hargrove was honored Oct. 28 at the Carolina Inn with a surprise ceremony announcing the establishment of an annual media law colloquium in his honor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. More than $200,000 for the Wade H. Hargrove Communications Law and Policy Colloquium was raised by the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters (NCAB), the North Carolina Cable Telecommunications Association (NCCTA), the Hearst Corporation and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication Foundation of North Carolina. Hargrove, a partner with Brooks Pierce in Raleigh, has been NCAB executive director and general counsel for more than 39 years, NCCTA general counsel for 30 years, Wade H. Hargrove and Hearst communications regulatory counsel for 20 years. He has supported the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the UNC School of Law as an adviser, volunteer and donor. The colloquium will feature an annual public address at UNC by a prominent national figure in communications law and public policy. The speaker will also meet with students and industry leaders. Hargrove, who was appointed to the University’s Board of Trustees this year, was the driving force behind the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy, a national forum for the media industry, legal scholars and practitioners to discuss emerging issues at the intersection of media and law. The center is a collaboration of the UNC journalism and law schools.
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Suzanne Banzet Horace Carter* Paul and Ronni Gardner Roland Giduz* Larry and Carolyn Keith John T. Kerr III Charlie and Margaret Nelson Debra Pickrel Joseph Sanders Sebastian Sommer William Traynor Glenn Tucker Faye Massengill Van Hecke Linda Wilson Albert Woodard
Attorney Wade Hargrove honored with media law colloquium at UNC
1991 Thinking visually: Visual communication became a separate sequence headed by Rich Beckman. In 1998, Beckman introduced multimedia courses, teaching students to integrate text, photographs, video, audio and animation into CDROMs and Web sites.
Donors to the school July 1, 2008 –June 30, 2009 The honor roll below recognizes contributors to the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the school’s foundation from July 1, 2008, through June 30, 2009. Bold type identifies Dean’s Circle donors – individuals who have contributed $1,000 or more and organizations that have contributed $5,000 or more this fiscal year. Alumni who graduated in the last 10 years qualify for Dean’s Circle membership at reduced levels. Donors give generously, empowering the school’s faculty and students to excel in their teaching, research and service missions. Adams-Jacobson Endowment Charles Patrick Adams Jr. and Jamie Susan Jacobson Joel Gregory Curran
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Advertising Allen Marshall Bosworth IV C. Brandon Cooke Susan Fowler Credle Richard Lingham Fisher Peter Broemmel Lee Pamela Denise Long Sarah Foscue Merrell Rachel Alexander Parks Patricia Lee Rosenbaum William Daniel Wester Jr. The Advertising Women of New York Scholarship Award Advertising Women of New York Foundation
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Floyd Alford Jr. Scholarship Julia W. Alford Phillip Alston Scholarship Joel King and Edith Winslow Bourne
Donors make a difference in the lives of students. Quotes in this section are taken from thank you letters to donors from scholarship recipients.
Peggy Allen Internship Danny Robert and Sharon Ann Lineberry The Daily Tar Heel Nelson Benton Memorial Fund Landon R. Wyatt Jr. and Kathryn Benton Wyatt John Bittner Fund Denise Alexander Bittner Larry Dean Stone Jr.
Margaret A. Blanchard Scholarship Fraser Berkley Hudson Pamela Carol Laucella Nancy Cole Pawlow Tom Bowers Scholarship Emily Mason Ballance Thomas and Mary Ellen Bowers Jane Young Choi Owen Andrew Hassell Mark Christopher Holmes Fraser Berkley Hudson Sharon H. Jones Gregory Mark and Holly Hart Makris Nancy Cole Pawlow Randy Rennolds Dana Scott Rosengard Diane Harvey Bradley Scholarship David Bradley Suzanne M. Presto Rick Brewer Scholarship Megan Eliza Collins J. Bryant Kirkland III Meggan Everidge Monroe Lenox Daniel Rawlings III Jack Carleson and Penny Abrahams Rogers Rebecca Branch Swift Julia Garner Wilson Francis Xavier Zang Peter Jude Zifchak Jane Brown Research Gift Fund Jane Delano Brown
Cole C. Campbell Professional Development Fund Jane Elizabeth Albright Constance Campbell Brough Sharon D. Campbell Kathryn Louise Hopper George Tompkins John Albert Campbell III Scholarship Elizabeth Gardner Braxton Canady International Scholarship Erika Williams Canady Capstrat Scholarship Capstrat Inc. Carolinas Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Society Scholarship Fund Carolinas Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Society Carroll Hall Renovation Fund Capitol Broadcasting Co. Triangle Community Foundation The Robin Clark Experience William Banks Bohannon Patrice Jane Dickey Glenn Richard and Ann Clark Howell Margaret Olivia Kirk Marjo Edwina Rankin Susan Patricia Shackelford David Alan Zucchino O.J. Coffin Memorial Scholarship John Thomas Stephens Jr.
Lois and H.C. Cranford Jr. Endowment Jacqueline Phillips Bowles James V. D’Aleo Award of Courage Robert I. and Karen D’Aleo Joseph and Andrea Diorio Victoria Smith Ekstrand Kathy Olson Dana Scott Rosengard F. Weston Fenhagen Scholarship for International Students George M. Brady Jr. John Carlson and Caitlin Fenhagen Nancy P. Weston Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving Mary Kathryn Forbes Scholarship Charles Edward and Katherine Purvis Forbes Stephen Gates Scholarship Ronald R. Arnold James A. Auer Mark Alan Baratta Serene Anson Bartoletti William R. Bearding Matthew Wade and Laura Thomas Blanchard Donald Arthur Boulton Carl E. Boyer James W. Brown Megan Eliza Collins Frank Rockwell Comfort Joan Conner Harvey Lindenthal Cosper Jr. and Kathryn Perrin Cosper Dale‐Anna Carroll Cryan Walter K. Cupples Anthony F. Dardy
“ You have enabled me to give something back to my family, who has supported me in all ways possible throughout my life. That means so much to me, and I have you to thank.” Richard Cole Fund Bonnie Angelo John K. Bahr Jo Ellen Bass Joyce Lee Fitzpatrick Troy Kenneth Hales Bryant Allen Haskins James Russell Hefner III Jennifer Broadbent Milligan Merrill Rose L. Joseph Sanders Fitzpatrick Communications
Charles Ricketts Dike Shelia Duell Charles E. Gates George Anthony Gates III and Patricia Kennedy Gates Godfrey Gayle Frank Boynton Heath Ken and Carol N. Hopper Fred L. Hsu L.G. Jeffcoat Raymond Lewis Jefferies Jr. Bridget B. Johnson
Graduate Program Lucila Vargas John L. Greene Fund John Lee Greene Jr. John Harden Scholarship Mark Michael Harden Charles Hauser Scholarship Fund Robert Donald Benson William Storr Cormeny Jane Edwards Hauser
Harvey F. Laffoon Scholarship Grace Laffoon
The Hoffman Award Jeffrey R. Hoffman
LPGA Scholarships Ladies Professional Golf Association
William & Barbara Hooker Library Trust Fund William H. & Barbara P. Hooker Trust Fund Paul Green Houston Scholarship Joan Pinkerton Filson T. Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Pete Ivey Scholarship Judson Davie DeRamus Jr. and Sarah Ivey DeRamus E. Eugene Jackson Scholarship Estate of Eugene E. Jackson Edward Jackson International Scholarship Program R. Edward Jackson Journalism Equipment Triangle Community Foundation Journalism Scholarships Crystal Nicole Calloway Douglas Oliver Cumming Ann Murphy Freeman Ellen Marie Gilliam Sari Nicolle Harrar Stephanie Elizabeth Jordan‐ Schwind Harriet Sue Sugar Julia Groves Walsh David Earl Wells Arizona State University N.C. Psychoanalytic Foundation Journalism Special Fund Robert and Laura Brown W. Horace Carter Tiffany Devereux Estate of Roland Giduz Kenneth Wayne Lowe William Irvin Morton Joseph Higgins and Jean D. Nelson Capital Cities ABC IBM Corp. Scripps Networks Interactive Keever Scholarship W. Glenn and Nancy Caldwell Keever Charles Kuralt Learning Center Thurman W. Worthington Jr.
Mackey-Byars Scholarship Napoleon Bonaparte and Queenie Mackey Byars Donna Whitaker Rogers Raleigh Mann Scholarship Kendra Leigh Gemma Geoffrey Michael Graybeal Meggan Everidge Monroe Amy Marie Sharpe Maxwell Graduate Scholarship in Medical Journalism Kenneth and Tracey Scruggs Maxwell
Daniel A. Murphy Endowment Fund in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication Estate of Daniel A. Murphy
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N.C. Black Publishers Scholarship Charles Paul Ernest Harold Pitt Winston‐Salem Foundation Winston-Salem Chronicle N.C. Community Media Project Rachel LaVerne Lillis Thomas W. Marshall N.C. Press Association/ N.C. Press Services Scholarship N.C. Press Association News-Editorial John Bayliff Frank
Molly McKay Scholarship Ashley Hartmann Ralph James and Carole Ann McKay
Ron Paris Fund Robert Lamar Beall Jr. Joy Franklin Ashley B. Futrell Jr. State Port Pilot
Mexico/Cuba Student Travel Fund Frederick Dana Hutchison Triangle Community Foundation
Roy H. Park Fellowship for Graduate Students Triad Foundation
RTVMP joins the school: The Department of Radio, Television and Motion Pictures was eliminated and the school assumed the responsibility for broadcast journalism and video production courses. The broadcast journalism sequence became electronic communication in 1994.
“ This scholarship came at a very important time for me as I was struggling to make ends meet after my parents withdrew their financial support and after not being approved for a loan I desperately needed. To say I was overjoyed when I heard the news of receiving this scholarship is an understatement. I’m not sure you can fully grasp how appreciative I am, but you have given me the chance to experience something I have dreamed of for a very long time.” Joseph Morrison Memorial Peter Seth Morrison
Pfizer Minority Medical Journalism Scholarship Pfizer Inc.
Hugh Morton Distinguished Professorship in Journalism and Mass Communication William Grimes Cherry III Catherine Walker Morton Julia Taylor Morton Rolfe Neill John S. & James L. Knight Foundation
Pruden Graduate Fellowship Estate of Peter Pruden Jr. Public Relations Anne Virginia Godwin Julie Anne Sass Carol Reuss Fund Carol Reuss
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Gift in Kind Charlie Tuggle Canon USA CustomScoop KDPaine & Partners Leaderboard Awards
William Hearst Fund William Randolph Hearst Foundations
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Pamela A. Kennedy Carolyn C. Kingman Craig Thomas Kocher Sally S. Kocher Mitchell Lynn Kokai James J. Krasula Dennis Krause Joseph R. Locicero Lois R. Lunne Charles Mallue III Dennis Michael Manchester Dennis P. Mankin Ryan Michael McDonough Thomas William McHugh Gates McKibbin Marilyn McPhillips Stuart Mease Beth Miller Vicki Harrison Murray Alan W. and Eloise C. Neebe Micki Ware Owens Elnora Piscopo S. Tinsley Preston Annette Fields Raines Sue Meador Rodier John Charles Rose Alton Glenn and Frances Turner Ross Steven R. Sarcione Eric Shaun Schneider Sr. Pamela S. Schneider Josephine C. Sharpe David E. Slade Nancy Snee Gary Sobba Tom Trotta and Lorenda Tiscornia Susan Elizabeth Walsh Claire Stroup Walton Kandice Weglin Andrea Michelle Wessell Bill Harold Whitley Jr. Robert L. Wilson Miles H. Wolff Joshua Alden Wroniewicz Lunne Marketing Group Inc. ROI Technologies Inc. Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving
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W. Horace Carter 1921 –2009
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The school lost a great friend in Carolina journalism alumnus and Pulitzer Prize winner W. Horace Carter, who died Sept. 16, 2009, in Tabor City, N.C. He was 88. Carter’s storied career as a journalist included a campaign in the 1950s against the Ku Klux Klan resulting in an FBI investigation and more than 100 convictions of Klansmen. Despite threats of violence to Carter and his family, he wrote and published more than 100 stories and editorials in The Tabor City Tribune that denounced the Klan. Carter and The Tribune, along with editor Willard Cole and the nearby Whiteville News Reporter, won the Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service in 1953 for the campaign against the Klan. The Tribune was the first weekly newspaper to win a Pulitzer. The Pulitzer’s official citation read: “For their successful campaign against the Ku Klux Klan, waged on their own doorstep at the risk of economic loss and personal danger, culminating in the conviction of over one hundred Klansmen and an end to terrorism in their communities.” “He was an inspiration to many, and friend to everyone he met, and a legend in community journalism for over 50 years,” his son Rusty said in a Sept. 19 story in the Wilmington Star News. “His commitment to social justice, God and country, his family and friends never wavered regardless of the challenge.” Carter still owned The Tribune, now The TaborLoris Tribune, which also serves Loris, S.C. The
newspaper is published by Atlantic Publishing, a company Carter started that his son now runs. He continued to write columns for the paper, published more than 2,000 magazine articles, and wrote more than 20 books. Carter was born in Albemarle, N.C., on Jan. 20, 1921. He served in the Navy, in both the North Atlantic and the Pacific, during World War II. While at Carolina, he was the editor of The Tar Heel student newspaper, which later became The Daily Tar Heel. After leaving Carolina in 1943, he founded The Tribune in 1946. He was inducted into the N.C. Journalism Hall of Fame in 1983; received an honorary degree from Carolina in 2000; and was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the state’s highest civilian honor, in 2007. In a Sept. 21 editorial in The Daily Tar Heel entitled “A mighty pen: Carter set example of integrity for journalists, citizens,” Carter is described as “a warrior armed with a pen.” But Carter also was known for his generosity. In the same editorial, professor emeritus Tom Bowers was quoted as saying that Carter was “always grateful to the University and to the department of journalism.” Carter donated his Pulitzer gold medal to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 1991 to inspire future journalists to fight for justice and high principles. He also gave $25,000 to publish Bowers’ “Making News: One Hundred Years of Journalism and Mass Communication at Carolina.” And through a pooled income fund and a gift annuity, Carter made planned gifts to the school to provide opportunities to students. Carter’s children established the W. Horace Carter Distinguished Professorship in his honor at the school to help extend the impact of their father’s legacy.
Michael John Sauer Scholarship for Sports Communication Mary Jo Hester Cashion George-Ann M. Sauer Mary Ann Weitz Susan Weitz School of Journalism and Mass Communication International Fund Estate of Robert L. Stevenson
Richard Dale Boner Jane L. Boone Jeremy Scott Borden Norman David Borden Cynthia McCanse Borgmeyer Gwendolyn Michele Bounds Patricia Atkinson Bowers Loretta Bowlby‐Herbek Betty Holliday Bowman Octavia Beard Bowman Tammy Marie Bowman Jill Wienberry Boy Debra Harris Boyette Lois A. Boynton Bethany Litton Bradsher Charles Delaine Bradsher William Jeffery Brady Faye Riley Branca Michael Arthur Brannock Shelia Perry Brannum Gregory Dean Braswell Linda Slawter Braswell James Brenner and Nancy Appleby Magda Ingrid Breuer E. Lawrence Brew Richard Franklin Brewer Mark Robert and Presley Cours Bright Larry Wayne Britt Rosemary Osborn Britt Charles Wilson Broadwell Nancy Weatherly Bromhal Kelly Gangloff Brooks Linwood Cohn and Joyce Carmichael Brooks Sam Willis Brooks Jr. and Anita Krichmar
Pearle Long Buchanan Carl William Buchholz Francis Asbury Buhrman Jr and Cassandra Buhrman E. Harry Bunting Jr. and Elizabeth Cochrane Bunting Mary Gardner Burg Oscar Nesbitt Burgess Jr. Betsy Eugenia Burke A. Michael Burnett Sally Elizabeth Burrell Deborah Navey Burriss Robert Scidmore and Dolores da Parma Bursch Sean Conor and Heather Lambert Busher Edward Winslow Butchart Judy Burke Bynum Beverly Gleason Byrnes Martha Till Cade J. Neal Cadieu Jr. Katharine Jones Calhoun Joan McLean Callaway Ann Stephenson Cameron David Lewis Camp Brenda Lee Campbell Erika Williams Canady Claudia C. Cannady F. Scott Canterberry Lee Hood Capps Dale Carlson John Chris Carmichael Carol Louise Carnevale Carolyn Hof Carpenter Cheryl Beth Carpenter Rhonda Faith Cox Carpenter Peter‐Michael and Janet Potter Carr Kent Hunter Carrington
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Parks enhance graduate studies: The Park Foundation of Ithaca, N.Y., now the Triad Foundation, pledged $5.5 million for the first five years of the Park Fellowship Program, funding graduate educations in the school. The program began in 1997 and continues today.
Jessica Emily Brosch Corey Lamar Brown Gregory Dale Brown Sherri Berrier Brown Sumner Brown ToNola Doris Brown‐Bland Paul Christopher Browne and Kimberly Elaine Sanders Christian Richard Bruning IV Joseph Alan Bryan George Badger Bryant III Robert Craig and Brandee Potts Bryant Ralph Godfrey Buchan Jr. Anne A. Buchanan
Lester Martin Carson Susan Keith‐Lucas Carson Robert Lewis Carswell Gazelia Payne Carter Eugene Venable Carver Caroline Wiggs Cate Joan Roberts Cates Susan Mauney Catron Benji P. Cauthren Martyn John and Julie Austin Cavallo Joseph A. Cech III Virginia Holt Cepeda Fran Cernocky Chalfant John David Chapla Tonya Widemon Cheek
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“ Once again, I just want to thank you so very much for your generosity in helping to support the school of journalism and its students. Your support helps to ensure that the school and its students continue to lead the field of journalism and make a positive impact on both the surrounding community as well as on a national scale.”
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School of Journalism and Mass Communication Foundation Corinne Anderson Adams Jerome Robertson Adams Thomas Joseph Ahern Jr. Patsy M. Albrecht G. Craig Allen Jr. Melyssa R. Allen Michael Miller Allen Susan Williams Allen Elizabeth Cox Alley Ray Shores Alley Frank James and Barbara Brown Allston Deborah Helms Alston O. Donald and Patricia Watson Ambrose Sharon Hockman Ames Paula Vallas Anastopoulo Henry Watkins Anderson Linda Frances Anderson Marjorie Jordan Andrea Amy C. Andrews Jo Boney Andrews R. Frank Andrews IV Wilson Mark Andrews Morgan David Arant Jr. Ellen Hubbard Archibald Mary Hamilton Arcure William Griffin Arey Jr. Enrique and Carolina Rutledge Armijo Larry Rice and Elizabeth Smith Armstrong Judith Carol Arnold Odette Embert Arnold Elisabeth Blake Arrington Susan Dean Arrington James Jordan Ashley III Catherine Lynne Atchison Tamara Overman Atkins Amanda Harding Atkinson Tracey Vacca Atkinson Wendy Hunsucker Austin Erwin Theodore Avery Jr. Benjamin Franklin Aycock V and Heidi Eli Aycock James Greer Babb Jr. and Mary Lou Babb MacKenzie Coleman Babb Courtney Flaks Baginski Austin Bailey Robert Reece Bailey Crystal Baity Kaylee Ann Baker
Susie Elizabeth Baker Emily Mason Ballance Garry Lee Ballance Thomas Angelo and Paige Fulbright Ballus Mark Alan Baratta Amy Elizabeth Barefoot Evelyn Faison Barge Suzy Maynard Barile Ellen Downs Barnes Virginia Breece Barnes Barbara Ann Barnett Pamela Hall Barnhardt Frances Keller Barr Richard Madison and Rachel Stiffler Barron Frank C. Barrows and Mary Stewart Newsom Kenneth Houston Barton Jo Ellen Bass Leah Efird Bass Jason Bates E. Thomas Baysden Jr. and Cynthia Bullard Baysden Michael Andrew Beadle Thomas Carlisle Beam Jr. Charles Bassett Beasley Robert Locke Beatty Jennifer Knesel Beaudry Gail Place Beaver Andrew Ross Bechtel Elizabeth Richey Beck John Michael and Jane Strader Beck Judd DuPont Beckwith William Lockett Beerman Jr. John Tjark Behm Jr. and Laura Elliott Behm Clara Bond Bell Meredith Boyer Bell George Elliott Benedict IV J. Goodwin Bennett Thomas Fleetwood and Betsy Lark Burnett Benning Erin D. Berge Samuel Jay and Nancy Badt Bernstein David Lee and Cammie M. Berrier John Monie Betts Jr. Camden Charles and Sara Bartholomees Betz Adam Bianchi and Crystal‐ Fair Chalaron Melbourne Mary Ellen Lloyd Biery Margaret Goldsborough Bigger Pamela Hildebran Bilger Kathy Pitman Birkhead Jesse and Jody Bissette Elizabeth Kathleen Black S. Norman Black Jr. and Beverly Lakeson Black Charles Franklin Blackburn Jr. and Marsha Lamm Blackburn Shannon Burroughs Blackley Edwin Tuttle Blackman Jr. Lisa Dowis Blackmore Amy Cash Blalock Stanley Bertram and June E. Blum
Peter Anthony and Natalie Dick Chepul Norman Chernoff Mary Alys Voorhees Cherry Cecil Cherry III Keith David Childers Philip Hoyt Childers and Kimberly B. Walsh‐ Childers Paula Grisette Christakos Margot F. Christensen Hwi‐Man Chung and Yun Hi Choi George Worthington Civils
Amy Armfield Clark Douglas George Clark Ann Clarke Johanna Lynn Cleary Ann Sawyer Cleland Michael and June Clendenin John Clifford George William and Margaret Alford Cloud Brenda Carr Clough Henry Luther Coble Richard Livingston Coble Jr. Katherine Blixt Cody
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Remembering Stephen Gates
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It has been more than six years since Stephen Kennedy Gates, a 1998 J-school broadcasting graduate and a member of the Tar Heel Sports Network radio crew, died in a hit-and-run accident. He was 27 years old. Stephen’s professional colleagues called him a rising star. He received the Telly Award honoring outstanding regional and national programs, the William Randolph Hearst Certificate of Special Merit for excellence in radio broadcast news, the N.C. Baseball Broadcaster of the Year Award and the Burlington Indians’ All-time Broadcaster Memorial Award. His career began as student intern in 1996. He was the radio voice of UNC baseball and women’s basketball; the sideline reporter for football; and the scoreboard and post-game call-in host for men’s basketball. Family, friends, colleagues, sponsors and fans created a scholarship in his honor at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication for qualified students committed to a career in sports broadcasting. Gifts to the scholarship fund may be made online or in the mail to: Stephen Kennedy Gates Memorial Scholarship Fund School of Journalism and Mass Communication UNC-Chapel Hill Campus Box 3365 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 For more information, contact the school’s development and alumni affairs office at 919.962.3037 or e-mail jomc@unc.edu.
James W. Coghill Allan E. Cohen Gerry Farmer Cohen Kelly Furr Cohen Sara Frisch Coleman Lynn Wareh Coles Renee Rader Colle Kathryn Sue Collins Kevin Joseph Collins Sheri Mingle Collins Stephanie Mingle Collins Tracy Pruitt Collins Wendell Wood Collins Mary Clark Connell Courtney Sanders Connor J. Montgomery Cook Karin Turner Cook Mark Edward Cook Jane Cappio Cooke Linda Yvonne Cooper Susan Hughes Cooper Dorothy Coplon Maureen Hines Coppola
Barbara S. D’Anna Liane Crowe Davenport Maria Coakley David Shannon Marie David William Davie Paul Tripp Davies Hannah Martha Davis Helen S. Davis Herbert Edward Davis Jr. James Allyn Davis Lynn Davis Michael Aaron Davis Nancy Katherine Davis Virginia Kate Davis Noelle Marie Dean Kim Ruhl Dearth Wesley Lane Deaton Joseph Albert DeBlasio Derek Stevens DeBree Christopher Richard DeFranco Rebecca Anne Denison William Austin Dennis
“ This scholarship is a tremendous blessing to me, as I have to pay for a portion of my tuition every year – a feat that becomes increasingly difficult as I don’t have a regular income. My family and I are incredibly thankful!” Mary Riggle Cornatzer Thomas John Corrigan J. Leigh Cotter Sara Fitzhenry Coughlin Coline Smith Covington William Riddick Cowper III Richard Pearson Cowperthwait Helen Parks Cox Emily Smyth Cozart Michael Alan Cozza Kenneth Robert Craig Sara LaMotte Crane Lois Ribelin Cranford Lisa Stewart Crater Mary Lou Craven Charles Gordon Crawley Glenn Stevenson Crihfield Jr. and Susanne George Crihfield Crown Communications Elizabeth Anne Crumpler Jessica Blue Cunningham Philip R. Currie Kara Iverson Cvijanovich Kristin Biddulph Dabar Diana Lynn D’Abruzzo Tony and Cynthia Dalton Jayne Childs Daly Susana Lee Dancy Caroline Elizabeth Dangson Charles Rufus Daniel Jr. Kathryn Lee Daniel Kenneth William Daniels and Angela Brady‐Daniels Barbara Parker Danley
Derek Wayland Denton Stacey M. Derk Margaret Laurens deSaussure Bradley Lee Dezern Lella T. Dezern Blake Dicosola Laura Hammel Dicovitsky Christopher Joseph and Jennifer Sucher DiGiovanna Katherine Faye Dinterman Emily Ogburn Doak Casey William Dobson and Sherry Elaine Miller Anne Marie Dodd Jean Huske Dodd Sherrie Marchant Donecker Claire Robbins Dorrier Linda Brown Douglas Dru Dowdy Patricia Rogers Dozier John Ernest Drescher Jr. Sandra Snyder Drew Derwin Lathan Dubose Sherrie Venable Duke Andrew Wayne and Alison Shepherd Duncan Kathleen Jane Dunlap Casey Brenelle Dunlevie Thomas Edwin and June Dunn Elizabeth Gray Dunnagan Miriam Evans DuPuy Debra Kaniwec Durbin Jennifer Eileen Dure Carol Anne Bennett Durham
“ I am from a very small town in western North Carolina. Attending a university is a very prestigious honor in my town. I am one of only four students at UNC-Chapel Hill from my high school. My parents own a small dairy farm, and attending college was a worry for me because of the financial burden that it would place on my parents. Through generous gifts from donors, like yourselves, I have been able to further my education with a smaller impact on my family.” Robert Alan and Marsha Newton Golombik Peggie Jean Goode James T. Gooding Jr. and Karen F. Gooding William Fountain and Leigh Jenkins Goodwyn Charles Frank Gordon Jr. W. Reece Graham IV and Margaret Mooring Graham Gurney Wingate Grant Kelly Doyle Gray Blake Green Elizabeth Adams Green Heath Lane and Andrea Cashion Greene Pauline Nearman Greene Roy McDowell Greene Tracy Edwards Greene Christen Smith Greer Sue A. Greer Scott Hamilton Greig Alissa Gail Grice William B. Grifenhagen Patricia Ellen Griffin Stephen Deacon Grubbs Charlene Grunwaldt John Ferrel and Kathleen Anne Guillory Rebecca Sirkin Gunter Stephanie Lynn Gunter
Goodbye Howell, Hello Carroll: The school moved to Carroll Hall nearly a decade after Cole began a letter-writing campaign for a new space for journalism on campus. A dedication was held the weekend of March 31 – April 2, 2000. The new home to journalism included the Charles Kuralt Learning Center, the new N.C. Halls of Fame room and the Freedom Forum Conference Center.
“ I am forever indebted to the invaluable resources at UNC’s journalism school: the professors who show vested interest in their students’ careers; the curriculum that both challenges us and teaches us how learning can be interactive; and the outside sponsors like you and many others who reward students for having lofty goals coupled with acute ambition.”
Phillip Warren and Marie Karres Gurkin Debra Harper Gutenson David Warner Guth Leonard Julius Guyes John Brian Hackney L. Allen Hahn Elizabeth T. Haigler Parker Colleen A. Haikes Mary Cameron Haines
Barbara Gula Hayes Daniel Marshall Haygood J. Duncan and Jayne Hamlet Hays Ruth Davis Heafner Louis Roy Heckler Susan Williams Heffren Kathryn Cooley Heiser Elaine Gaulden Helms Winifred Martin Helton
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Mark and Lisa Langley Fey William Henderson Fields Laura Loeffler Findlan Luchina Lenay Fisher Susan Oakley Fisher Elizabeth Anne Flagler Dolores L. Flamiano Michael Dickey and Virginia Martin Fleming Kristin Wood Flenniken Laura Nielsen Fogt Adrienne Layman Fontaine Danielle Bridgette Forword Katharine Moseley Foster Elissa Smith Fowler Martha Durham Fowler Rochelle B. Fowler Scott Stephen and Elise Mundy Fowler Thomas Stockton Fox III and Mary Catherine Ray Fox Elizabeth Hartel Franklin Steven Alan and Karen Matthews Frazelle Bill and Emily Battle Freehling Ann Murphy Freeman Marie Thompson Freeze Robert H. Friedman Christopher Martin Fuller Deborah Simpkins Fullerton Lee Thornton Furches Gary Douglas and Sandra Herring Gaddy Carol Gallant Rebecca Smith Galli William Hunter and Jessica Gillespie Gammon Kara Elizabeth Gannon Eduardo Alberto and Enriquetta Garcia David Allen Garrison Jennifer Ann Dunlap Garver E. Clayton Gaskill Jr. Adam J. Geller James Franklin Gentry Jr. Hunter Thompson George Jennifer Diane Gertner Shailendra Ghorpade Thomas Herrick Gianakos Dona Fagg Gibbs John R. Gibson Morton Joseph Glasser Charlie Upshaw and Patricia Moore Glazener Howard Gibson Godwin Jr. Colleen Crystal Natasha Goffe Scott David Gold
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W. Harry Durham Carol Reese Dykers Diane Hanna Earl Jon David East Michael Clifton Eatmon Susan Johnson Ebbs Lauren Rippey Eberle Derek John and Teresa Clark Eberwein Kristin Scheve Eckart Susan Datz Edelman Cobi Bree Edelson J. Gary and Debra Rogers Edge Charles Guy Edmundson Seth Alan Effron and Nancy Gertrude Thomas Gregory George Efthimiou Jamal Laurence El‐Hindi Jamison Caskey Elizondo George Maron El‐Khouri Gregory Edwin Eller Grace‐Marie Blades Elliott Samuel Michael and Ruth Reece Elliott Hunter Gray Ellis Morgan Brantley Ellis Robert Anthony Ellison Charles Frederick Ellmaker David Charles Ennis Joy Cox Ennis Racheal Ennis John Walter C. Entwistle III and Marielle Stachura Entwistle Donna Maria Epps D. Brent Ericson and Sally Ellen Pearsall Florence McLeod Ervin Rhonda Francine Ervin‐ Parker David Wesley Etchison Russell Furbee Ethridge Kenneth LeRoy Eudy Jr. Johnna L. Everett Harris Factor Phyllis Annette Fair Thomas Ellison Faison Henry Wayne Farber Kimberlie Jean Farlow G. Thomas Fawcett Jr. Frank Edward Fee Jr. Robert Steven Feke Twyla Ann Fendler Randolph B. Fenninger Jr. Thomas Russell Ferguson Jr. Kristina L. Ferrari Christine Yates Ferrell Daniel Luther Fesperman Lori Morrison Fetner
David Robert and Elizabeth Coley Hair Z. Bryan Haislip Deana Setzer Hale Troy Kenneth Hales Calvin L. Hall Dwight Craig Hall Elizabeth Hughes Hall Joan Charles Hall Stephen Neil Hall Speed and Susan Walters Hallman Charles Daryl Hamilton Sharon Kester Hamilton Ashley Campbell Hamlett Cole Chapman Hammack Lawrence Townley Hammond Jr. and Alice Rowlette Hammond Elizabeth Carroll Hamner William R. and Barbara Handy Katherine Hart Hanes Roger Durant and Janell McCaskill Hannah Caroline Hanner Sarah Barbee Hanner Scott Allen Hanson Lynn Harand Margaret Taylor Harper Graham Dalton Harrelson Angela Dorman Harris Boyd Gregory Harris John Lory Harris III and Catherine Randolph Harris Robert Chatham Harris Edward Harrison and Shea Riggsbee Denning Ashley Hartmann Candace Goines Hartsell John Joseph Hashimoto Bryant Allen Haskins Marshall William Hass
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Hitting the TV airwaves: The television studio and broadcast production facilities in Carroll Hall allowed for the first broadcast of “Carolina Week” on Feb. 2. Professors Richard Simpson and Charlie Tuggle led the weekly student newscast.
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Bruce Finley and Lynn Garren Henderson James Donald Henderson Jr. and Cynthia Johnson Henderson Maurice H. Hendrick Virginia Susan Hendrix Shannon Nicole Hennessy James Wright Henry Perry Cleveland Henson Jr. Charles Allan Herndon III James Charles and Sarah McKenzie High Leslie Thompson and Rebecca Nix High Susan Snyder Hight Joan Hennigar Hill John Charles Hinson Jr. and Linda Morse Hinson Vikki Broughton Hodges C. Gregory Holcomb and Sherry Lee Martin Grant McLeod and Katherine Holland George Martin Holloway Christina Marie Mock Holmes W. Howard Holsenbeck Caroline Kelley Holt Virginia Fridy Holt Douglas J. and Amy Andrews Hoogervorst Frances Ledbetter Hook Matthew Edwin and Catherine Davis Hornaday Nancy Carolyn Horner Susan Snipes Horvat Alison Page Howard Herbert Hoover Howard Jane Howard Kate Tamba Howard Regina Howard‐Glaspie James Fuller Howerton Pauline Ann Howes Edgar Allison Howie Julius Cicero Hubbard Jr. Marla Zablocki Hudnell Louise Kilgo Hudson Steven Alfred Huettel Jeffrey Lawrence Huey Dane R. Huffman Margaret Ann Hughes Sarah Jean Hughes G. Michael Hugo James Brandt Hummel Scott Beale Hunter Nancy Rea Huntley James Franklin Hurley III and Geraldine Trammell Hurley Hurley Trammell Foundation Marian Louise Huttenstine Anne Hickman Imes Cynthia Walsh Ingram Sarah Christine Irvin Stacey Kaplan Isaacs Andrew James Ives Melissa Anne Jackson Rick Jackson Walter Allen Jackson Barry Gilston Jacobs
Shawn Rubach and Karen Wiggins Jacobsen Diane Gilbert Jacoby William Brian Jaker Lenue Tyson James Melissa Lentz James Lawrence Wooten Jarman Jr. Carol Spalding Jenkins John Russell Jenkins Jr. and Ann McMahon Jenkins Yongick Jeong Alfred Leonard Johnson Carole Ferguson Johnson Cassandra Lyons Johnson Harmony Marie Johnson Anne Marie Johnston Diane Hile Johnston Emily Hightower Johnston Thomas Kennerly Johnstone IV and Carrie Estes Johnstone Bruce Overstreet Jolly Jr. Emmy Campbell Jonassen Raymond Clifton Jones Robert Jones Robert Tyree Jones William Herman Jones Joseph Christopher Jordan Edward Grey Joyner Jr. Telisha LeShawn Joyner Adam Charles Kandell Stephanie Alicia Kane Chancy McLean Kapp Susie Cordon Karl Laura A. Katz Ashton N. Katzer Michael Ray Kaylor Gary Victor Kayye Michael David Kearney Ryan William Keefer Anne Raugh Keene William Lewis Keesler Larry Ficquette Keith Jr. and Carolyn Pember Keith
Robert Edward King Samuel Speight King Wayne Edgar King William Oliver King David Burgess Kirk Janice Carol Kizziah Mark Corey Klapper Rochelle Helene Klaskin Kimberly Dawn Kleman Malia Stinson Kline Felisa Neuringer Klubes Karen Trogdon Kluever Susan Brubaker Knapp Richard K. and Sherry Hayes Kneipper Kathryn Corbett Knight Robert Clifton Knowles Mitchell Lynn Kokai Michele Holland Kolakowski Rachael Landau Kornblum Stephen Kornegay Rhonda Whicker Kosusko Lisa Rowland Kozloff Kaley Catherine Krause Gene William Krcelic John Dunham Kretschmer Paul Stuart Kronsburg Thomas Kublin Marsha Kurowski Paul Harvey Kutz Norma A. Kwee Angelique Cowan Kymmell Ashley Bolton Lamb Sarah Elizabeth Lamm J. Marshall and Karen Dunn Lancaster Thomas Alexander Lander IV and Gade Edwards Lander Eddy Charles and Jane Desper Landreth Kara Michele Lashley Jarvis Harding Latham Sherry Johnson Lauber
J. Matthew and Mary Ann Rickert Lennon Lucille Stanton Leon William Kent Leonhardt Charla Haber Lerman Margot Carmichael Lester Suzanne Nichols Levi Allison Taylor Levine David M. Lewis Slade Lewis Rebecca Lewis‐Congdon Diane Dewey Leyburn Stanley J. Lieber Jeffrey Thomas and Kathleen Keener Linder Richard Lindholm Elizabeth Baker Lindsey Adam Michael Linker and Kristen Suzanne Bonatz Eric Glenn Little Harry Walker Lloyd Alice Lockhart Jo Ann Gallo Loer Valerie Anne Lovko Jacson Gray and Jill Hiatt Lowe Suzanne Story Lowe Jeffrey Charles and Janice Duffy Lowrance Diane Hadley Lucas Guy Stephen and Jane Meekins Lucas Fritz Bartley Luther Jamee Osborn Lynch Cy Kellie Lynn Ed Lyons Justin Neil Lyons Julie Anne Lytle Salem Elizabeth Macknee Jane Madden Joseph Edward and Cheryl Patton Malloy Marc Christopher L. Mankins
“ I am a full-time student and pay for my own living expenses at UNC as well as all of my own utilities, groceries, etc., because my single mother has had trouble affording my education on her own. I have always been preoccupied with how she would be able to afford my tuition, and the scholarship will be such an amazing contribution.” Patricia Patterson Kelly Elizabeth Anne Kennedy Janet Rose Kenney Urania Bakos Keretses Charles Edwin Killian Julie Smith Kimbro Anne Hanahan Ford Kimzey Alison Michelle King Debra Kaye King J. Keith King and Louise Crosby Spieler J. Lee and Julie King Marianna Patricia King Michelle Heeden King
James Everett Laughrun Andrew Harmon Lavender Diane Marie Lavigne Virginia Temple Lawler Edward Franklin and Emily Brewer Lawrence Sharon Elizabeth Lawrence Matthew Taylor and Laura Byrd Leach Ann Paylor Leatherwood Daniel P. Lee Donna Claire Leinwand Frances Cauthen Lemcke
Raleigh Colston Mann Angela Branoff Mansberger Peter S. and Laura Gaebelein Mantius John Chrysostom Manuel and Rebecca L Kirkland Ronda Jae Manuel Karen Mary Markin Cole Davin Marley Stacey M. Marrs John Wright Martin III Karen Trail Martin Keely Noffsinger Massie
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test theories is central to the project. “Every journalism school in the country is talking about creating multimedia projects and converging technologies,” Folkerts said. “But none, to my knowledge, have created an environment that challenges current models and tests the results.” “We’ll develop ideas, take risks and test how audiences respond,” she said. “We won’t be afraid to make some mistakes along the way. That’s how we learn what works and what doesn’t and how we can help preserve quality journalism in the new media environment. This project will focus on news and its importance within a democratic society.” The newsroom and an adjacent computer facility will create a hub equipped for students in every specialization taught in the school – reporting, editing and design, broadcasting, photojournalism, multimedia, advertising and public relations. Carolina is part of an initiative funded by the Carnegie Corp. and the Knight Foundation that seeks to help journalism education adapt to the challenges of a struggling news industry. It encourages experimental journalism projects, curriculum enhancement and collaboration with other academic disciplines. In 1996, Felts endowed an annual $3,000 scholarship for electronic communication students in the school. In 1997, he named three editing suites in Carroll Hall. “Reese’s kindness and generosity were well-known by many,” Folkerts said. “His gift enables us to do something unique and meaningful for our students.”
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The UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication is launching a major experimental student news project and audience research initiative funded by a $3.5 million gift from the estate of alumnus Reese Felts. It is the largest single gift ever by an individual to Carolina’s journalism school, and it will also fund a distinguished professorship in the school. Jean Folkerts, dean of the school, announced the gift and project Oct. 1. Felts, a 1952 UNC graduate who worked for nearly 30 years as a radio and television broadcaster in WinstonSalem before retiring in 1980, died in 2009. He spent most of his career with WSJS, which is now WXII. “The journalism school instilled Reese with an almost-religious awe of the role of journalism in our society and the profound importance of a free and responsible press,” said Cowles Liipfert, Felts’ attorney and friend. “Carolina’s journalism school has always been innovative,” Chancellor Holden Thorp said. “It is fitting that a gift from an older generation of journalists will help our students shape the future of news dissemination.” The school will transform one of its classrooms into a 24-hour newsroom where students will work with faculty to produce and distribute news for a variety of audiences. The newsroom and its publications also will function as a research center to study audiences and communities that form around the news. The flexibility to experiment and
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A. Michael Mathers and Sandra Florence Brooks‐ Mathers Ellen Wallace Matthews Etta Lee Matthews Lydia Blanton Matthews Martha Nixon Matthews Mary Lineberger Matthews Thomas Blake Mattingly Elizabeth Houk Mauser Claire Martin May Lisa Curtis May Michael Wayne and Marcia S. Mayo Vernon Lee Mays Jr. M. Timothy and Katherine Carlton McAdams William Howard McAllister III Patricia Kingery McCarty Paul Gilbert McCauley Jr. Shaniqua L. McClendon Sarah Jane McConnaghy David Walker McCullough Jr. Angus Morris McDonald III and Elizabeth Williams McDonald Sheryl Windham McDonald Michael Benjamin McFarland Kellee Schreiner McGahey Joseph Wilson McGee Margaret Padgette McGeorge Brittny Vernee McGraw Elizabeth Cotter McGroarty LaVerne McInnis Jr. Marilyn Spencer McKee Sam Stewart McKeel Margaret Ryan McKenzie J. Peter McKnight Teresa A. McLamb John Andrew and Erin Randall McLeod Elizabeth Salter McMillan Heather Lynn McNatt Tracey W. McSwain Beth Erin Mechum Roger Preston Meekins Vito John Melfi Brittany Nicole Melvin Gregory Brian and Laura Anderson Mercer Margaret Myers Merrill Tanya Kishawn Merritte Ellen Mesmer Clifton Blake Metcalf Jr. Abigail Natasha Metty Leonard Arthur Meyer James Aubrey and Mary Thompson Midgett Draggan Paul Mihailovich Betty Jean Schoeppe Miller William Prather and Stephanie Graham Miller Suzanne G. Millholland L. Barron Mills Jr. Donald Ray Millsaps Christopher Ryan Milner John Thomas Mims Kristen Yoohee Min Jimmie Russell and Amy Gorman Mincey
2005
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Cole steps down: Richard Cole stepped down as dean. In many ways the school was unrecognizable from what it was when he became dean. Tom Bowers, who had been at the school since 1971, succeeded him as interim dean.
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Peter William Mitchell Terry and Karen C. Mitchell Philip James and Tracy Southern Mohr W. James Monroe Jr. Robert Carson Montgomery Amelia Nicole Moody Kathy Arrington Moody Curtiss Alexander Moore Franklin Shaw and Lisa Moore Gaye Gardner Moore J. Jay Moore III Jeffery Frank Moore John Ellison Moore III Patricia Miller Moore George W. and Nancy Wood Mordecai Beverly Faye Morgan Danita Jan Morgan Lee Ann Morris R. Edward Morrissett Jr. J. Bruce and Sidney Newton Morton William Irvin Morton Julie Moushon James McKinney Moye III Tracy Airington Mozingo James Steven Muldrow Courtney Campbell Muller Kelly Laura Murphy Stella Lassiter Murphy Ruth Henning Nagareda Stuart High Nance Brooke Archer Neal Deborah R. Neffa Tracy Lynn Newbold Laura E. Newman Cindy L. Newnam Monique Lenee Newton Christine Thuytien Nguyen L. Dalton and Susan Quinn Nobles Stephanie Quinn Nobles Joseph A. Norman Jr. and Kelly Elizabeth Peacock
Ellen Wiener Oppenheim Stephanie Cunningham Ortiz Nicholas Joseph Ortolano III Jeffrey Scott Orvin Jonathan Greer Ostendorff and Rebecca Margaret Johnson Aaron Matthew Overington Heidi Elizabeth Owen Howard Wayne and Karen Van Neste Owen Mollie Womble Owen S. Lee Pace Jean Reynolds Page Leslie Joe Page Jr. Gregory C. Paige David Chandler Palmer Diana Williams Palmer Joan Deutsch Paradise Martha Whitney Parent Roy Hampton Park Jr. and Tetlow P. Park Vernon Caldwell Park James Howard and Hallie McLean Parker Karen Lynn Parker Michael Paul Parker Roy Parker Jr. and Marie Smithwick Parker Alison Canoles Parks Vernon Ray and Bonnie Sparks Parrish Nancy G. Pate Curtis Patton Jr. Gordon Reames Payne Ashley Everhart Pearson Sue Ann Smith Pentecost James Finley and Dolores Oteri Perkins David Tucker and Karen McEntrye Perry Nikki Peters Marjorie Hunter Petersen J. Scott Peterson Lenore Jones Pfutzner Gary Phaup
Dean Ashley and Rachel Jones Pittman Michael John Pittman Robert Turner Pittman Ann Beaver Pokora Sharon Honey Polansky Elizabeth Koontz Ponstingel Krista Helen Pool Jonathan Hume Pope Elizabeth Ida Portanova Deborah Ann Potter Marcia Moore Potter William Barry Potts Marilyn Meeks Powell Mark Steven Powell Rose Marie Pratt Angella Preston Ted Yates Prevatte Valeria DuSold Prevish Amy Edwards Price Scott Lawrence Price Steven New Price Cletis Graden Pride Aimee Waters Pugsley Michael Edgar Pulitzer Jr. Alexis Jennifer Rabin Megan Conway Rahman Errol Mark Rainey Jr. and Linda Sherck Rainey M. Scott Rankin Marjo Edwina Rankin Melanie Morgan Raskin Marianna Miller Raugh Erica Meyer Rauzin Judith Thomas Ray L. Holden and Mary Johnson Reaves Roy Frederick Reed and Dinita L. James Amy Mansky Regan Gennifer Johnson Renfrow Kevin John Reperowitz Barry John Reszel James Alexander Rhodes Ronald Albert Ricci Karen Lynn Richardson
â&#x20AC;&#x153; With all of these plans in mind for my future, your generous donation will help every step of the way. I can only hope that one day I will also have the opportunity to help journalism students achieve their desired goals. It is with help from giving people such as yourself that many opportunities are made possible, and I would like to sincerely thank you for helping me turn some of my dreams into a reality.â&#x20AC;? Jo Ellen Meekins Nowell Gregory Walter and Haddya Haddad Nye Chantal Oberoi Dave A. and Lee Minzenmayer Obringer Barry Keith Odell Pekin and Christine Berlin Ogan Thad Brian Ogburn
Nina Phaup Johnny Lee Phelps Laura Lee Phelps Kathleen Douglass Phillips Pamela Ann Phillips Stewart Phinizy III Jennifer Darleen Pierce Bradford Hancock and Donna Piner Joy Brown Pinson
Aimee Dhus Ridgway Dorothy Sattes Ridings Joshua Brent Rinehart Lewis Samuel Ripps Eugene Kinsey and Mary Killian Ritch H. Zane Robbins James Crawford Roberts Jr. Rosemary Roberts Teresa Bagwell Roberts
William Claude Roberts W. Glenn Robertson Edwin Moring Robins Rand Robins Jr. Barbara Helms Robinson Betsi Simmons Robinson C. Bennett Robinson III and Michelle Donahue Robinson John L. and Susan Spence Robinson Kristin Houser Robinson Russell Austin Robinson Valerie Tunstall Robinson Cathy Steele Roche Suzette Roberts Rodriguez Austin Nichols Rogers Donna Whitaker Rogers Jim R. Rogers Alanna Sigmon Rollins Charlotte Lyn Rollins Frederick Roselli III P. Paul Rothman Sara Lynn Roueche David Brian Layton Royle Dawn Burke Royle David Martin and Andrea S Rubin Leon Joseph Rubis Terry Alan Rudolph Paul Frederick Rule Kirstin Julie Russ Raymond Earl Ruth Lou W. Rutigliano Evelyn Davida Sahr Lynn Timberlake Sakmann Carly Doris Salvadore Joseph Dominick Sanchez L. Joseph Sanders Michael Patrick and Ginger Wright Sanders J. Kenneth Sanford Laura Seifert Santos Kenneth and Lynn Sass Louis Leonidas Sasser III Caroline Elizabeth Saunders Larry Melvin Saunders Henry Lyttleton Savage Jr. and Helen Young Savage Thomas William Sawyer Lauren Yoder Sawyers Ellen D. Scarborough Thomas Varnon Scarritt Frances Winborne Schaaf Justin Toby and Christine Teresa Scheef Edward Louis Schlesinger Sarah Brown Schmale David Bradley and Sherri Murray Schmidt John Alexander and Kathryn Seale Schmidt Thomas Edward Schnabel Emily Joanne Schnure Andrew James Schorr Walter Joseph Schruntek Henry G. Schuler Jr. and Wendy Becker Schuler Jack Lamar and Nancy Fox Scism Leslie Ann Scism
John Cecil Scroggs Jr. and Judy Dunn Scroggs Caroline Britt Seals Donald Macdonald Seaver Nicole Bensch Seitz Jonathan Crocker Sekerak Cameron Neal and Lisa Doliner Sellers
Gayle Marie Smith‐Neely William Davis and Florence Lide Snider Andrea Sobbe Robyn Langlois Soffera Michelle Lowe Soler Dianne Baldwin Southern Elizabeth Erwin Spainhour
“ Receiving this scholarship has only helped to boost my belief that I will find support along the way, and that the dream I have always had was worth pursuing. From the bottom of my heart, I truly thank you for this generous donation.”
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Folkerts takes the lead: Jean Folkerts, former director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, became the school’s seventh dean.
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“ My father formerly worked as an environmental engineer and consultant but since having both of his legs amputated due to complication of diabetes, he is disabled…This scholarship couldn’t have come at a better time for my family. Thanks to your donation I will be able to finance a portion of my senior year in Chapel Hill feeling as though I’ve pulled a bit of my own weight.” J. Reed Tucker Carla Chapman Turchetti Kevin Brendan Turner Leigh Forbes Turner Gregory Christopher Turosak Patricia Ann Tutone
Stanley Thomas Wearden Carver Camp Weaver David H. Weaver John Wood Weaver Teri Weaver Jeffrey Michael and Linda Howell Weiner
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Nichole Strom Tygart Bob and Terri Tyson Carolyn Jeanette Tyson Jackie Tyson Garry King and Susan Morrison Umstead P. Eugene Upchurch III Robert McLean Upton Brandon N. Uttley Ann Berman Vaden Cory Adam VanBelois M.S. and Faye Massengill Van Hecke Laura C. Van Sant Catherine Cousins Veal David Alexander Venable Carl Vernon Venters Jr. Erin Michelle Vernon Matthew Allen Viser Karen Michelle Vogel Ashley Hinton Von Cannon Jane Rouse Waddell Ryan Thomas Wade Kenneth Robert and Laurie Baker Walden Alyson Lynn Walker Melissa Stofko Walker Frances Mial Wall Katheryn Frances Wall Kathryn Brubaker Wall Sandy Winfield Wall Jim Wallace Robert Allen Walton Steven Vance and Victoria Chivers Walton J. Gary Ward Patrick and Maria Ward Michael Andrew Wargo and Jennifer Tumulty-Wargo James Edward Carlton Warren Jonathan Campbell Warren Marion Washington Bennett Wellons Waters W. Bennie Waters Jr. and Martha Harrison Waters Judith Rebecca Watkins Susan Cary Watkins Nadia Renee Watts
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Barbara Potts Semonche Joey Senat Jr. Julian Dante Sereno David Everette Setzer Kathy Tilley Shaffer Claire Russell Shaffner Scott and Leslie McDonough Sharpe Donald Lewis Shaw Anne Elizabeth Sherow Connie Leigh Sherrill Daniel Luther and Mary Ellen Reece Sherrill Joseph Wayne Shugart James Alan and Ellen Neerincx Sigmon Frances Bell Simms Bruce Merle Simpson George Herbert Simpson III Rita Adams Simpson V. Michael Simpson Wendy Grady Simpson Marion DuBose Sims III Wilson Sims Brandon Joseph and Kelley Cherry Sink Charles Andrew Sinnett Patricia Porubsky Sisson Ann Gretchen Sjoerdsma Mark Charles and Elizabeth Blair Skains Stacy Scarazzo Skelly Frank Willard Slusser Jr. David William Small Katherine Ford Smart Catherine Underwood Smith David Hamilton Smith Jr. and Tammy Lisa Howard Emily Toler Smith J. Walker Smith Jr. and Joy Duncan Smith Jennifer Leigh Smith Katherine Phillips Smith Loyd Baxter Smith Jr. and Robin Harry Smith Robert Beasley and Katherine Snow Smith Susan Lynn Smith T. Harrison Smith Jr. and Elizabeth McMillan Smith
Martin Strayer Sutton Sr. and Joy White Sutton Gilmer Paiton Swaim Jr. Dee Swalley Zanna Worsham Swann Eric Gregory Swaringen Sandee Ann Swearingen John Matthew and Elizabeth Paradise Sweeney Leah Ann Szarek Patrick Taintor John Idell Tallman Linda Love Talmadge Timothy Ohrom Tarkington Larry Wilson Tarleton Douglas James Tate David Edwin Taylor Barbara Ross Teichman Martha Pearsall Terry Cynthia Witthuhn Tew Albert Shaker Thomas Jr. Larry Parks Thomas Patricia Thomas Elizabeth Rogers Thompson J. William Thompson Jr. and Kristen Brown Thompson John Eley Thompson Jr. and Candace Stephenson Thompson Joy Anastasia Thompson Lucy Grey Thompson Alfred Marshall Thomy James Swain Thore Jr. L. Steve Thornburg Larry E. and Marjory Thornburg Tracy Kincaid Thornton Lindsay Sloan Thorp Harry Vincent Tocce Jr. Dawn Michele Tomaszewski Donna Ellen Tompkins Sherry Landgren Tompkins Leroy Towns and Jean Folkerts Stella Anderson Trapp David Ferd Troisi Antonio Aloysius Tucker II Glenn Gibson and Nancy Prince Tucker
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Reaccreditation: The school received full re-accreditation from the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (ACEJMC). After a visit to the school, a team representing the council said the school “has earned a reputation as one of the premier programs in journalism and mass communication.”
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M. Jerome Weiss David Felda and Katherine Russell Welch Franklin Ennis Wells Jr. V. Stuart Wells Laura Baier Wente Meredith Ellen Werner Robert Mark and Julia Milner West David Owen and Brooks Morgan Westerhoff Reniece Henry Westmoreland Melinda Sawyer Whitaker Ashlie Brook White Sara Rodgers White Susan Rebecca White Abney Harper Whitehead Phillip Wayne and Sherri Sanders Whitesell James Jay Whitmeyer Erin Wall Whittle Sara Elise Wilfley Frances Goins Wilhoit G. Cleveland Wilhoit Jr. Julia Bullard Wilkie Leslie J. Wilkinson Suzanne Wood Wilkison Nicole Noel Willets David Arnold Williams Nicole McSwain Williams O. Lorraine Williams Judith Anne Willinger James Estes Willingham Sr. Amy Westbrook Wilmoth Dirk Edmund Wilmoth
Kevin Conrad and Susan Runser Wolf Merrill Wolf Andrea Lynn Wolfson James Horton Womack Anne Michael Wood E. William Wood III Chandler Woodall Raye Palmer Woodin III and Jane Minor Woodin Meghan Elizabeth Woods W. Ruffin Woody Jr. Mary Ross Sherrin Woosley Sara E. Worrell‐Berg Joni Buck Worthington Jennifer Sinclair Wozniak Jennifer Dickens Wright Kim Mogul Wright Peter John Wylie Jr. Thomas Richard Yackley Jr. Laura Frances Yandell Ramon Lyon and Virginia Lilly Yarborough Stephen Yarbrough Robin Rebecca Yontz Jack Gerard Yopp Jan Johnson Yopp Jennifer Heinzen York S. Kyle York Donna York‐Gilbert Chung Yu Johanna Jane Yueh Anna Roselie Zarcone Charles W. and Maria del Pilar Zimmerlein Rachel Pilar Zitin
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“ Paying for college has been a huge struggle for me for the past three years, and though it’s been tough to scrape the money together some semesters, I return each year knowing all the stress and trouble and student loans will be totally worth it when I’m walking across that stage in my blue cap and gown with my degree from the University of North Carolina. Your contribution to my education in the form of your generous donation will be invaluable in my pursuit of excellence (and avoidance of crippling, lifelong debt).” Aimee Armande Wilson Gregory Michael Wilson Lyn Wilson Richard Wright Wilson Robert Sessoms Wilson Roy Reuben Wimmer Katherine Lynne Winders Mark and Lindsay Wineka Anna Lee Winker Joe and Janet Markstein Wintrob George Bryant and Barbara Morrison Wirth Dioni L. Wise Callie Taintor Wiser Eleni Bacas Woglom
Michael Steven and Renee Dillon Zlotnicki Brian Kent and Pamela Prince Zuercher Ryan Catherine Zurawel Ronald Lee ZuWallack A‐1 Broadcast LLC Bass, Berry, & Sims Beatrice Cobb Perpetual Charitable Trust Edco (Winston-Salem) EW Photography Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Foundation for the Carolinas Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
Chuck Stone Citizen of the World Award David J. DeMaster Tiffany Alexandra Fish Katharine R. Ford Dana Scott Rosengard Lawrence David Turner Walter Spearman Professorship Charles Gordon Crawley David Hart Rothman
John H. Stembler Jr. Professorship Estate of John H. Stembler Jr. Chuck Stone Program for Diversity in Education and Media Monica Hill Society of American Travel Writers Foundation John Sweeney Interview Fund Roy Hampton Park III and Laura Singer Park Hal Tanner Sr. Scholarship N.C. Press Services Tucker Family Scholarship Bryan and Rachael Tucker Van Hecke Award Michael S. Weinstein and Kathleen Mary Curry Visual Communication Edward Douglas Richardson Rebecca Ann Tench Ashley Lauren Zammitt Washington Summer Internship Program Melvin Sharoky Sharoky Family Foundation David Jordan Whichard II Scholarship Virginia Whichard Caudill Whichard Family Foundation David Julian Whichard Scholarship Whichard Family Foundation Earl Wynn Award Robert Palmer Brewer Jr. David Earl Hoxeng Charles Balchin Huntley Eleanor Barker Trommsdorff Randall Williams Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund