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2008 Yearbook & Dean’s Report School of Journalism and Mass Communication T H E U N I V E R S I T Y of N O R T H C A R O L I N A at C H A P E L H I L L

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The 2008 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.

5,000 copies of this document were printed at a cost of $11,052 or $2.21 per copy.

Dean Jean Folkerts Associate Dean, Development and Alumni Affairs Speed Hallman Editors Morgan Ellis, Kyle York Designer Karen Hibbert UNC Design Services Copyright 2008 UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication All rights reserved.

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Faculty New Faculty Tenured, Promoted and New Roles Faculty Honors Faculty Directory Visiting Scholars Retirements AEJMC 2008 Students Enrollment Snapshot Student Honors School Scholarships and Awards Student Organizations Commencement Lists

Staff 21 New Staff 21 Staff Honors 22 Staff Directory Alumni 23 Alumni News 23 Alumni Features 25 Ph.D. Alumni Association Advisory boards 26 Board of Advisers 27 Journalism Alumni and Friends Association ( JAFA) 27 JOMC Foundation What 28 28 29 30 30 31 32 32 33 33 34 35 35 36 37 37 38 38 39 39

ABC News on Campus Advertising Andaman Rising Beijing Olympics Blogs Business Journalism Career Services Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education Carolina Community Media Project Carolina del Norte Carolina News Studio Centennial of Journalism Education at Carolina Center for Media Law and Policy Communications Curriculum Distance Education Diversity Electronic Communication ESPNU Campus Connection Graduate Program

When 52 Timeline 57 Upcoming Events Where 58 Carroll Hall 59 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 59 International 60 Alumni Locations How 62 63 64 64 64 65 65 65 66 66

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Strategic Focus Fiscal Year 2008 Giving Fiscal Year Giving History Carolina First Campaign Impact Adams-Jacobson Endowment Furman Bisher Medal Diane Harvey Bradley Scholarship Clarence E. and Jane P. Whitefield Scholarship DTH Scholarship for the N.C. Scholastic Media Association Chuck Stone Program for Diversity in Education and Media Charles Gerrard Society Fiscal Year 2008 Donors

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What 40 HDTV Conversion 40 ibiblio 41 Information Technology and Computing Services 41 Inside the Future of News 41 Interdisciplinary Health Communication 42 iTunes U 42 J-link 43 M.A./J.D. Dual Degree Program 43 Medical and Science Journalism Program 44 Mentoring 45 N.C. Halls of Fame 46 News-editorial 46 Observatory on Corporate Reputation 46 Park Library 48 Professional Education 48 Program on Public Life 49 Public Relations 49 Raising the Ante Symposium 50 Research 50 Scholastic Media 51 Sports Communication 51 Visual Communication

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DEAR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS, In the past year, the journalism and communication industries have continued to face changes and challenges in the evolution to a digital media environment.

The school is in step with the changes and is playing a significant role shaping the dialogue about the future of journalism and mass communication while we prepare students to tell the stories of their generation.

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The school joined 11 other leading journalism schools in the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education. The Carnegie Corp. and Knight Foundation provided us with more than $700,000 to help implement curriculum changes and produce projects such as Carolina del Norte, which documents the implications of a growing Latino population in North Carolina.

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The school opened one of only five ABC News campus bureaus in the nation staffed by students. We were the first to work with ESPNU to employ students in game broadcasts. The school took first place overall in multimedia and broadcasting in the Hearst Journalism Awards – the Pulitzers of collegiate journalism. Thirty-one students traveled to Beijing to work as media volunteers at Olympics.

In March, we hosted “Raising the Ante,” a symposium honoring retired Knight Chair in Journalism Phil Meyer. The symposium convened industry and academic leaders from across the nation to look at how practitioners are utilizing interactive forms of communication and how researchers need to study the new media landscape.

ing faculty and will help the school transition to HDTV. Queenie Byars became an assistant professor of public relations and will lead the school’s diversity initiatives. Dana McMahan joined our advertising faculty.

The school will implement a new curriculum in fall 2009 to better prepare students for an industry that requires a wider array of newsgathering, storytelling and communication skills. News-editorial students will cross over into areas of electronic and multimedia communication. Advertising and public relations students also will train in the new skills they need to reach their audiences effectively.

Our multimedia students continue to push the borders of journalism. One shining example is the Andaman Rising project (andamanrising.org) – the work of 14 students who traveled to Thailand this year to document recovery from the devastating 2004 Asian tsunami. In The Digital Journalist, Ron Steinman wrote of Andaman Rising, “In a changing world of journalism, one where gloom often intrudes, I have found a project that gives me hope for the future.”

Hundreds of professionals visited the school this year in classes, colloquia, seminars and as guest lecturers to help keep us connected to the front lines of the industry. We are using videoconferencing technology to maintain ongoing conversations inside leading U.S. newsrooms.

The school’s students, faculty and staff – and the alumni and friends that so generously support them – give me great hope for the future.

We welcomed five new faculty this year. Penny Abernathy is the new Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics. Dan Riffe, editor of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, is the first Richard Cole Eminent Professor. Jim Hefner, former general manager at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, joined the broadcast-

Thank you,

We rely on your support now more than ever to deliver the best in journalism and mass communication teaching, research and public service.

Jean Folkerts, Dean

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New Faculty PENNY MUSE ABERNATHY joined the school in July 2008 as Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics. Abernathy – who brings a wealth of experience to the post, working as a reporter, editor and media executive for more than 30 years – hopes to reconcile the divide between quality journalism and a productive economic model.

Before moving to the business side of the industry, Abernathy served as a newspaper reporter or editor at several daily newspapers, including The Charlotte Observer, The Greensboro News & Record, The Dallas Times-Herald, The Wichita Eagle-Beacon, The Fayetteville Times and The Laurinburg Exchange.

A Laurinburg, N.C., native and former executive at The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, Abernathy most recently served as vice president and executive director of industry programs at the Paley Center for Media in New York City. She specializes in helping business succeed economically while preserving quality journalism in the digital media environment. Her appointment strengthens the school’s outreach to working journalists and their readers in N.C. communities and beyond.

Abernathy received her bachelor’s degree in history from UNC-Greensboro and earned her master’s in business administration from Columbia University. Abernathy was inducted to the N.C. Journalism Hall of Fame in 1998.

“Penny has done both journalism and business at a high level and in a great variety of situations. She is creative, entrepreneurial, focused and results-oriented,” said Paul Steiger, former managing editor at the Journal and a Knight Foundation trustee. “I have high confidence that Penny will be able to convert her effectiveness in the worlds of business and journalism to success in the academy, and in short order.”

Penny Muse Abernathy

Before coming to Carolina, Riffe was a professor and Presidential Research Scholar in the Social and Behavioral Sciences at Ohio University. He also served as interim director at the Scripps School and later as its associate director for graduate studies and research, and as director of the Bush Research Center. He had been part of Ohio’s faculty since 1995.

Prior to Ohio University, Riffe was Dan Riffe professor and chair of the department of journalism at Northern Illinois University, associate professor at the University of Alabama and associate professor at Southern Illinois, where he served as director of the Mass Communication Research Center.

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As an executive, Abernathy launched new enterprises and helped increase revenue at some of the nation’s most prominent news organizations and publishing companies, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and the Harvard Business Review. At The Wall Street Journal, she oversaw the international division and reversed its declining revenue to profitability in less than a year.

DAN RIFFE, editor of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, joined the school in July 2008 as the first Richard Cole Eminent Professor.

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“As the digital revolution has unfolded, Carolina has kept up a vigorous dialogue with journalists working at all levels in the new media environment,” said Jean Folkerts, dean of the school. “Penny Abernathy’s work is to build models for making digital news economically viable, whether the product is attached to newspapers, broadcast operations or standalone ventures. She is not identifying problems, she is creating solutions.”

At Carolina, Abernathy will focus her expertise on 21st-century economic models that will improve the ability of journalists to produce news in the public interest. She is teaching and creating innovative new courses and practical research. She will share her work widely online and person-to-person to help journalists and media industry managers take on the industry’s economic challenges.

WHO Faculty His teaching and research areas include mass communication theory and research methodology, mass communication and environmental risk, international news, government-press relations, citizen journalism, and the treatment of women and minorities in the media.

Riffe earned his doctorate from the University of Tennessee. He holds a master’s in journalism from Ohio University and a bachelor’s in English from the University of Dayton.

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QUEENIE BYARS joined the faculty in January 2008 and will lead many of the school’s diversity initiatives while also teaching courses in public relations. She has been a lecturer in the school since 2007, also teaching news writing courses.

Her interests include international community relations and diversity in higher education.

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Jim Hefner

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Prior to Carolina, Byars cofounded Creative Communication Works Inc., a public relations consulting firm in Northern Virginia. She also served as a public relations consultant managing the National Aerospace Awards program for the Air Force Association in Arlington, Va.

Byars has served as a lieutenant colonel and public affairs officer for the U.S. Air Force. During her assignment at the American Forces Information Service in Alexandria, Va., she provided oversight of advanced education and training programs for Department of Dana McMahan Defense personnel in the public affairs career field. While assigned to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., she planned and coordinated public affairs guidance that included international security policy, intelligence and space policy.

Byars also prepared senior officials for press conferences and media interviews with the Pentagon Press Corps and international jour-

nalists. She has held public affairs assignments in San Antonio, Texas; Miami, Fla.; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; and Tokyo.

Byars has been recognized for public affairs achievement and government service with honors that include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, and the Air Force’s Meritorious Service, Commendation and Achievement Medals.

JIM HEFNER, former vice president and general manager at CBS affiliate WRAL-TV in Raleigh, joined the school’s faculty in 2008 as a professor of the practice of journalism.

A native North Carolinian and a 1972 graduate of the school, Hefner has more than 25 years of experience in news direction and management at television stations in North Carolina and Pittsburgh. Before coming to the school, he was vice president and general manager of WRAL and served on the board of directors for Capitol Broadcasting Co. since 2002.

“Over the years I have worked with a number of reporters and news directors,” said John Greene, vice president of special projects for Capitol Broadcasting. “Jim is easily the most knowledgeable and most committed newsman in that group. He is a true professional who would share that knowledge, experience and inspiration in developing future newsmen and women.”

Prior to his work with Capitol Broadcasting, Hefner spent more than 15 years as president and general manager at ABC affiliate WTAETV in Pittsburgh. He also wrote for newspapers in eastern North Carolina and The News & Observer before moving to television news.

He is the former president of the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters and has held various posts on service and professional boards.

Hefner earned a master’s degree from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He is also a graduate of the Hearst Management Institute, which is conducted at Northwestern University.

DANA MCMAHAN, a local business owner and former advertising agency professional, became an assistant professor in the school in July 2008.

McMahan is involved in many community organizations, serving on the boards of the SECU House at UNC Hospitals, Kidzu Children’s Museum and UNC Center for Women’s Health Research.

She is a graduate in design and art direction from James Madison University in Virginia.

Tenured, Promoted and New Roles Michael Hoefges and Sri Kalyanaraman were promoted to associate professors with tenure.

Dulcie Straughan and Charlie Tuggle were promoted to full professors.

Associate professor Chris Roush became the Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Scholar in Business Journalism.

Lois Boynton and Alberto Cairo are holding the James H. Shumaker Term Professorships.

Faculty Honors The school’s faculty members are some of the nation’s leading teachers and scholars in their fields. Each year, our faculty receive numerous awards and honors recognizing excellence. The list below includes a sampling of the honors J-school faculty have received in the past year.

Andy Bechtel, assistant professor Won the Edward Vick Prize for Innovation in Teaching.

Honored by the Carolina Women’s Leadership Council with the Faculty Mentoring Award for faculty-to-faculty mentoring.

Michael Hoefges

Craig Carroll, assistant professor Received the 2007 Award of Excellence in the education category from the Society for New Communications Research, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based think tank that focuses on emerging communications technology.

Named chair of the Public Relations Division of the International Communication Association.

Sri Kalyanaraman

Won a grant from the Office of Undergraduate Research to fund two graduate research consultants to work with students on research proposals, research methods and ways of communicating their findings to others. The graduate consultants are Bart Wojdynski and Sun Young Lee. David Cupp, assistant professor Received the Outstanding Faculty Andy Bechtel Award from the UNC Chapter of Delta Upsilon fraternity for best exemplifying the fraternity’s founding principles: promotion of justice, development of character, establishment of friendship and diffusion of liberal culture.

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She owns a Franklin Street retail store, The Laughing Turtle, and an interior design firm in Chapel Hill.

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Elizabeth Dougall, assistant professor Elected as one of three professors in the nation to the research committee of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Received a research award from Institute for PR as part of its Essential Knowledge Project.

Jean Folkerts, dean and Alumni Distinguished Professor Received the 2008 Elizabeth J. Somers Leadership Award from The George Washington University Mount Vernon Campus and the Mount Vernon Alumnae Association.

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Prior to joining the school, McMahan worked as an art director for 12 years at advertising agencies such as McCann-Erickson and Charron, Schwartz & Partners. Her clients included L’Oreal, Tiffany’s, GE Capital and ABC News, among others. She previously taught advertising creative as a lecturer in the school.

Elected by vote of the administrative heads of the more than 190 journalism schools and departments to serve on the executive committee of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Frank Fee, associate professor Selected to participate in the American Antiquarian Society’s 2008 Summer Seminar.

Valerie K. Fields, lecturer Appointed vice chairwoman of small business for the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce’s executive committee. Also elected to the board of directors of the Women’s Forum of North Carolina.

Barbara Friedman, assistant professor Elected chair of the Education Committee for the American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA).

Honored with academic advising award from the University’s general college.

Michael Hoefges, associate professor

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Appointed to the appellate board of the Electronic Retailing Self-Regulatory Program (ERSP), which is administered by the National Advertising Review Council.

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Selected to by the Chancellor to serve a threeyear term on the University Copyright Committee from July 2008 through July 2011.

Anne Johnston, professor and director, graduate program Selected to serve on the administrative board of the Graduate School.

Paul Jones, clinical associate professor Selected to judge the second annual $2 million Digital Media and Learning Competition, cosponsored by the MacArthur Foundation and the Humanities, Arts, Science, Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC), a network of educators and digital innovators.

Selected to an advisory board for INTRAHealth for a project sponsored by African musicians, including Youssou N’Dour, that will involve healthcare and open source software in Africa.

Janas Sinclair

Jock Lauterer, director, Carolina Community Media Project Named to lead community journalism efforts for the National Newspaper Association.

Trevy McDonald, lecturer Won a 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award from University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh.

Laura Ruel, assistant professor Received the President’s Award of the Society for News Design for her work with the SND multimedia competition.

Janas Sinclair, assistant professor Appointed research chair for 2008 for the American Academy of Advertising, coordinating the AAA’s research fellowship competition, dissertation fellowship competition and outstanding contribution to research award.

Won top paper award at the American Academy of Advertising Conference for “The Effect of Narratives on Perceptions of Parasocial and Candidate Trust in Political Ads,” co-authored with doctoral student Scott Dunn.

Won the David Brinkley Teaching Excellence Award.

John Sweeney, Distinguished Professor in Sports Communication Selected to the Chancellor’s Licensing Labor Code Advisory Committee.

Ryan Thornburg, assistant professor Won one of five Ueltschi Service-Learning Course Development Grants from the APPLES Service-Learning Program at UNC. Lucila Vargas, professor Invited to join the editorial board of The Communication Review.

Richard Cole John Thomas Kerr Jr. Distinguished Professor 919.843.8289 richard_cole@unc.edu

Debashis Aikat Associate professor and media futurist 919.962.4090 da@unc.edu

Paul Cuadros Assistant professor 919.962.4091 cuadros@email.unc.edu

Andy Bechtel Assistant professor 919.843.8295 abechtel@email.unc.edu Lois Boynton Associate professor and James H. Shumaker Term 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 Alberto Cairo Assistant professor and James H. Shumaker Term Professor 919.843.5841 cairo@email.unc.edu Francesca Dillman Carpentier Assistant professor 919.843.1035 cesca@unc.edu Craig Carroll Assistant professor 919.962.0735 craig.carroll@unc.edu Bill Cloud Associate professor 919.962.4070 bcloud@email.unc.edu

David Cupp Assistant professor 919.843.7813 dcupp@email.unc.edu Pat Davison Associate professor 919.962.4073 pdavison@email.unc.edu Elizabeth Dougall Assistant professor 919.962.6396 dougall@unc.edu Frank Fee Associate professor 919.962.4071 ffee@email.unc.edu Jean Folkerts Dean and Alumni Distinguished Professor 919.962.1204 jean_folkerts@unc.edu Barbara Friedman Assistant professor 919.843.2099 bfriedman@unc.edu Rhonda Gibson Associate professor and director, Ph.D. program 919.843.8296 gibsonr@email.unc.edu Ferrel Guillory Lecturer and director, Program on Public Life 919.962.5936 guillory@unc.edu

Heidi Hennink-Kaminski Assistant professor 919.962.2555 h2kamins@unc.edu Joe Bob Hester Associate professor and associate dean for undergraduate studies 919.843.8290 joe.bob.hester@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

Paul O’Connor Lecturer ocolumn@mindspring.com Cathy Packer Associate professor 919.962.4077 clpacker@email.unc.edu Dan Riffe Richard Cole Eminent Professor 919.962.4082 driffe@email.unc.edu 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

Paul Jones Clinical associate professor 919.360.7740 pjones@metalab.unc.edu

Donald Shaw Kenan Professor 919.962.4087 cardinal@email.unc.edu

Sri Kalyanaraman Associate professor 919.843.5858 sri@unc.edu

Richard Simpson Professor 919.962.5177 rhs7957@email.unc.edu

Val Lauder Lecturer 919.843.8297 vlauder@email.unc.edu

Janas Sinclair Assistant professor 919.843.5638 sinclair@unc.edu

Jock Lauterer Lecturer and director, Carolina Community Media Project 919.962.6421 jock@email.unc.edu

Dulcie Straughan Professor and senior associate dean 919.962.9003 dulcie@email.unc.edu

Thomas Linden Glaxo Wellcome Distinguished Professor of Medical Journalism 919.962.4078 linden@unc.edu

John Sweeney Distinguished Professor in Sports Communication 919.962.4074 jsweeney@email.unc.edu

Dana McMahan Assistant professor 919.843.5851 dmcmahan@email.unc.edu

Ryan Thornburg Assistant professor 919.962.4080 ryan.thornburg@unc.edu

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Penny Muse Abernathy Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics 919.843.4910 pennyma@email.unc.edu

Jim Hefner Professor of the practice of journalism 919.962.6733 jrhefner@email.unc.edu

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C.A. Tuggle Professor 919.962.5694 catuggle@unc.edu Leroy Towns Professor of the practice of journalism and research fellow, Program on Public Life 919.843.5388 dltowns@email.unc.edu Lucila Vargas Associate professor 919.962.2366 lcvargas@email.unc.edu

Ruth Walden James Howard and Hallie McLean Parker Distinguished Professor 919.962.4088 walden@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

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Emeriti John B. Adams Harry Amana Rich Beckman Tom Bowers A. Richard Elam Jr. Robert Lauterborn Raleigh C. Mann James J. Mullen Philip Meyer Carol Reuss Stuart Wilson Sechriest Chuck Stone

Visiting Scholars

Retirements

China Yin Weizhi Department of Journalism, China University of Political Science and Law

Professors Rich Beckman, Robert Lauterborn and Phil Meyer retired this year after decades of teaching, research and service at the school. Park Librarian Barbara Semonche announced that she will retire in February 2009.

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Xinshu Zhao Professor zhao@email.unc.edu

Iraq Ahmed Fadaam New York Times Baghdad bureau Korea Young Hae Choi Business desk, Dong-A Ilbo Daily Jae-Young Kim Department of Communication, Chungnam National University Chun Jae Lee Reporter, Hankyoreh Daily Newspaper Si-Hoon Lee Keimyung University

Beckman, who was a James L. Knight Professor and head Rich Beckman of the visual communication program, joined the faculty in 1978 and spent the next 30 years at Carolina.

He led the school’s visual communication program into the world of digital journalism, pioneering ambitious multimedia documentary projects that garnered numerous awards.

Beckman is now the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami.

Lauterborn, also a James L. Knight Professor, came to the school in 1986 after a 30-year professional career in which he worked in many facets of the advertising business – account, media, creative and client. He co-authored “Integrated Marketing Communications” which is available in more than a dozen languages.

Meyer, who was Knight Chair in Journalism, had been at Carolina since 1981. Before coming to the school, Meyer was a ground-breaking reporter and respected journalism scholar.

He reported for the Detroit Free Press, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s coverage of the 1967 Detroit riots.

He worked in Knight Ridder’s corporate headquarters applying social science methBarbara Semonche odology to newspaper marketing and the development of an early electronic information service. His 1973 book, “Precision Journalism,” is one of the most significant books of the 20th century on journalism and mass communication. His most recent book, “The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age,” was published in 2004.

Bob Lauterborn

Semonche has been school librarian since 1990 and was the news research librarian at the Durham Herald-Sun for 13 years before joining the school. She is the recipient of numerous awards and author of several articles on news librarianship.

Phil Meyer

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The UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication played a significant role in the 2008 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) convention with 19 graduate students involved in 29 papers, 10 faculty involved in 11 papers and alumni accounting for 43 listings in the event’s program.

AEJMC held its annual convention in Chicago Aug. 6-9. This year’s theme was transformation in the journalism and communication disciplines and industries.

Doctoral student Sherine El-Toukhy’s paper in the AEJMC Law and Policy Division earned the top student award. Nine of the 32 papers accepted in the Law and Policy Division had UNC affiliations. Peter Bobkowski’s paper “Cultivating Critical Thinking in a Media Ethics Classroom” won the Carol Burnett Award for top student paper in the Media Ethics Division.

Three of the school’s students – Mackenzie Cato, Justin Martin and Hai Tran – had three or more papers accepted for the conference.

Several former doctoral students in the school presented papers. Former doctoral student Edward Alwood’s latest book, “Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press,” won the 2008 James Tankard Book Award.

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Enrollment Snapshot, Fall 2008 Total enrollment: Undergraduates: Advertising Electronic Communication News-Editorial Public Relations Visual Communication Multimedia Graphics Photo

936 806 178 (22%) 92 (11%) 150 (19%) 238 (30%) 148 (18%) 27 59 62

Graduate students: Master’s 47 Doctoral 46 Distance education: Certificate in Technology and Communication

Student Honors Undergraduate Awards John Adkisson 2007 N.C. Press Photographers Pictures of the Year Contest WHO

Student Photographer of the Year Runner-Up

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Honorable Mention, Feature

Brian Allen 2007 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards Third Place, regional competition, Television Sports Photography, “UNC-Duke Basketball 2007”

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Catherine Cannon 29th College Television Awards Second Place, Newscast, “Carolina Week,” Oct. 3, 2007

Jennifer Carpenter 2007 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards First Place, national competition, Television News Photography, “Davina Jones” First Place, regional competition, Television InDepth Reporting, “Davina Jones” First Place, regional competition, Television News Photography, “Davina Jones”

Wilson Andrews 48th Annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation Journalism Awards Program Second Place, Multimedia Competition

Brendan Brown Thomas L. Phillips Collegiate Journalism Award Second Prize, The Fund for American Studies The Americanism Educational League Third Place, Investigative Journalism Contest

Jennifer Carpenter

National Finalist, Video Feature Segment

Lauren Cowart 2007 N.C. Press Photographers Pictures of the Year Contest First Place, Illustration Second Place, Sports Feature Honorable Mention, Multimedia

2007 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards Second Place, regional competition, Television General News Reporting, “Hemlocks in Danger”

Eric Johnson and Joseph Schwartz

Second Place, regional competition, In-Depth Reporting, “Eyes of the Storm”

Lib Curlee

Ricky Leung

National Broadcasting Society 45th National Undergraduate Student Electronic Media Competition

48th Annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation Journalism Awards Program

National Finalist, Video News Package

Elizabeth DeOrnellas and Stephanie Metzen 2007 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards First Place, regional competition, In-Depth Reporting, “Immigration Series”

Amy Eagleburger Internship, The Arizona Republic, Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism

LaToya Evans UWIRE 100 list of top college journalists

Heather Forster Finalist, PR Week magazine’s 2008 student of the year contest

Erin Franklin 2007 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards Third Place, regional competition, Television Feature, “Honeybees” National Broadcasting Society 45th National Undergraduate Student Electronic Media Competition First Place, Video News Package

Kurt Gentry 2007 ACP Pacemaker Awards First Place, Infographic

Caitlin Harrison, Margaret Moore and Elizabeth Ward Honorable Mention, 3rd Annual Yellow Pages Collegiate Advertising Challenge

Heather Forster

2007 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards

Third Place, Multimedia Competition 62nd College Photographer of the Year

Erin Franklin

Bronze, Individual Still Image/ Audio Story or Essay

Jessica Lin Selected for Dow Jones Newspaper Fund editing program at Newsday

Joanne McVerry 2007 N.C. Press Photographers Pictures of the Year Contest Student Photographer of the Year

Joseph Schwartz

Katie Miller National Broadcasting Society 45th National Undergraduate Student Electronic Media Competition National Finalist, Video Feature Package

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First Place, Video News Segment

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Sierra Moore National Broadcasting Society 45th National Undergraduate Student Electronic Media Competition National Finalist, Video News Segment

Lindsay Naylor Selected for Dow Jones Newspaper Fund editing program at Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald

Jonathan Oh Broadcast Education Association, Festival of Media Arts Second Place, Weather Anchor

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National Broadcasting Society 45th National Undergraduate Student Electronic Media Competition

Mark Olexik 2007 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards Finalist, national competition, Television Breaking News Reporting, “Crane Accident” Finalist, national competition, Television Sports Reporting, “Swimmer Story” First Place, regional competition, Television Breaking News Reporting, “Crane Accident” First Place, regional competition, Television Sports Reporting, “Swimmer Story” National Broadcasting Society 45th National Undergraduate Student Electronic Media Competition First Place, Video Feature Segment First Place, Video Sports Segment

Adam Rhew Broadcast Education Association, Festival of Media Arts Adam Rhew reports during the January 2008 UNC men’s basketball game against UNC-Asheville.

Second Place, Radio Hard News Reporting, “Davina Jones Shooting” 2007 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards Finalist, national competition, Radio In-Depth Reporting, “Davina Jones Shooting” First Place, regional competition, Radio InDepth Reporting, “Davina Jones Shooting” National Broadcasting Society 45th National Undergraduate Student Electronic Media Competition

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National Finalist, Audio News Segment

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UWIRE 100 list of top college journalists

Samuel J. Rosenthal 2007 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards First Place, regional competition, Sports Column Writing

Joseph Schwartz 2007 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards Third Place, regional competition, Feature Writing, “Marching into History” UWIRE 100 list of top college journalists Walter Storholt calls the play-by-play during the January 2008 UNC men’s basketball game against UNC-Asheville.

Walter Storholt Broadcast Education Association, Festival of Media Arts First place, Radio Hard News Reporting,

“Distracted Driving” First place, Sports Reporting, “Running Blind” 2007 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards First Place, national competition, Radio Sports Reporting, “Running Blind” Third Place, regional competition, Radio News Reporting, “Distracted Driving” First Place, regional competition, Radio Sports Reporting, “Running Blind” UWIRE 100 list of top college journalists

First Place, Audio Sports Segment 2008 Hearst Journalism Awards Program Third Place, National Radio Broadcast News Championship

Crystal Street 62nd College Photographer of the Year Gold, Individual Still Image/Audio Story or Essay 2007 N.C. Press Photographers Pictures of the Year Contest First Place, Multimedia

Julia Turkewitz 2007 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards Third Place, regional competition, Sports Photography, “Raleigh Rollers”

UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication 48th Annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation Journalism Awards Program First Place overall, Multimedia Competition First Place overall, Broadcast News 62nd College Photographer of the Year Silver, Multimedia Project Award of Excellence, Multimedia Project 2008 Online News Association awards Best Student Journalism, “South of Here” 2008 Best of Photojournalism, NPPA Second Place, Best Multimedia Package “On the Line: Stories of Economic Hardship in North Carolina”

UWIRE 100 list of top college journalists

Crew, “Carolina Connection”

Jim Walsh

2007 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards

2007 ACP Pacemaker Awards Third Place, Feature Story

Sam Wineka Selected for Dow Jones Newspaper Fund editing program at Hartford Courant

2008 Public Service Scholar Graduates UNC Center for Public Service Jabeen Ahmad Kerry Cannity Alison Cary-Coleman Carrie Crespo Brooke Ericson Danielle Fuller

First Place, regional competition, Radio Newscast, “Carolina Connection” National Broadcasting Society 45th National Undergraduate Student Electronic Media Competition National Finalist, Audio News Program First Place, Audio Magazine Program

Crew, “Carolina Week” National Broadcasting Society 45th National Undergraduate Student Electronic Media Competition First Place, Video News Program

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First Place, Audio News Segment

Amy Jicha Joanne McVerry Rebecca Rolfe Megan Turek Margaret Wright

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National Broadcasting Society 45th National Undergraduate Student Electronic Media Competition

Terri Bailey 2008 Tanner Teaching Assistants’ Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Erin Coyle Paper “Flashes From the Nation: E.L. Godkin’s Reflections on the Cultural Antecedents for American Privacy Law” won top student paper in the History Division at the 2008 AEJMC Convention in Chicago

Chad Carroll 2007 Northwestern Mutual Best Master’s Thesis Award, co-sponsored by the Institute for Public Relations, “The U.S. Army Public Diplomacy Officer: Military Public Affairs Officers’ Roles in the Global Information Environment”

Carla Babb

National Finalist, Video News Program National Finalist, Video PSA National Finalist, Overall Web site

Staff, The Daily Tar Heel 2007 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards First Place, regional competition, Online InDepth Reporting, “Eyes of the Storm”

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Best Affiliated Web site, regional competition, DailyTarHeel.com

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2007 ACP Online Pacemaker Finalist Four-year Daily Newspaper category ACP Best of Show, 2007 National College Media Convention First Place, Four-year Daily Broadsheet

Graduate Awards

Phil Daquila Selected as Carolina’s university liaison for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Founded the UNC chapter of Students for Meaningful Media, an organization dedicated to celebrating and critically examining media and the role they can play in changing the world.

Scott Dunn Top paper award at the American Academy of Advertising Conference for “The Effect of Narratives on Perceptions of Parasocial and Candidate Trust in Political Ads,” co-authored with assistant professor Janas Sinclair

Greg Efthimiou Arthur W. Page Corporate Communications Case Study Competition First place, Communication Schools category, “Jet Blue Airways: Regaining Altitude After the Valentine’s Day Massacre of 2007”

Carla Babb

Michael Fuhlhage

Selected to be North Carolina’s representative among 51 citizen journalists from every state and Washington, D.C., on “Street Team ‘08” as part of MTV’s “Choose or Lose” campaign

Honorable mention for top student paper at the American Journalism Historians Association in Seattle in October 2008 for “A Blanketed Nation of Thieves and Harlots: How New York Tribune Correspondents Portrayed the Mexican American Southwest in the 1860s”

2007 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards Third Place, regional competition, Radio Feature, “African American Firsts” Second Place, regional competition, Television In-Depth Reporting, “Dirty Old Well” 29th College Television Awards Third Place, Newscast, “Carolina Week,” Dec. 5, 2007

Jonathan Jones Named president of the board of directors of the DTH Publishing Co., publisher of The Daily Tar Heel.

Dean Mundy Accepted to the University’s Future Faculty Fellows Program.

Sherine El-Toukhy

Courtney Woo

Sherine El-Toukhy Top student paper in the Law and Policy Division at the 2008 AEJMC Convention in Chicago for “Online Defamation: Protection Scope of the Communications Decency Act”

Hai Tran Top student paper in the Minorities and Communication Division at the 2008 AEJMC Convention in Chicago for “From Asian Media to Asian Identity”

Courtney Woo Arthur W. Page Corporate Communications Case Study Competition Grand Prize, “Mattel Recalls 2007: Communication Implications for Quality Control, Outsourcing and Consumer Relations”

School Scholarships and Awards James J. Mullen Award to the Outstanding Graduating Senior in Advertising Ben Fisher John R. Bittner Award to the Outstanding Graduating Senior in Electronic Communication Adam Rhew O.J. Coffin Award to the Outstanding Graduating Senior in News-Editorial Journalism Kathryn Hoffmann Lois and H.C. Cranford Award to the Outstanding Graduating Senior in Public Relations Heather Forster Stuart Sechriest Award to the Outstanding Graduating Senior in Visual Communication Rebecca Rolfe

Outstanding M.A. Graduate Gregory Efthimiou Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate Derigan Silver John B. Adams Award for Excellence in Mass Communication Law Derigan Silver Peggy Allen Community Journalism Scholarship Sara Gregory AT&T Business Journalism Internship Award Amy Eagleburger Jim Batten Community Newspaper Internship Colin Campbell Peggy Blanchard Dissertation Support Award Erin Coyle

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Awards

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Top: Ben Fisher with Dean Folkerts at May 2008 Commencement.

Bottom: Piotr Bobkowski accepts the William F. Clingman Jr. Ethics Award.

Jim and Pat Thacker Sports Communication Internship Rachel Ullrich M.S. Van Hecke Award Lauren Berry, Melissa Moser

David Ely

Julia Ritchey

Capstrat Internship and Scholarship Kaley Crouse

Norval Neil Luxon Prize for Scholarship ( Junior) Jonathan Lesica

Robin Clark Experience Nicole Norfleet

Norval Neil Luxon Prize for Scholarship (Senior) Kelly Giles

William Francis Clingman Jr. Ethics Award Piotr Bobkowski, Michele Jones, Mark Slagle Kathryn M. Cronin Scholarship in Medical Journalism Prashant Nair Jim D’Aleo Award Rebecca Blatt Documentary Photojournalism Award Jennifer Tenney

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John L. Greene Award Julia Ritchey

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Meredith Peck

Fred Hutchison Travel Scholarship Colin Campbell, Erin Gifford, Christina Maness, Mary Lide Parker, Jaime Zea Edward Jackson International Scholarship David Ely, Jaime Zea Peter Lars Jacobson Award in Medical Journalism Robin Hilmantel Larry and Carolyn Keith Awards in Sports Journalism Joanne McVerry, Gregory Found Charles Kuralt Fellowship in International Broadcasting Catherine Cannon, Julia Ritchey

Tom Wicker Scholarship Prashant Nair Earl Wynn Broadcast Award Catherine Cannon

Scholarships Floyd Alford Jr. Scholarship Ariel Zirulnick

Jeff MacNelly Award Mason Phillips

Phillip Alston Scholarship Rachel English

Maxwell Graduate Scholarship in Medical Journalism Prashant Nair

Tom Bost Scholarship Kathryn McNamara

Joseph L. Morrison Award for Excellence in Journalism History Brandon Murrill N.C. Psychoanalytic Foundation Medical Journalism Award Sheila Read Robert Pittman Scholarship and Internship Andrew Dunn Pfizer Minority Medical Journalism Scholarship Jeff Yeo Carol Reuss Awards (Graduate) Terri Bailey, Matthew Moorlag Carol Reuss Award (Undergraduate) Kellie Cutrer Eugene L. Roberts Prize Lindsey R. Naylor Minnie S. and Eli A. Rubinstein Research Award Cong Li, Ying Du Steamboat Foundation Scholarship and Internship Kayla Carrick

Tom Bowers Scholarship Lauren Ahlschlager Diane Harvey Bradley Scholarship Jaime Zea Rick Brewer Scholarship Rachel Ullrich Michael Bumgardner Scholarship Sara Wilfley John Albert Campbell III Scholarship Brian Joseph Willett Carolinas Health Care P.R. and Marketing Scholarship Kathryn Blackmar Elton Casey Scholarship Kelsey Crews Ardis Cohoon Scholarship Katherine Winders Louis M. Connor Jr. Scholarship Samuel Lau, Molly Thebes Carl Council Scholarship Donata Marcantonio James Davis Scholarship Jaclyn Pardini

Harvey Laffoon Scholarship Rachel Umstead

Westy Fenhagen Scholarship Roxanne Turpen

Mackey-Byars Scholarship Jasmin Jones

Ameel Fisher Scholarship Robin Hilmantel, Jillian Nadell, Dominic RuizEsparza, Gordon Schuit

Raleigh Mann Scholarship Dominic Ruiz-Esparza

Mary Kathryn Forbes Scholarship Deborah Neffa

Don Maurer Scholarship Jennifer Scholl Molly McKay Scholarship Stephanie Nobles

Victoria M. Gardner Scholarship Danielle Verrilli

C.A. “Pete” McKnight Scholarship Alexander Trowbridge

Kays Gary Scholarship Roxanne Turpen

Edward Heywood Megson Scholarship Tyler Williams

Stephen Gates Scholarship Walter Storholt Joy Gibson Scholarship Meredith Peck L.C. Gifford Distinguished Journalism Scholarship Brendan Brown, Meredith Karr John W. Harden Scholarship Kelly Giles Charles Hauser Scholarship Meredith Karr Paul Green Houston Scholarship Brian Willett Julius C. Hubbard Scholarship Amy Denton James Hurley III Bicentennial Merit Scholarship Colin Campbell Gene Jackson Scholarship Robert Merritt Glenn Keever Scholarship Jacqueline Bradley

Quincy Sharpe Mills Scholarship Meghan Woods, Nicole Norfleet, Amanda Younger, Sapna Maheshwari, Lorelle Wing-Yin Yuen

A.C. Snow Scholarship Dominic Ruiz-Esparza Hal Tanner Sr. Scholarship Kaitlyn Jordan Tucker Family Scholarship Stuart West Marjorie Usher Ragan Scholarship Tonya Chin, Kathleen Doll David Jordan Whichard II Scholarship David Ely David Julian Whichard Scholarship Abby Farson, Rachael Oehring Jonathan H. Witherspoon Scholarship Amanda McPherson WKIX Alumni Association Scholarship Kyle Lang WTVD Endowment Scholarship Victoria Felle, Stacey Axelrod, Kathryn Blackmar

Morisey Scholarship Gabrielle Jones N.C. Black Publishers Association Scholarship Leah Hughes N.C. Press Assoc./N.C. Press Services Scholarship Jennifer Scholl N.C. Working Press Scholarship Emily Stephenson Erwin Potts Scholarship Chiara Austin Peter D. Pruden & Phyllis H. Pruden Scholarship Sjaan Demmink Bob Quincy Scholarship Kelly Esposito Michael John Sauer Scholarship Meredith Peck

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Reese Felts Scholarship Kyle Lang, Bethany Tuggle, Jennifer Carpenter

Knight Foundation Distinguished Journalism Scholarship David Ely, Lenise Willis

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Robert Winchester Dodson Scholarship Sean McKeithan

Student Organizations 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

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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 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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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 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

Ph.D. Julie C. Lellis Thomas Clark Terry Weiyang Joann Wong M.A. Julia Isabel Fernandez Matthew James Moorlag Certificate in Technology and Communication Marina Frances Calabrese Boris Erwin Gabriel Hartl Leslie Jane Wilkinson B.A. Elyse Allerton Archer Gina Lynn Bader Shepard A. Butler Jack Farrell Carley Marium Zulfiqar Chaudhry John Edward Childers Katherine Faye Dinterman Sarah Elizabeth Donovan Kennan Ashley Eiler Laura Granfortuna Sara McKenzie Hamrick Juliana Elizabeth Hanson Quinton Antoine Harper Crystal Dawn Harward Ashley Ann Huffman Alexis Danielle Joffe Emily Taylor Johnson Sarah Layton Jones Lativia Malika Jones Bolarinwa Nicholas Austin Kane Alexandra Kay Kennerly Paige Elena Lucas Rebecca Taylor Macatee Robert Walker Matteson Marissa Ashley May Kristin Mary McKnight Gilbert Carmichael McLemore III Edythe M. McNamee Tabitha Lee Messick Kathryn Louise Miller Erin Elizabeth Mizelle John M. Musci

Davina Dawn Newby Marissa Nilon Mark Joseph Olexik Michael Walton Osborne Kathryn Elizabeth Parker Christine Renee Robella Chloe Jade Russell Linjun Shen Nicole M. Soriano Michaele Ann Stafford Casey Trent Sturgill Erin Elizabeth Summers Susan Ashley Tart Elizabeth Marie Thomas Kristen Elizabeth Trautman Jonathan Howell Weiner Traci Michelle White

May 2008 Ph.D. Rita Faye Colistra M.A. Rebecca Emily Blatt Kelly Rae Chi Julia Connors Margarita David DePano Gregory George Efthimiou Joshua David Meyer Michael A. O’Connell Remy Thomas Scalza Kristin Margaret Simonetti Jeffrey Soplop Julia Allen Vail Certificate in Technology and Communication Lauren Livingston Brewer Thomas P. Clapham Amanda M. Clark Amy-Mae Miller Ryan C. Tuck B.A. Sara Aghajanian Jabeen Ahmad Bryan Anna Asia Armstrong Addy Auten Kelly Ayre Adam Bair Crystal Baldwin Leslie Barrows Brittany Behrens

Jasmine Bell Danielle Bergmann Joshua Bernstein Lauren Berry Jeffrey Billings Emily Boehling Kathryn Bolles Pharen Bowman Anne Brannon Lauren Braswell Joseph Braun Jessica Brickell Hollis Brown Emily Bucci Amy Bugno Robin Burk Kim Burke Emily Burns Brittany Bussian Kristen Cabe Rebecca Calderara Stokely Caldwell III Erin Callender Joanne Cannell Kerry Cannity Catherine Cannon Monica Carper Sade Carter Alison Cary-Coleman Jamie Caswell Faith Chu Sarah Chumbley Galen Clarke Calvert Coley Lauren Coley Kelsey Colt Shannon Connell Allison Cooke Bradley Copeland Elisabeth Cordell Caroline Craft Lindsey Craven Carrie Crespo Callan Crisp Chelsea Crispin Elizabeth Curlee Shayna Currin Andrew Dally

Kamisha Darden W. Reed Darsie Lauren Davis Meghan Davis Rachel Davis Ryan Dean Robert Decker III Holland Donaldson Karin Dryhurst Caroline Duke Patricia Duncan Amy Eagleburger Faren Edwards Anna Egleston Julie Ellison Randall Elmo Lauren Eney Brooke Ericson Megan Etling Derick Evans LaToya Evans Shera Everette Chelsea Faircloth Maura Feil Connie Feng Brian Fenty Laura Filip Vanessa Finnie Ben Fisher Chelsea Flaherty

Jessica Florence Kerry Flynn Brianna Foote Heather Forster Erin Franklin Carson Freeman Catherine Freeman Laura Fried Danielle Fuller Marian Garrett Gretchen Gaskill Andrew Gibbons Kelly Giedraitis Lillian Goldenthal William Graham Catherine Greene Catherine Greer Melanie Gunderson Emerich Gutter Amy Guyer Selket Guzman Jesse Hall Natalie Hammel Sara Hamrick Mary Hancock Rebekah Hargrove Elise Harwood Siera Heavner Alex Henderson David Hodges

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Commencement Lists

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Kathryn Hoffmann Katherine Hollander Kaitlin Horst Arthur Howson III Amy Hudak Brandon Huffman Sara Huffman Caroline Hutcheson Andrea Ide Robert Jessup IV Markia Jeter Amy Jicha Dionne Johnson Laura Johnson Megan Johnson Stephanie Johnson Jeffrey Joyce Megan Kaltenbach Lauren Kelley Stephanie Kelly Tony Kim Whitney Kisling Christopher Kostyla Alison Kroeger Dana Kublin Joseph Kyzer Amanda Lamoureux Katie Lancaster Dorsey Landis Megan LaPlaca Stephen Largen Andrew Lavender Danielle Lee Wai Leung Daniel Lewis Sally Lewis Dianna Leyton Jessica Lin Erin Littrell James Lowe Katherine Macpherson

Taryn Mahoney Megan Malley Molly Malloy Shayla Martin Simone Martin Natalie Mayo Amy McCall Keeley McGowan Elizabeth McLean Sean McMullan Cora McNeil Megan McSwain Joanne McVerry Alison Menius David Miller Kathryn Miller Rachel Moltz Sierra Moore Virginia Moore Thomas Morgan Cori Morris Laura Morrison Miles Moser Alisha Mullin Nicole Murphy Brandon Murrill Virginia Nash Lindsay Naylor Heath Nettles Stephanie Newton William Niver Samantha Newman Katherine Newnam Allison O’Connor Caitlin O’Connor Jordan O’Donnell Laura Oleniacz Kelsey O’Neill Chassity Overcash Philip Owen Kristin Oxford Alicia Parlapiano Seth Peavey Adam Pedersen Spencer Perkins Andrew Perry Stephanie Perry Rebecca Peterson Amanda Pittman Chanda Pittman Kristen Pope Jake Potter Kathryn Powell

Elizabeth Pratt Stacy Putzakulish Erica Rafferty Katharine Ragsdale Lauren Ramsey Katherine Ratchford Braden Rawls Bryan Reed Timothy Reese Elizabeth Regalia Gabriella Remington Adam Rhew Lindsay Richardson Jonelle Richman Julia Ritchey Ashley Roberts Phillip Roberts Victoria Robinette Erika Rockett Amanda Rodrigues-Smith Rebecca Rolfe Randi Russell Julia Ryan Anna Sandelli William Sands Richard Schossow Joseph Schwartz Lauren Scott Nicholas Scott John Seeds Whitney Sharpe Stacey Simeone Ashley Simmons Abby Singer Kelly Slack Stephanie Slipher Laura Smith Cristena Snarski Whitney Speaks Casey Spellman James Spence Brittany Spencer Katherine Spencer Jaclyn Spies Christine Spiller Daegan Stafford-Crews Katherine Stange Elizabeth Stanley William Steele Karli Stephenson Kirby Stirland Angela Strader Kristen Strauss Crystal Street Erin Summers Anna Swisher Leah Szarek Kimberly Taft Kayla Tausche Tracey Theret Jessica Thom Jessica Thornton Amy Townsend Jason Tucker Megan Turek

Julia Turkewitz Alison Wadsworth Maegan Walker Maghon Walker Mary-Katherine Walston Megan Warren Allie Wassum Cameron Weaver Cory Wessel Catherine Williams Claire Williamson Samuel Wineka Alexandria Wolfe Andrew Woodin Kelly Woodruff Cassandra Woods Kelton Wright Margaret Wright Peter Wylie Jr. Laura Yale Yun Yang Cassandra Zink Rachel Zubatch Erin Zureick

August 2008 Ph.D. Terri Ann Bailey Tara M. Kachgal M.A. Carla Noel Babb Daniel William Cloud Keun Yung Hur Kelly Michele Marks Maia Mateshvili Ann Elizabeth McGinnis Sarah Elizabeth Whitmarsh Bartosz Wojtek Wojdynski B.A. Chad Barton Evan Burkhart Noreen Charge Reine Duffy Mary Frances Fawcett Gregory Found Catherine Fowler Joseph George Zachary Harward Lydia Howard Samuel Johnson Michael Kearney Rachel Kurowski Nicole Lukosius Catherine Marks Courtney McClellan Sarah McCormick Andrew McNulty Joyce Pope Charde Romero Nicholas Scott Amy Shaffer Mark Shifflet Laura Veprakas

Staff

New Staff

DALIS NORTHUP joined the school in July 2008, assisting and advising students with Sharon Jones in the student records office.

Prior to moving to North Carolina, she lived in Los Angeles working in television and film production and development. She worked on various productions including, “The X-Files,” “Jamie Kennedy Experiment” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” among others.

DAN SILER joined the staff as a TV director and producer in January 2008. He helps with the Carolina Week newscast while handling technical duties in the school’s news studio. He graduated from the school in 2005 from the electronic communication program, working for both Carolina Week and Carolina Connection.

Before returning to the school, he worked at the WCHL 1360 radio station in Chapel Hill.

BENJI CAUTHREN, who has been with the school since 2003, was promoted to assistant director for development in August 2008.

SPEED HALLMAN, who has been with the school since 2004, was promoted to associate dean for development and alumni affairs.

Cindy Anderson, graduate program manager Received the Peer Recognition Award given by the Employee Forum.

Monica Hill, director, N.C. Scholastic Media Institute Invited to serve on the Advisory Board of the Center for Scholastic Journalism, a newly established center based at Kent State University and affiliated with the new Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism.

Appointed to the board of the National Scholastic Press Association.

Speed Hallman, associate dean for development and alumni affairs Named to the University History Council, a new organization composed of library and University staff and faculty with interest in and responsibilities for materials related to UNC history.

Fred Thomsen, director, information technology and services Terry Hill, television engineer EdTech magazine featured Thomsen and Hill in a story that covered educational technology being used at the school.

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AMY BUGNO joined the school in October 2008 as the development and alumni affairs assistant, working with Speed Hallman and Benji Cauthren. Bugno graduated from the school in May 2008 with a concentration in newseditorial journalism. She wrote for The Daily Tar Heel and Blue & White, and chaired UNC’s Relay for Life. After graduation, Bugno interned with Highlights Amy Bugno for Children magazine.

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JAY ALMERS joined the school in February 2008 as the educational content and Web site developer. He is improving the school’s Web presence – designing and implementing new features with various Web-based technologies.

Before joining the school, he worked for a local wholesale Internet service provider where he produced Web sites and Web-based applications for businesses such as Aventis and Volvo North America.

Staff Directory David Alexander Technical systems analyst 919.962.0527 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

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Amy Bugno Development and alumni affairs assistant 919.962.3037 amybugno@unc.edu

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Benji Cauthren Assistant director for development 919.843.2026 benji@unc.edu Malcolm Dougall Equipment room manager 919.962.0718 mdougall@email.unc.edu Morgan Ellis Special projects editor 919.843.0472 morgan_ellis@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

Jennifer Klimas Gallina Director, research administration 919.843.8186 jgallina@unc.edu

Linda Peterson School secretary 919.962.1204 lkpeters@email.unc.edu

Ken Hales Accounting manager 919.843.8293 tkhales@email.unc.edu

Barbara Semonche Director, Park Library 919.843.8300 bpsemonch@unc.edu

Speed Hallman Associate dean for development and alumni affairs 919.962.9467 speed_hallman@unc.edu

Dan Siler TV producer/director 919.843.6644 daniel.siler@gmail.com

Monica Hill Director, N.C. Scholastic Media Association 919.962.4639 ncsma@unc.edu

Louise Spieler Assistant dean for executive education and distance education 919.843.8137 lspieler@unc.edu

Terry Hill TV engineer 919.962.4075 terry_hill@unc.edu

Fred Thomsen Director, information technology and services 919.962.0281 thomsen@email.unc.edu

Lester Holley Assistant to accounting manager 919.843.8294 holley@email.unc.edu

David Whitehead Technical support analyst 919.962.0527 dwhitehe@email.unc.edu

Dottie Howell Assistant dean for business and finance 919.843.8287 dottie_howell@unc.edu

Kyle York Assistant to the dean for communications 919.966.3323 sky@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 Dalis Northup Student records assistant 919.962.3744 dnorthup@email.unc.edu Nancy Pawlow Office assistant 919.843.8304 nancy_pawlow@unc.edu

Alumni

Alumni News The school’s alumni make news almost every day, whether it’s a career move, family developments, honors and awards, or some unique accomplishment. The newest way to keep up with J-school alumni is through the school’s J-link social network.

Visit jomc.unc.edu/jlink to register, create a profile, re-connect with classmates, read the latest news from fellow alumni, and post your own news.

Here are a few news notes from alumni in the past year: Russell “Rusty” Carter ’71 Honored by the UNC General Alumni Association with 2008 Distinguished Service Medal, having served on the University’s Board of Visitors, the Board of Trustees, the MoreheadCain Scholars Selection Committee and having established the W. Horace Carter Distinguished Professorship in the school to honor his father

Tori Ekstrand ’03 (Ph.D.) Awarded Bowling Green State’s Young Scholar Award Ken Gaither ’04 (Ph.D.) Book “Building a Nation’s Image on the World Wide Web” published by Cambria Press Ashlan Gorse ’02 Named E!News correspondent and fill-in anchor

Russell “Rusty” Carter

Raymond McCrea Jones ’06 Photo documentary book, “Out of Step: Faces of Straight Edge,” published in October 2007

by Southern Empire Records Erica Beshears Perel ’98 Accepted position at The Daily Tar Heel as its first newsroom adviser Debra Pickrel ’80 Received the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards’ Gold Medal in the Architecture Category for her co-authored book, “Frank Lloyd Wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959”

Alumnus wins prestigious Tankard book award

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By Sara Peach

Alwood’s book, “Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press,” won this year’s James W. Tankard award Aug. 6, at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication convention in Chicago.

Alwood, 59, earned a Ph.D. from the school in 2000. He also earned bachelor’s degrees in journalism and political science from UNC in 1972.

The Tankard award honors outstanding scholarly books in journalism and mass communication that are written by AEJMC members. It is named for another UNC alumnus, James W. Tankard Jr. (M.A. ’65), a University of Texas at Austin professor who died in 2005.

“I was thrilled to be a finalist,” Alwood recalled.

“To win it was a complete surprise.”

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Now an associate professor of journalism at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, Alwood got his start in the news industry at age 7 by selling newspapers after school. He later worked as a correspondent at CNN and earned

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FBI agents, newspapermen and genuine communists populate a new, award-winning book

by UNC-Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication alumnus Edward Alwood.

five Emmy nominations for his broadcast work.

His first book, “Straight News: Gays, Lesbians, and the News Media,” was published in 1996.

Alwood’s new book, an expansion of his dissertation, examines how journalists became targets of communist witch hunts in the 1950s.

During this striking period of government intrusion on the press, more than 100 journalists were subpoenaed by government committees to testify about their connections to the Communist Party.

New York Times writer Alden Whitman, who later became famous for revolutionizing obituary writing, was one of the journalists caught in the McCarthyist dragnet. He had joined the Young Communist League as a college student and remained a party member until the late 1940s.

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On Jan. 6, 1956, in testimony before the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Whitman acknowledged his affiliation with the Communist Party but refused to name other party members.

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“My private affairs, my beliefs, my associations, are not, I believe, proper subjects for investigation by this subcommittee,” Alwood quotes him as saying.

A federal district court judge found Whitman guilty of 19 counts of contempt of Congress, one count for each question he refused to answer. The Supreme Court overturned his conviction six years later on a technicality.

Alwood reports that in all, four journalists received contempt convictions as a result of the investigations. In addition, publishers who feared a backlash from advertisers and readers fired 14 journalists, including four at The New York Times, who refused to cooperate with the government committees.

“Newspapers were as afraid as just about anyone and therefore let their guard down on being watchdogs on government,” Alwood said. “Fear trumps logic every time.”

Alwood said journalists remain vulnerable to government pressure. “Journalism beats its

chest all the time about how strong it is and how willing to stand up against authority,” he said. But when the government invokes national security, as it did in the lead-up to the Iraq war, some journalists are intimidated.

“If politicians can generate fear, they can get away with just about anything,” he said.

A ‘staggering’ research task Alwood dedicated his book to his dissertation adviser, Margaret “Peggy” Blanchard, who died in 2004.

He said Blanchard suggested the topic one day when he mentioned he had heard that Alden Whitman was a Communist.

“She said, ‘Nobody has done anything on that.’

And I said, ‘All right, that’s it,’” Alwood said.

“Peggy was absolutely a big influence on Ed,” said Anne Johnston, associate dean for graduate studies in the school and a member of Alwood’s dissertation committee. “She was a wonderful historian, and she really encouraged her students to make connections to the broader cultural context, not just describe what happened.”

After Alwood graduated from UNC in 2000, he spent four years expanding his research, combing through thousands of records in public and private archives, transcripts of investigative committees and FBI files he obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The FBI files alone filled more than three file drawers.

“I never dreamed how much work would go into researching this,” he said. “There were numerous times when I thought, ‘I’m never going to get this.’”

In 2006, Alwood took a leave of absence from Quinnipiac to finish the book.

“That allowed me to lead kind of a strange life,” he said. “I’d work until I got sleepy, and I’d sleep.

Then I’d get up and work until I got sleepy again.”

Lisa Burns, a professor of media studies at Quinnipiac, said Alwood’s meticulous approach to the subject is typical of his work.

“When he dives into a subject, he does so headfirst,” she said. “The research that he did for this book is just staggering.”

Lois Boynton, now an associate professor at UNC, was a classmate of Alwood’s during

their doctoral studies. She remembers him as a focused student who had a knack for seeing issues from a fresh perspective.

“He’s very much willing to ask some tough questions,” she said. “He’s a die-hard researcher with a reporter’s edge. It’s a phenomenal mix. It exhausts me to watch all that he takes on.”

Sarah Peach is a second-year Park Fellow master’s student.

Alumna honored among 15 to Watch by PR News

Lange, 24, is one of 15 public relations professionals age 30 or younger to receive the national award given annually by PR News, a weekly public relations and marketing trade publication. Those named are making an impact in the field early in their careers.

Scott Sutton, a 2005 graduate working for Progress Energy Carolinas, was the youngest among the 15 honored in 2007.

Lange received the award in November at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Since joining Edelman in spring 2007, Lange has been active in the gaming arena and made the leap from intern to account executive in just over 12 months. Her highest profile projects to date have been the Halo 3 launch and the urban outreach program for Xbox 360 in 2007, which culminated in saturation media coverage of the Limited Edition Grand Theft Auto console. The Halo 3 launch won PR Week and Sabre awards for best technology campaign.

While in the last year of her undergraduate program, Lange and her team developed and pitched an integrated marketing communication campaign to Wachovia Banking Corp.

“The campaign, ‘My Wachovia,’ was the most sophisticated I had seen in more than a decade of teaching campaigns classes,” said assistant profes-

Jessica Lange

In her spare time, Lange gives back to the community as a volunteer for The Trevor Project, the nation’s only 24/7 suicide and crisis hotline for gay and questioning youth.

Dougall and senior associate dean Dulcie Straughan nominated Lange for the award.

Ph.D. Alumni Association The third annual Ph.D. Alumni Breakfast, sponsored by the Triad Foundation, was held Aug. 8, 2008, in Chicago, at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s (AEJMC) national convention.

About 80 faculty, current doctoral students and Ph.D. Alumni Association members were Johanna Cleary given an update on the graduate program by Anne Johnston, associate dean for graduate studies. Dean Jean Folkerts talked about new funding initiatives, which include the Pruden fellowship and the Richard Cole Eminent Professor fellowship.

Johanna Cleary, a doctoral alumna and faculty member at the University of Florida, is the new president of the Ph.D. Alumni Association.

To join the group, or for more information, contact Cleary at jclearly@jou.ufl.edu.

WHO

Jessica Lange, account executive for the Microsoft Games Studies account with Edelman Worldwide, graduated in 2006.

sor Elizabeth Dougall. “The Wachovia representatives were blown away, as were Jessica’s peers.”

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The second school alumnus in two years has received a national PR News 15-to-Watch Award as an up-and-coming public relations practitioner.

Advisory boards

Board of Advisers

WHO

Members of the school’s Board of Visitors voted to change the group’s name to the Board of Advisers during its April 2008 meeting. The board is comprised of leading journalists, media professionals and executives committed to helping the school maintain its leadership role in journalism and mass communication education. Meeting twice a year, the board discusses the school’s plans and strategizes on how to best reach the school’s goals.

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Edward H. Vick, Chair Gloria Anderson Bonnie Angelo Stephanie Bass George Beasley Lorraine Bennett Tim Bennett Joe Benton Charles Broadwell Russell Carter Elizabeth “Lisa” Church Susan Credle Joel Curran Donald W. Curtis Richard Curtis Robin Daughtridge Frank Denton John L. Dotson Jr. Clyde Ensslin Ken Eudy John Fish Joyce Fitzpatrick Randall Fraser Robert Friedman Sam Fulwood Shailendra Ghorpade Bill Goodwyn Ric Gorman John L. Greene Wade Hargrove Bryant Haskins David Hawpe Tom Howe Kenny Irby Jamie Jacobson Karen Jurgensen

Larry Keith Brian Kelly Tom Kennedy William Keyes Jason Kilar David Kirk Barb Lee Donna Leinwand Draggan Mihailovich Janet Northen Roy H. (Trip) Park III Roy H. Park Jr. Walter D. Phillips Michael Pulitzer Dorothy S. Ridings H. Zane Robbins Cathy S. Roche Merrill Rose Deborah Simpkins J. Walker Smith Jr. Daniel Teachey Gene Upchurch Carl Venters Jim Wallace Paige West John Woestendiek David Woronoff

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From the school: Richard Cole Jay Eubank Jean Folkerts Speed Hallman Job Bob Hester Anne Johnston Louise Spieler Dulcie Straughan Kyle York

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Emeritus members: Ladd Baucom Donald Borreson Flinn Dallis Luchina Fisher Dionicio “Don” Flores Sonja Gantt Gibson Harry M. Jacobs Susanne Shaw Jon Witherspoon

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Daniel Teachey, President Matt Bowman, Vice President Benji Cauthren, Secretary Natalie Best Bob Bryant Liz Carroll Sarah Lamm Peter Mitchell Jim Muldrow Andrew Park Lisa Bay Adams, West Coast Regional Representative Katherine Ducker, New York City Regional Representative Polly Howes, Atlanta Regional Representative Kimberly May, Chicago Regional Representative David Small , D.C. Area Regional Representative

JOMC Foundation 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.

At the close of the 2007-2008 fiscal year, the school’s endowment was valued at more than $16.75 million. The endowment is managed by the UNC Investment Fund, which posted an 8 percent return in the last fiscal year.

Richard Cole, Jeannie Falknor and Wade Hargrove rotated off of the board this year as their terms expired. Bernie Prazenica, who accepted

Elizabeth Cook, Don Curtis, Elliott Potter and Jordy Whichard were re-elected to the board.

Newly elected to the board were John Idler of WTVD, Charles Broadwell of The Fayetteville Observer, Regina Howard-Glaspie of the Greensboro News & Record and Charlene Grunwaldt of the Triangle Business Journal.

OFFICERS Michael Pulitzer, President Orage Quarles III, Vice President Walter D. Phillips, Treasurer Jean Folkerts, Secretary FOUNDATION BOARD Charles Broadwell Elizabeth Cook Fred Crisp Jr. Donald Curtis Morgan Dickerman Mark Harden Ed Harper Regina Howard-Glaspie Charlene Grunwaldt John Idler Rick Jackson Deuce Niven Elliott Potter John Robinson Federico van Gelderen Carl Venters D. Jordan Whichard III

WHO

Each year, JAFA sponsors programs and events such as career mentoring, alumni receptions, student networking trips and resume workshops.

a position at WPVI in Philadelphia, resigned from the board, as did Jim Hefner, who accepted a position on the school’s faculty.

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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.

WHAT Updates

ABC News on Campus

Advertising

In May 2008, ABC News selected the school as home to a new digital bureau staffed by students. ABC News on Campus is a partnership with five top U.S. journalism schools to educate and mentor talented college students.

The bureau opened in September 2008.

Advertising is the second largest program in the school. Five faculty and 178 students are engaged in the study and practice of advertising during this time of fundamental change in the industry.

In addition to contributing stories through the bureau, students also helped to produce a September episode of “Good Morning America” staged in front of Carroll Hall.

Carolina’s bureau staff includes Carly Swain, Zachary Ferriola-Bruckenstein, Walter Storholt, Wilson Andrews and Jennifer Carpenter.

Swain serves bureau chief, and assistant professor Dave Cupp is the faculty adviser.

Any student may contribute ideas and content, not just the official staff. ABC News provides an annual stipend to manage the bureau and helps provide digital technology including video cameras, computers and editing software.

WHAT

Students report on stories in the Triangle area and produce a wide array of content for ABC News digital and broadcast platforms.

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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.

Advertising students have been visited by guest speakers including alumni Susan Credle, executive creative director of BBDO/New York, and David Oakley, founder and partner of the Boone Oakley advertising agency in Charlotte. Regular visiting speakers include Jeff Jones, president of McKinney, Paul Alexander, vice president of global advertising for Campbell Soup, and Bill Morton, CEO of the Jack Morton Agency.

Advertising alumni have been hired at agencies including Ogilvy and Crispin and companies like Apple and Unilever.

Membership in the Advertising Club continues to reach record levels. The club holds an advertising symposium every spring that attracts more than 150 students and 25 professionals to discuss career issues. Panelists came from various agencies and organizations that included Nike, NBA, Capstrat and the Carolina Hurricanes, among others. Brad Brinegar, chairman and CEO of McKinney, delivered the keynote address.

Professor John Sweeney with advertising students

Andaman Rising andamanrising.org Fourteen J-school students traveled to Phang Nga, Thailand, in summer 2008 to produce multimedia stories about life there after the 2004 tsunami. Phang Nga is a southern province of Thailand on the Andaman Sea – one of the areas hardest hit by the tsunami.

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Students used photos, audio, video, graphics and design to craft cultural snapshots of a region that has risen above tragedy. Working with a team of Thai translators, they documented the story of a teenage cross-dresser in a traditional Muslim community, the narrative of an illegal immigrant family from Myanmar, and the spiritual transformation of a young monk, among other stories.

Associate professor Pat Davison led the project as part of a second summer session course in the school. The group arrived in Thailand on June 21 and returned to the United States on July 18.

WHAT

The Kenan Institute Asia, a nonprofit organization with ties to UNC, provided logistical assistance to the school through its Tsunami Recovery Project office in Khao Lak.

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Above, top: Wat Lak Kaen, Khao Lak, Thailand. Every Thai Buddhist man faces the decision to be ordained from a few weeks to a lifetime. As a 15-day monk, Juttipong Wongpet, 21, is robed for merit, earning favor for his ancestors.

During that time, Wongpet will participate on long meditations and hard work like any other monk. Even though it’s a duty for every Thai man, Wongpet decided to enter the monastery to “clear my mind and soul and to live within the shade of Buddha’s protection.”

Above, bottom: After soccer practice on Ban Niang Beach, boys share a communal water cup.

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Natthawut Peutchgarn, or “Tata,” who lives on the small Muslim island of Ko Yao Noi, identifies with his Islamic heritage but also lives on the periphery. On occasion, he trades his school uniform for flamboyant dresses to perform like Thai pop singer Tata Young. In doing so, Peutchgarn is a Thai “katoey,” or ladyboy. Yet his community does not marginalize him. As he dances and sings at school assemblies, he is embraced by his Muslim society.

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Beijing Olympics The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) chose 31 Carolina journalism students to serve as media volunteers supporting international journalists covering the 2008 Olympic Games.

Only six U.S. and two Australian universities partnered with BOCOG to employ students in covering the games. It was the first time volunteers from outside the host country worked in the media department.

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Some students served as reporters at basketball, baseball and shooting events, gathering quotes from athletes in English and taking them to the international media center where translators made them available in other languages. Others worked directly with print and broadcast journalists at media hubs in the International Broadcast Center, the Main Press Center and the Ling Long Broadcast Tower near the National Stadium and the National Aquatics Center.

WHAT

Blogs 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.

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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.

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.

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Top: Students ride camels through inner Mongolia before the start of the Olympic Games in Beijing.

Middle: Students work as flash reporters after a baseball game during the Beijing Olympics.

Bottom: Ben Baden is interviewed by CCTV in China.

Talk Politics Authored by Leroy Towns, professor and research fellow in the UNC Program on Public Life, and Anne Johnston, professor and associate dean for graduate studies, this blog examines the intersection of politics and me-

dia. 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.

The Future of News Assistant professor Ryan Thornburg, an online newsroom veteran, blogs about journalism innovation, leadership, research and editorial product development.

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.

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.

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 third time in the contest’s fouryear existence, a Carolina journalism student has won the competition. The winner in 2007 was master’s student Daniel Johnson, who wrote a story about the Walla Walla, Wash., wine industry for The Seattle Times. A Carolina student finished second in the year one of our students did not win the contest.

In addition, students in the business journalism program helped launch the school’s 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 Hispanics.

WHAT

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. In 2007–2008, he kept readers up to date on the student “bucket brigade” which helped the Spring Hope Enterprise while the paper’s editor recovered from surgery.

as The Charlotte Observer. In the past year, graduates have accepted reporting positions at Bloomberg and The Financial Times.

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Thinking About College Teaching Tom Bowers, who retired from the school after 35 years on its faculty, continues to present his thoughts and experiences about various aspects of teaching. Through this blog, Bowers offers insight into the world of pedagogy for up-and-coming teachers in higher education.

Business Journalism The business journalism program graduated 13 students with a certificate in business journalism in May 2008 – the largest number to complete the program in one year.

Those students, as well as others still in the program, interned at publications such as the Triangle Business Journal, Bloomberg News and the business desks of newspapers such Business journalism professor Chris Roush with students.

In the past year, the school’s business journalism program also worked with the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond to conduct training on economics reporting for reporters in the Southeast, and ran a two-day business reporting workshop for journalism professors and students at historically black colleges and universities.

Career Services

WHAT

The school’s career services office works with students and alumni, helping with everything from crafting resumes to coordinating on-campus interviews to coaching soon-to-be graduates on networking strategies to gain a first post-college job.

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A wide range of newspapers, newswires, public relations and advertising agencies conducted on-campus interviews in 2008 for summer internships and full-time positions. These on-campus interviews came at an economicallychallenging time for many newspapers which have cut back on recruiting efforts and paid internships. Among those interviewing were The Orlando Sentinel, Bloomberg, Mundo Hispanico newspaper in Atlanta, Arkansas DemocratGazette, The Washington Post, Winston-Salem Journal, MLB.com, August Jackson Company, C-Ville Weekly, N.C. Community Newspaper Association, GREY Advertising, Dow Jones Newswires, Greensboro News & Record, Gannett, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Capstrat and The St. Petersburg Times.

Employers continue to seek students who can do internships for course credit. Career services director Jay Eubank oversaw “JOMC 394, Mass Communication Practicum” through which students received academic credit for internships at outlets ranging from CBS News to The Tennis Channel to National Geographic Adventure to The Lumina News in Wrightsville Beach, N.C. JOMC 394 is now offered during summer school, in addition to the fall and spring semesters.

Other outlets where students interned included Capstrat, French/West/Vaughan, WUNC-FM, WTVD-TV, McKinney, USAToday.com, washingtonpost.com, Cosmopolitan, Congressional Quarterly, Ketchum, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Comedy Central.

The most recent statistics collected from University Career Services show that 2007 graduates from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication had one of the best percentages of students reporting having secured a full-time position. The survey showed that 71.3 percent reported having a full-time position in their career field (compared to 64.3 percent University-wide). An additional 18.8 percent reported they were pursuing additional education, such as law school, graduate school or advertising portfolio school. In total, 90.1 percent of school graduates either had full-time positions or were pursuing further education.

Graduates from the 2008 class are working at places such as Ketchum; Capstrat; Bloomberg; McKinney; Reuters; MLB.com and CNN.

Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education The Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation chose the school to join 11 other top journalism schools for a three-year initiative to adapt journalism education to the challenges of a struggling news industry.

With an initial $250,000 grant, the initiative encourages experimental journalism projects, curriculum enhancement and collaboration with other academic disciplines and institutions inside and outside of the U.S. The school has established partnerships with universities in Mexico, China, Spain and France. The initiative strengthens those connections and helps create new ties with universities in Africa, South America, England and other regions.

The initiative also supports the school’s year-long project to document the growing Latino population in North Carolina, Carolina del Norte.

The school is expanding undergraduate research through the 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 inter-

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disciplinary programs in media law and policy, and digital media economics.

These interdisciplinary and international programs will be complemented by Carolina’s participation in News21, an experimental, online news incubator. With supplementary funding, News21 gives students from the partner schools the opportunity to undertake national reporting projects that seek to change the media landscape with innovative approaches to creating and distributing news.

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.

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r )FMQFE DSFBUF QMBO BENJOJTUFS BOE UFBDI at the seventh annual North Carolina Newspaper Academy, a daylong, mid-career workshop hosted each spring by the school and co-sponsored by the NCPA. r *OJUJBUFE BOE DPPSEJOBUFE B Ä—STU FWFS exchange and collaboration between the school and the journalism program at N.C. Central University, Durham high schools and inner-city revitalization officials from the City of Durham to begin laying the groundwork for a neighborhood community newspaper for Northeast Central Durham to be staffed primarily by youth from the area.

Carolina del Norte In June 2008, the school launched a large-scale media project focusing on the implications of a growing Latino population in North Carolina.

Carolina del Norte is a yearlong initiative that involves students, faculty and staff from all programs within the school. The centerpiece of the project is a Web site at cdn.jomc.unc.edu

WHAT

Since 2001, the Carolina Community Media Project has worked to strengthen the state’s 192 community newspapers in the belief that strong papers make for strong communities.

team that came to the aid of a small newspaper in crisis in fall 2007. Community journalism students provided 19 weeks of content for the Spring Hope Enterprise, a community paper one hour east of the UNC campus, while its longtime editor-publisher was recovering from double hip replacement surgery. The effort earned Lauterer the Faculty Engaged Scholars award from the Carolina Center for Public Service.

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Carolina Community Media Project

where student-produced content is freely available to N.C. media outlets for republication.

Changing demographics is a topic of much discussion in the state and the nation. The issues are complex, and many newspapers struggle to find the resources to cover them adequately.

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“We are well positioned with resources and expertise at the school, and we hope this will be a valuable public service to the state’s journalists and the communities they serve,” said Jean Folkerts, dean of the school. “We are creating robust, innovative coverage of this broad topic and demonstrating how an integrated approach to media and communications can operate.”

Student work – including feature stories, photography and multimedia documentaries – will be added to the site on an ongoing basis through spring 2009. The stories available include features about farming, Latino banking and Latino housing. One multimedia piece covers the cultural tradition known as Quince Años, which is a celebration for Latinas turning 15 years old. Another multimedia production tells the story of Jorge Martinez who leaves behind his family in Mexico to work in North Carolina.

WHAT

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Carolina News Studio

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Stories have been featured in publications including the Independent Weekly, the Asheville Citizen-Times, the Garner News and the Fuquay-Varina Independent.

The Carolina News Studio was opened in Carroll Hall in March 2008. The 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.

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Top: Carolina del Norte documents Latinos in North Carolina.

Middle and bottom: Melissa Sowry, studio coordinator for the Carolina News Studio, prepares Phil Meyer for an interview with the BBC.

The state-of-the-art studio allows for live and pre-recorded interviews utilizing highdefinition cameras. An adjacent control room handles technical operations for interviews in the studio.

The studio is staffed by a combination of school and University Relations personnel with decades of experience in live and taped interviews. In addition to overseeing studio interviews, the staff shoot interview subjects

and supporting b-roll. A Final Cut Pro editing suite complements the studio’s operations.

Prior to the studio’s opening, national broadcasters’ access to Carolina’s experts was limited by the lack of a studio in Chapel Hill and the delay and inconvenience of traveling to studios in Raleigh and Durham.

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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. Through the studio, the school’s faculty have appeared on ABC, FOX, the BBC, French television and Al-Jazeera, among other major broadcast organizations.

Other University experts are providing insights on issues including domestic policy, global affairs and public health.

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ture, and the University Libraries will host an exhibit in Wilson Library of text, photographs and artifacts that chronicle journalism history at Carolina.

The school will commemorate 100 years of journalism education at Carolina with special events during 2009 and 2010.

The school is developing a Carolina journalism centennial Web site that will archive papers, photographs and memorabilia relating to journalism education at Carolina.

Tom Bowers, who retired from the school in 2006, has written a history of the school based on his scouring of the University’s archives and interviews with alumni, faculty and administrators. He uncovered the stories that trace Carolina journalism’s rise to prominence from a single course taught by Edward Kidder Graham in 1909 in the Department of English.

Horace Carter, a 1943 graduate of the school and a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor, made a $25,000 gift to the school enabling Bowers’ history to be published.

The centennial observance will begin in fall 2009, 100 years after the first journalism course was taught at Carolina. Bowers will deliver the Gladys Hall Coates University History Lec-

Alumni and friends who have materials or stories to share are encouraged to contact Bowers at tbowers@email.unc.edu.

Center for Media Law and Policy The UNC 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 Chapel Hill. The center supports both schools’ efforts to train students in the complex relationship between mass communication, law and policy. The center also provides

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The studio will help to retain top-grade faculty who consider news coverage critical to their educational efforts and to their competition for grant funding. It also will help position and brand the school and University and help recruitment of faculty, staff and students.

Communications The school is refining its communications tools to reach a growing audience of students, faculty, alumni, donors, N.C. citizens, peer institutions, journalists and media professionals.

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WHAT

L-R: Larry Noble, Bill Marshall, Brad Smith participate in a political advertising debate sponsored by the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy.

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a national forum for debate on media law and policy. The schools are forming an advisory board for the center.

The center is a resource for media and legal professionals and scholars and a source for innovative solutions to a broad range of media law problems including those raised as traditional legal standards and are challenged by technological changes in the dissemination of news, information and entertainment. Issues the center will address include intellectual property, media consolidation, national security, indecency, privacy, advertising and reporter’s privilege.

During fall 2008, the center presented two events with the support of Lincoln Financial.

On Sept. 15, “Money, Politics and the First Amendment: A Debate on Special Interest Advertising in Elections” featured nationally prominent experts – Bradley Smith, professor at the Capital University School of Law and former chairman of the Federal Elections Commission, and Larry Noble, who served as FEC general counsel from 1987 to 2000. William Marshall, UNC law professor and former White House deputy counsel, moderated. On Sept. 24, Toni Locy, the Freedom of the Press Award winner and former USA Today reporter who refused to reveal her sources for stories written about the 2001 anthrax attacks, delivered the lecture “Committing Journalism: Contempt for Reporters in Post-9/11 America.”

The center also welcomed Miklos Haraszti, the Hungarian writer, journalist and human rights activist who is the Representative on Freedom of the Media for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Haraszti’s lecture was titled “Media Freedom East and West: As Seen By the OSCE’s Media Freedom Watchdog.”

Through the first 10 months of 2008, visits to the school’s Web site at jomc.unc.edu increased by 46 percent over the previous year. Visitors to the site find general school information, the latest school news and events, award-winning multimedia documentaries, popular and influential faculty blogs, access to iTunes video and podcasts of student news broadcasts and special events, social networking functions for students and alumni, online giving options, and special features like the Carolina del Norte project documenting Latinos in North Carolina.

In addition to Web site enhancements, the school is reaching alumni and friends through personal contacts, receptions, a monthly enewsletter, the twice-yearly Carolina Communicator magazine and The Lead annual report.

The school’s communications office produces a variety of print and electronic advertising and marketing materials year round and works to raise the school’s national profile by positioning the school’s faculty as expert sources for print, broadcast and online journalists. Since the Carolina News Studio opened in Carroll Hall in spring 2008, more than 35 television and radio interviews with University faculty experts have been transmitted to major networks including ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, CNN, Bloomberg and NPR. The studio has reached international audiences through interviews with the BBC, French television and Al-Jazeera.

The school has developed a curriculum that sets a new course for journalism and mass communication education in the dynamic media environment of our time.

The new curriculum becomes effective in fall 2009. It is the product of intensive research and discussion with students, faculty, alumni, academic peers and professionals working today in the journalism and communication industries.

The school is collapsing five “sequences” – news-editorial, public relations, advertising, electronic communication and visual communication – into two tracks that will prepare students for careers in journalism or strategic communication.

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.

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 curriculum recognizes that today’s students need to master the core principles of journalism education while developing the skills and perspectives critical to success in a changing industry that demands its professionals communicate across various media platforms.

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.

Core courses that all students must take are news writing, ethics and law. Students will choose to focus on journalism or strategic communication – and then specialize within those areas. Students also will choose an immersion area in which they can develop more expertise.

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 The school’s unique, graduate-level Certificate in Technology and Communication marked its fifth anniversary in 2008. The program – which is taught completely online – offers five courses exploring new media: JOMC 710 – “Computing Concepts and Issues: Power Tools for the Mind” JOMC 711 – “Writing for Digital Media” JOMC 712 – “Visual Communication and Web Design” JOMC 713 – “Global Impact of New Communication Technologies” JOMC 714 – “Database and Web Research: Strategies for Finding Information Online” Students completing any four of the five classes earn a certificate. Forty-one students have earned the certificate to date. An academic certificate is comprised of a series of postbaccalaureate courses that enables a student to explore a specific area of study. Like a master’s or doctoral degree, a certificate is offered by a host academic department, is approved by UNC-Chapel Hill’s Graduate School and is related to an academic area of study.

The program targets working professionals who can’t take time away from work or family to return to campus. “The certificate program was a fantastic way for me to take master’s level classes without leaving my job or changing my work schedule,” said Leslie Wilkinson, assistant design director at The Los Angeles Times, who graduated from the school in 1999 and completed the certificate in 2007. “The professors and staff are top notch and constantly making improvements to the curriculum and the program.”

The school recently received a grant from UNC General Administration to explore offering a full master’s degree online. More information on the certificate program is at jomc.unc.edu/de.

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Curriculum

Students may further specialize by completing the requirements for a certificate in sports communication or business journalism or by taking additional electives in any specialization.

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A group of loyal alumni and supporters in New York City, led by board of advisers chair, Ed Vick, are coordinating efforts to elevate the reputation of the school specifically within the New York media market.

Diversity The school is committed to diversity in fulfilling its teaching, research and service missions to students and to the citizens of North Carolina. Diversity enhances the educational experience for our students, helping to build their skills on a stronger foundation of accuracy, clarity, fairness and ethics.

The school’s faculty is constantly engaged in identifying opportunities to expand the school’s diversity initiatives. This is true in the courses taught, guest speakers invited or the professional development education offered.

Alumni and friends play an important role by supporting programs and scholarships that encourage diverse perspectives in the school.

WHAT

In January 2008, assistant professor Queenie Byars joined the faculty to teach public relations courses, coordinate the school’s diversity

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initiatives and work with the University’s Diversity and Multicultural Affairs office.

Byars’ outreach in 2008 has included recruiting prospective graduate students at the 2008 Unity Conference for journalists of color in Chicago and the Historically Black College Media Conference in Baltimore.

For information on Carolina’s Diversity Plan and the 2007-08 Diversity Plan Report visit www.unc.edu/diversity.

Electronic Communication The past year has been another successful one for the school’s electronic communication students and faculty.

Students continue to excel in regional and national competitions. For the second time in three years, the school won the Hearst Intercollegiate Broadcast News Championship, beating Syracuse University by two points. Walter Storholt (first in radio hard news) and Jen Carpenter (first in TV hard news) led the way for Carolina. For the second year in a row, Storholt advanced to the finals in San Francisco, where he took third place in the individual national championship. Storholt also won the Society of Professional Journalists competition in the radio reporting category, and Carpenter took top honors for television news photography. UNC had three other national finalists in SPJ competition.

The TV news program “Carolina Week” took top honors in the National Broadcasting Society and the Collegiate Broadcasters Inc. competitions, and won two Emmys from the National

Top: Park Fellow master’s student Tiffany White and assistant professor Queenie Byars at a conference in Baltimore.

Bottom: Electronic communication students and faculty at work on a “Carolina Week” broadcast.

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The radio program “Carolina Connection” was also recognized as best in the country by those two organizations. NBS also voted carolinaweek.org the top campus media Web site in the nation.

Collectively, the TV program, the radio program and individual students have accounted for more than 50 awards in the past year.

Seventeen students took part in ESPNU’s inaugural edition of Campus Connection, working as crew members for the telecast of a game between UNC and UNC-Asheville.

Sara Moore produced the program, and four students worked in on-air roles.

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ABC News selected Carolina as one of five 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.” Carolina is the headquarters of the new ABC online feature, “Wide World of College Sports.”

Students from the school’s “Carolina Week” newscast joined the ESPN production team to cover the nationally televised Jan. 9 men’s basketball game between UNC and UNCAsheville at the Smith Center in Chapel Hill.

These Carolina journalism students were the first to collaborate with ESPNU on its Campus Connection program that employs students in game broadcasts.

Students served in a variety of production roles both on and off camera, including game producer, play-by-play announcer, sideline reporter and camera operator.

The initiative incorporates student-generated content appearing across different ESPN platforms, including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and “ESPN The Magazine.”

Katie Miller (top) reports, and Josh Bernstein and Bethany Tuggle (bottom) help film the January 2008 UNC men’s basketball game against UNC-Asheville.

Graduate Program Six doctoral and 21 master’s students have graduated from the school’s graduate program since December 2007.

Doctoral graduates accepted professorships at institutions including the University of Denver, Fresno State University, West Virginia University, Idaho State University, University of Miami and East Carolina University. One doctoral graduate, Terri Bailey, took a one-year appointment on the school’s faculty.

Students graduating from the master’s program have taken jobs at organizations including Voice of America, National Public Radio affiliate WAMU, RTI International, Elon University and Duke University.

Other students in the program completed internships with organizations and newspapers that include Bloomberg News, China Inter-

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The school is in the midst of converting field and editing equipment to high definition, with conversion of the broadcast studio slated for next summer. One of the primary goals for the coming year is to make the TV news program “Carolina Week” available statewide. It’s now available through Time Warner Cable to a 16-county area in north central North Carolina.

net Information Center covering the Beijing Olympics, the Chapel Hill News and the Carolina Alumni Review, among others.

The first class of joint degree students in the M.A./J.D. program began taking courses in the J-school.

The graduate program welcomed 35 new students in fall 2008, up from 31 the previous year.

In addition to students from across the U.S., international students from Pakistan, Romania, Taiwan and South Korea, among others, were part of this year’s incoming class.

Many graduate students receive funding from various scholarships and fellowships that include the Roy H. Park Fellowships, the Peter DeWitt Pruden Jr. and Phyllis Harrill Stancill Pruden Fellowship, the Pfizer Minority Medical Journalism Scholarship, the Graduate Dean’s Research Assistantship, and the Richard Cole Eminent Professor graduate assistantship.

The 12th class of Roy H. Park Fellows entered the school in fall 2008. The Triad Foundation generously funds the Park Fellowships, given to eight entering doctoral students and 14 entering master’s students each year.

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Analog television will give way to digital signals on Feb. 17, 2009. The HDTV standard begins. Television stations, networks and cable operators are moving to high definition; and the school is in stride with the industry.

The school’s job is to prepare every student for the professional world they’re entering. So cameras, control rooms, editing suites, monitors and projectors in the school are being converted to HD at a cost of nearly $2 million. State funds began the conversion process, but significant private funding is needed to give the school the most technologically relevant equipment at any journalism school in the nation – and that is the school’s goal.

To maintain leadership in broadcast education, it is absolutely essential for the school to teach students to report and produce newscasts in the digital high definition format. The school doesn’t intend to send students out with degrees if they aren’t conversant with the latest industry standards.

The school’s students and faculty have earned the support. The broadcast journalism program’s “Carolina Week” is recognized as one of the finest student newscasts in the country.

UNC was awarded first place in broadcast journalism in the Heart Journalism Awards, known as the Pulitzers of college journalism.

The school’s development office is eager to discuss the conversion, provide additional information, give tours of the facility and answer questions.

Please contact Speed Hallman, associate dean for development and alumni affairs, at 919.962.9467 or speed_hallman@unc.edu.

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.

As of 2008, ibiblio hosts more than 2,500 collections – more than 13 terabytes of data, which is up from eight terabytes of data in 2006. ibiblio serves more than 16 million requests per day.

New collaborations for ibiblio include INTRAHealth, open source for public health, and Open Library and Open Content Alliance, which aim to digitize and make downloadable every book that is in the public domain.

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 nonprofits in North Carolina and worldwide; video documentaries of folk practice; educational sites and more. ibiblio also provides stable, continuous online streaming for six N.C.-based nonprofit radio stations, including UNC’s WXYC 89.3 FM. In 2008, ibiblio participated in the organization and running of numerous events related to podcasting, blogging, copyright issues, entrepreneurship, emerging media technologies, library collections of the future, the open source movement and more.

Information Technology and Computing Services The school’s computing services group has been active in the past year improving the technical infrastructure for teaching, learning and research.

The school is upgrading classroom technology throughout Carroll Hall. Two seminar rooms were redone in the spring to feature Mac mini computers connected to 52-inch LCD high definition televisions. Two new classrooms being constructed this year also will employ this display technology. Existing classrooms are getting new, brighter, higher resolution projectors and simpler control systems installed in the coming year.

Thornburg, who himself spent a decade leading online newsrooms in Washington, D.C., interviewed each guest and then opened the floor for students and faculty to ask questions.

Guests in the series represented online news organizations including CNN.com, Yahoo News, AOL Money & Finance, MSNBC, NYTimes.com, Gannett, the Greensboro News & Record and USA Today, among others.

Thornburg continued the series in his “Online News Writing and Editing” course during fall 2008, where students have weeklong online discussions with professionals from online newsrooms from the Star-News in Wilmington, N.C., to NowPublic.com in Vancouver.

To accommodate class demands for larger files associated with audio, video and photos, the school’s online storage space has been quadrupled to six terabytes. In addition, the school is deploying its first video server, with 40 terabytes of storage and a fiber-connected infrastructure for high definition video editing and playback.

Inside the Future of News During spring 2008, assistant professor Ryan Thornburg hosted “Inside the Future of News,” weekly videoconferences featuring professionals from America’s leading online newsrooms.

With the news industry increasingly focused online, the program introduced Carolina journalism students to the changes and sorted myth from reality to give students a leg up in future job searches.

Interdisciplinary Health Communication The Interdisciplinary Health Communication (IHC) center, based in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, continued to develop ties with the School of Public Health, School of Information and Library Science, School of Nursing, School of Medicine and the Department of Psychology in the past year.

The IHC pioneers innovative approaches to health communication through graduate education, local and global outreach, and research.

Priority research areas include: e-health/health informatics, message design and effects, and medical decision making.

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The school has been active in developing itunes.unc.edu, a partnership with Apple’s iTunes to provide free audio and video of the school’s courses, lectures, seminars and the “Carolina Week” newscast via iTunes.

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Jay Almers, who joined the school in February as an educational Web content designer and developer, is working to launch a new site for the school in 2009. He has improved the school’s blog offerings and engineered the Carolina del Norte Web site at cdn.jomc.unc.edu that supports the school’s yearlong project documenting the implications of a growing Latino population in North Carolina.

Certificate Program; both received a master’s of public health in the Department of Nutrition. r &OSPMMFE ƥƥ BEEJUJPOBM NBTUFS T BOE EPDUPSBM students, including seven from the J-school, in the IHC certificate program. The core course for the certificate, “JOMC/HBHE 825: IHC Seminar,” included 18 students in fall semester 2007 and 24 in fall 2008. The class has attracted graduate students from five different departments and schools across the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. r *O UIF TQSJOH +FTTJDB )VHIFT )#)& MPH and J-school undergrad) won the first place award in the Population and Prevention Sciences Division at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center’s annual retreat. Her paper on how parents are learning about the HPV vaccine has been accepted in “Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.”

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r 4VDDFTTGVMMZ SFDPNNFOEFE UIBU i"O *OUFSdisciplinary Health Communications Center to Benefit North Carolina” be included in the “Carolina’s Response to UNC Tomorrow” report released in May 2008. Led by UNC President Erskine Bowles, this is an effort to address the most pressing needs in the state in the next 20 years.

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r *ODSFBTFE JOUFSBDUJPO XJUI TDIPMBST BU 35* Duke University and North Carolina Central University to expand the capacity for health communication research at UNC. Twentyfive scholars at UNC, RTI, NCCU and Duke are affiliated with the IHC center. r 1SPNPUFE IFBUI DPNNVOJDBUJPO UPQJDT and speakers for the Mary Junck Research Colloquium series. These weekly seminars are widely advertised, open to IHC affiliated scholars, and have attracted an average 20-30 participants. Key health communicationrelated presentations have included, Jay Bernhardt of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Richard Petty from Ohio State University, Aran Vishwanath from SUNY-Buffalo, and Annie Lang from Indiana University.

iTunes U Carolina’s partnership with Apple’s iTunes launched in July 2008 at itunes.unc.edu, allowing 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 school’s iTunes offerings include “Carolina Week” 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 In July 2008, the school launched J-link, the school’s online social network. More than 3,600 students and alumni are now registered on the site, 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 site can 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. Dual Degree Program The school’s M.A./J.D. dual degree program with the UNC School of Law accepted its first three students in fall 2007. Those students began their coursework in the journalism school in fall 2008. Among those students, one received a Roy H. Park Fellowship from the school and another received the Beverly Cooper Moore Scholarship from the UNC Graduate School. A fourth graduate student in the school is seeking both master’s and law degrees but is enrolled in the Duke University School of Law.

Future plans include seeking sources of funding for scholarships for dual degree students and incorporating the dual degree program into the activities and functions of the Center for Media Law and Policy.

Medical and Science Journalism Program The Medical Journalism Program was renamed the Medical and Science Journalism Program

in 2008 to reflect the expanded curriculum and focus of the two-year program.

Four medical and science journalism students graduated, the largest class ever for the program, in May 2008.

Program director Tom Linden and his students completed a television documentary “Environmental Heroes” in 2008 with support from Pfizer Inc. The documentary was begun in fall 2007 by Linden’s “Science Documentary Television” course. The half-hour program profiles three North Carolinians who have made a difference in protecting the environment.

Twelve of Linden’s students, two independent television producers, two videographers and one multimedia student collaborated on the project. Linden commissioned Chris Frank, a member of the Red Clay Ramblers, to produce the score. The program has been submitted to

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Dual degree students complete their first year of law school studies upon entering the program and then begin taking courses in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication during their second year. The M.A./J.D. program is the only dual degree offered by the journalism school and one of nine dual degree programs offered by the law school.

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The school’s dual degree program allows students to earn a master’s degree in mass communication and a J.D. in law in approximately four years instead of the five years it would take for students to earn both degrees if pursued separately. Associate professor Michael Hoefges coordinates the program and advises dual degree students along with the law school’s associate dean Laura Gassaway.

Mentoring The school’s career mentoring program is a networking opportunity that matches students with alumni professionals working in the journalism and communication fields. Career mentors volunteer their time to be a resource for students and provide a valuable connection to the professional world.

Students use the mentoring program to learn about the career fields they hope to pursue after graduation. Many secure jobs and internships with the help of their mentor.

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Top: Senior Elizabeth Edmonds with Dean Jean Folkerts during the fall 2008 networking trip to New York.

Bottom: Junior Kassie Engroff, Robert Gray of FOX Business Network, junior Abbey Doran and senior Elizabeth Edmonds during the fall break trip to New York.

a cable network for possible distribution, and local television outlets are interested in airing the documentary.

Linden moderated a panel on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act for an executive education workshop in February 2008 at the school. His session focused on the balance between patient privacy and the media’s right to know.

Pfizer continued support this year for its Minority Medical Journalism Scholarship that, in 2009, will fund the program’s three international students, Prashant Nair and Niveditha Ravi from India and Shan Wei Yeo from Singapore.

In 2007-2008, approximately 100 students and alumni participated in the career mentoring program. The school’s mentors work in a variety of fields including journalism, television, advertising, marketing, public relations and government. Mentors have worked for organizations including Crispin, Porter + Bogusky, Digitas, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Lenovo, Gibbs and Soell, ABC, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, Capstrat and Bloomberg, among others.

The mentoring program is strengthened by the school’s new online social networking site, J-link. With J-link, alumni can opt-in to become career mentors, and current students can search the database and contact a potential mentor directly.

The school takes 10 students each semester to a different city to gain insight into job markets in major metropolitan centers. Students visit with professionals in their offices and attend a reception where they make valuable personal connections with school alumni.

In 2008, with the support of gifts from alumni Joe Nelson and Catherine Reuhl, the school took students to Atlanta and New York City.

In Atlanta, students visited alumni at CNN, Coca-Cola, Home Depot, Atlanta Motor Speedway, UPS, the Cartoon Network, Turner and TNT/TBS. The school hosted a reception at the World of Coke.

In New York City, students met with alumni at MSNBC, ABC News, The New York Times, MTV, Comedy Central, Ketchum Public Relations, BBDO, Google, Saatchi & Saatchi and Jack Morton Worldwide, among others. A reception was held at The New York Times headquarters.

Students who participate in the mentoring trips pay $300 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, the school is seeking funds to remove any financial obstacle for students who wish to take advantage of these trips.

N.C. Halls of Fame In 2008, the N.C. Journalism Hall of Fame inducted Phil Meyer, revered journalist and scholar, and James Davis the “father of journalism in North Carolina.”

Meyer retired this year as the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s Knight Chair in Journalism. James Davis, who became the state’s first printer in 1749, received the honor posthumously.

state’s first book, newspaper and magazine. In his 33 years as a public printer, he printed at least 100 titles. A General Assembly member, a county sheriff, justice of the peace and commissioner of the Port of New Bern, Davis was appointed by Ben Franklin to open the state’s first post office in 1755.

Susan Fowler Credle was awarded the inaugural Next Generation Leadership Award, given by the N.C. Halls of Fame to an individual that represents the next generation of leadership in their field.

Credle, a 1985 graduate of the school, has been a part of award-winning creative teams that worked with clients such as M&M’s, AT&T, Pepsi, FedEx, Bank of America and Visa. She

Advertising luminary Susan Fowler Credle, executive vice president and executive creative director at the BBDO agency in New York, received the Next Generation Leadership Award.

The N.C. Journalism, Public Relations and Advertising Halls of Fame are all based in the school. The Halls recognize individuals who have made outstanding, career-long contributions to their fields. Honorees must be native North Carolinians, or must have made a significant contribution to the state.

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Meyer joined the journalism school in 1981 after an award-winning career as a reporter and researcher working at the Miami Herald and the Detroit Free Press, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize as part of the newspaper’s staff.

He earned a master’s degree in political science from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1958. His book, “Precision Journalism,” published in 1973 is listed by Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly as one of the 35 significant journalism and mass communication books of the 20th century. He also wrote “The Vanishing Newspaper” in 1994, sounding a warning about the decline in daily newspaper readers, and he proposed a business model for preserving the industry’s viability amidst the changes in media technology.

Top: Halls of Fame ceremony at the Carolina Inn. Bottom: Virginia Pou Doughton with Dean Folkerts at the Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Doughton is a descendant of James Davis, the state’s first printer.

to enrich the students’ education. Last year students met with media professionals from the Associated Press, The Washington Post, Sports Illustrated and National Geographic, among other outlets.

Graduates in 2008 accepted jobs and internships at a variety of print and online outlets, including the Bloomberg News Service, The Charlotte Observer, The Wake Weekly, the Arizona Republic, The News-Star (Monroe, La.), USA Today.com, Gulfshore Life magazine, MLB. com, The Winchester (Va.) Star, The Hartford Courant, Newsday and Portfolio magazine.

Observatory on Corporate Reputation Susan Fowler Credle accepts the Next Generation Leadership Award from Dean Folkerts.

sits on the Creative Review Committee of the Ad Council. In 2004, she was inducted into the American Advertising Federation’s Advertising Hall of Achievement, an industry award for outstanding advertising professionals age 40 and under.

The new members bring total membership to 116 in journalism, 18 in advertising and 21 in public relations.

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The news-editorial curriculum is providing new ways for students to experience the changing world of journalism. Students write and produce podcasts for the online CarrboroCommons.org. They learn to blog in political reporting and opinion-writing classes, and they produce prototype magazines in a magazine writing and editing class.

At the same time that the school’s 150 newseditorial students learn the basics of reporting, writing and editing, they learn how to apply those skills in course segments devoted to the online world, learning about such things as search-engine-optimized headlines.

The news-editorial program continues to reach out to professionals with such activities as the summer Institute for Midcareer Copy Editors.

Guest speakers, including both seasoned professionals and recent graduates, continue

Craig Carroll, assistant professor of public relations in the school, works to give public relations students, professionals and scholars potent tools and skills to study corporate reputation.

This year, he formed the Observatory on Corporate Reputation (OCR) at the school.

With today’s 24-hour news cycle, consumer choice and Internet information overload, the reputation and image of businesses are more important than ever to consumers, shareholders and government.

The OCR is monitoring the image of 26 N.C.-based businesses and nonprofits through analysis of newspaper articles and public relations campaigns. Students are cataloging information and creating a database for the OCR’s research into corporate reputation. The companies being tracked are 150 Fortune 1000 companies based in the state, including Lenovo and GlaxoSmithKline.

Carroll offered the OCR’s first undergraduate research class in fall 2008.

Park Library January 2008 marked the 18th year of the launch of the school’s library and the ninth year of its reincarnation as the Park Library. Among the more than 100 accredited journalism and mass communication educational programs in the U.S., the school is one of only 15 that support fully staffed and equipped in-unit libraries or research centers.

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Nearly 15 percent of its books were not listed in the UNC Online catalog until recently.

These holdings are being cataloged, bringing the library’s total number of book titles listed online to more than 10,000.

media/mass communication databases, writing literature reviews and book reviews, exploring historical research materials and discovering resources for media metrics. r $PMMBCPSBUFE XJUI SFUJSFE GBDVMUZ BOE administrator Tom Bowers researching the school’s history in preparation for its centennial celebration in 2009. r $PMMBCPSBUFE XJUI UIF -FWJOF .VTFVN PG UIF New South to bring a special exhibit, “Comic Stripped,” to the school in early 2009. r #BSCBSB 4FNPODIF BOOPVODFE UIBU TIF will retire in February 2009. She has been school librarian since 1990 and was the news research librarian at the Durham Herald-Sun for 13 years before joining the school. She is the recipient of numerous awards and author of several articles on news librarianship.

r /FHPUJBUFE XJUI WFOEPST UP BEE OFX database subscriptions to the Park Library, including Chicago Manual of Style, CourtPort, Hotchalk (NBC archives), InformaWorld (Taylor & Francis publications), NAD/CARU/NARB Online Case Archive and Newspaper Direct’s “Press Display.” For a complete list of the library’s e-resources, visit parklibrary.jomc. unc.edu/databases.html. r -BVODIFE CBS DPEJOH PG CPPL DPMMFDUJPO UP facilitate in-house use by school faculty and students as well as to support the library’s inaugural participation in a new campuswide document delivery system.

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r 4FSJBM TVCTDSJQUJPOT m KPVSOBMT USBEF publications and newspaper subscriptions – for the Park Library topped 300 in 2008. r 1SFQBSFE B CJCMJPHSBQIZ PG QSJOU BOE 8FC resources on Eastern Europe and Russia for distribution to a group of North Carolina K-12 media and technology specialists.

The workshop was co-sponsored by World View, UNC Libraries, UNC Center for European Studies, UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian & East European Studies, and The European Union Center of Excellence.

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Professional Education The school’s professional education program tackled a range of issues at more than a dozen seminars and workshops in 2008.

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“Understanding HIPAA: A Seminar on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and Its Effect on News Coverage” brought together journalists, public information officers and health providers to discuss how to protect patient privacy while reporting the news. A two-day symposium in honor of retiring Knight Chair Philip Meyer explored the Internet’s impact on journalism education and existing theories of mass communication. In May, the school offered its popular weeklong multimedia bootcamp, which trains journalists to use the latest techniques in multimedia journalism. The school also co-hosted the seventh annual Newspaper Academy with the North Carolina Press Association, which annually draws more than 150 reporters, editors and photographers from around the state.

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In August, the school launched a new program aimed at providing inspiration and coaching for students interested in investigative reporting. The program, “Holding Power Accountable,” brought together nine students and six journalists and faculty members at a weekend retreat on Oak Island, N.C., a beach community south of Wilmington. Speakers included reporters Joseph Neff and Marti Maguire of The News & Observer and Alan Judd of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution offering tips for interviewing, developing sources and keeping track of research.

For the third year in a row, the school participated in the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists, a U.S. State Department initiative.

The school offered several days of training to 25 journalists from north Africa and the Middle East, focusing on the rights and responsibilities of a free press in a democracy.

Audio and video from several programs is now available for free download at itunes.unc.edu.

Program on Public Life The Program on Public Life, housed in the school, spent the 2007-2008 year focusing on documenting demographic, social and

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economic trends in North Carolina, and more specifically in the Research Triangle region.

With funding from the Triangle Community Foundation, the program has provided research and moderated civic discussions to prepare the way for the foundation’s Triangle Gives Back initiative, a three-year effort to examine philanthropy and to raise awareness of citizens of how investing time and talent, as well as money, improves their communities through strengthening the nonprofit sector.

The Program on Public Life organized and hosted the Leadership Seminar for Southern Legislators, which took place in the Freedom Forum Conference Center. Twenty-five legislators from seven states attended – the largest attendance in the nine years of this seminar.

Faculty participants came from departments of history, public policy and sociology, and schools of business, social work, and journalism and mass communication.

The program organized and hosted the North Carolina Editorial Writers Roundtable. Gov. Mike Easley delivered the major address, and six major candidates for governor – two Democrats and four Republicans – met with the editorial writers in the Freedom Forum Conference Center.

Former Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, at the invitation of program director Ferrel Guillory, took part in the Carolina Seminar on Coastalization. Blanco discussed lessons from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The coastalization seminars resulted from a collaboration of the Program on Public Life and N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

Public Relations Associate professor Lois Boynton assumed the role of head of the public relations program, replacing Dulcie Straughan, who took over as senior associate dean of the school after 12 years leading the program.

Queenie Byars joined the faculty in January 2008 as assistant professor in public relations and the school’s diversity officer. She also will co-advise the Carolina Association of Black Journalists chapter.

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Undergraduate and graduate students raked in numerous awards in 2007-2008. Heather Forster was runner-up in the “PR Week” Student of the Year competition. Terri Bailey received a UNC Tanner award that honors outstanding graduate student teachers and took second place in the AEJMC Promising Professors awards. For the second year in a row, public relations students earned top honors in the Arthur W. Page Society Case Study Competition.

Courtney Woo, first-year Park Fellow master’s student, was the grand prize winner and Greg Efthimiou took top honors in the communication schools category.

Raising the Ante Symposium The school convened 31 top professionals and scholars in March for a symposium – “Raising the Ante: The Internet’s Impact on Journalism Education and Existing Theories of Mass Communication” – to examine how journalism must adapt for the future and how best to study the new media landscape. The gathering was held in honor of Phil Meyer, the school’s Knight Chair in Journalism, who retired in 2008.

J. Walker Smith, president of Yankelovich, a consumer trend research agency, moderated the two-day symposium.

Many attendees agreed that news is no longer a passive activity in which the audience only reads. News has become an experience, and “users” interact with the content in a new media that continues to evolve rapidly.

“The only way the industry is going to find out how to make money with journalism or journalism-related things is to keep experimenting, to keep trying lots of things, to increase its rate of failure,” said Meyer.

Karen Jurgensen, former editor of USA Today, called the experience cathartic as the discussion aimed to save journalism.

Intermingled with the scholarly discourse, participants also shared their personal memories of Meyer.

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Dougall and advertising faculty member Heidi Hennink-Kaminski are working with the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome to develop a statewide media campaign to address social norms about shaking and reinforce messages through caregivers, family and friends.

Their work is part of a $7 million statewide, interdisciplinary grant.

“Raising the Ante” convened in Carroll Hall’s Freedom Forum Conference Center.

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Faculty presence in the academy expanded with the election of Elizabeth Dougall to the AEJMC Research Committee and Craig Carroll as head of ICA’s Public Relations Division.

sociate professor Paul Jones have been invited to serve as proposal reviewers for the Knight News Challenge and HASTAC/MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition, respectively.

Assistant professor Elizabeth Dougall was named to the Research Committee of the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication, and Richard Cole Eminent Professor Daniel Riffe serves as the editor of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.

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Pamela Shoemaker of Syracuse University during the “Raising the Ante” symposium.

Live bloggers covered the symposium. For more information or to continue the discussion, visit jomc.unc.edu/raisingtheante. The entire symposium can be found at itunes.unc.edu.

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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.

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Over the past year, there has been tremendous growth in grant submissions from the school.

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 now underway in many of these areas, and faculty continue to discuss ideas to expand them and launch new projects. The results of these projects are distributed rapidly in both academic and general venues. Numerous students and faculty from the school publish in scholarly journals and publications at regional and national conferences, and share their findings and observations in newspaper articles and blog posts.

Faculty also are expanding their administrative roles in promoting communication research. Assistant professor Ryan Thornburg and clinical as-

The N.C. Scholastic Media Association, based in the school, is the statewide organization that promotes excellence in scholastic journalism and encourages respect for freedom of the press. NCSMA also promotes professional growth of journalism teachers and speaks for scholastic media in matters of curriculum and instruction that affect journalism education in the state. Director Monica Hill was appointed this year to the boards of the National Scholastic Press Association and the N.C. Open Government Coalition.

The annual NCSMA summer institute is a residential workshop that provides four days of instruction in yearbook, newspaper, broadcast, literary magazine, design, advising and photography for N.C. students and teachers.

NCSMA held its fall 2008 regional workshops in Asheville, Boone, Chapel Hill, Greenville, Charlotte and Greensboro.

The Daily Tar Heel gave NCSMA $25,000 to create two $625 endowed scholarships for high school newspaper journalism students at the summer institute each year. The DTH scholarships complement scholarships endowed by Don Curtis of Curtis Media Group, which have been awarded since 2002 to two TV news students at the institute.

NCSMA also offers summer graduate-level courses in the school: “Teaching Broadcast Journalism in the Secondary School” and “Desktop Publishing and Design in the Secondary School.” A self-paced study course, “Journalism Education in the Secondary School,” is offered online.

North Carolina joined the Journalism Education Association’s Mentoring Program this year.

Kay Phillips, former NCSMA director, and Mar-

tha Rothwell, former NCSMA board member, are serving as mentors through the program.

NCSMA helped form the N.C. College Media Association this year, and its support will be centered in the NCSMA office through at least 2010. Carolina hosted a one-day workshop this spring prepare the state’s college media for fall 2008 election coverage. N.C. State University Student Media will host the one-day workshop in spring 2009.

Sports Communication The sports communication program, now in its fourth year, is designed to bring all programs in the school together to look at the emerging 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 Miami Heat, 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.

Students’ work continues to place in the most prestigious competitions – from the National Press Photographers Association, to the Online News Association, to the Hearst Journalism Awards Program.

The visual communication program’s success is due in large part to our multimedia, infographics and documentary photojournalism emphases and our international documentary multimedia storytelling projects. This year’s international student projects covered environmental issues in Argentina and Chile and the tsunami aftermath in Thailand. Closer to home, some other projects focused on the local Latino community and social and environmental issues pertaining to the coasts of North and South Carolina.

Faculty dedication to the students has been recognized internationally, and members of the visual communication group have been invited speakers at conferences everywhere from Brazil to Barcelona to Sweden. This dedication to teaching and developing multimedia storytelling directly affects our students who are exposed to

Guest speakers have included NBC Sports director Michael Weisman, former Carolina basketball coach Bill Guthridge and Travis Tygart, general manager of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

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Sport communication students have landed jobs at ESPN, Nike, Onsport consulting, the Carolina Panthers and the Baltimore Ravens.

Visual Communication the most advanced 3-D design and programming techniques as well as the latest in eyetracking equipment to test, analyze and evaluate multimedia design. The school continues to host the annual judging of the Society for News Design’s international multimedia awards.

Experience some of the student’s work at: southofhere.org andamanrising.org carolinaphotojournalism.org

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The school’s visual communication programs in multimedia, photojournalism and graphic design continue to meet and exceed expectations of current students, alumni and the media organizations hiring our graduates. 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 such as The Dallas Morning News, the Rocky Mountain News and The Roanoke Times have hired numerous visual communication students as full-time staff or interns.

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Timeline 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 2007 through November 2008.

December 2007 Dec. 6

Faculty-staff holiday lunch Dec. 11

Carolina Week/Carolina Connection fall awards convocation Fall commencement

Jan. 22

John Skipper, executive vice president of content at ESPN, visited the school to speak with students and faculty.

Jan. 11

“Picturing the World” exhibition, featuring the work of Carolina photojournalism alumni, opened at the Ackland Art Museum.

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Jan. 9

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N.C. Science Blogging Conference sponsored by ibiblio and co-organized by clinical associate professor Paul Jones Neil Offen, editor of The Chapel Hill Herald, spoke about writing local features.

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Jan. 19

“Picturing the World” alumni and friends luncheon held in Gerrard Hall. The event was followed by presentations from internationally renowned photographer Harry Benson, former head of graphics and design programs at the Poynter Institute Pegie Stark Adam, and MediaStorm president Brian Storm.

Jan. 13

A panel discussion, “The Role of the Photojournalist in Society: Responsibilities and Outcomes,” moderated by Rich Beckman with photographers featured in the “Picturing the World” exhibit.

Jan. 17

Scott Anderson, CNN.com senior political producer, met with students and faculty via videoconference as part of the Inside the Future of News weekly series of conversations inside the nation’s leading online newsrooms.

Ramona DuBose, communications director for the UNC School of Public Health, spoke about the role of PIOs in aiding reporters.

Jan. 22

Brad Bennett, chairman of The Wildfire Agency visited sports communication classes.

Jan. 22 – 24

Rodrigo Cervantes, editor of Mundo Hispanico, visited the school as a Hearst Visiting Professional.

Jan. 23

Suzanne Gordon, a journalist, author and nursing advocate, spoke at a free, public lecture at the Stone Center. The event was co-sponsored by the School of Nursing.

Jan. 24

Suzanne Gordon delivered a talk entitled “Who and What Counts in the Media’s Coverage of Health Care” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series.

Jan. 24

Peter Roybal of Yahoo News met with students and faculty via videoconference as part of Inside the Future of News series.

Jan. 28

Tom Contiliano of Bloomberg News trained students and faculty on using the Bloomberg terminal in the school.

Jan 28

Helen Chickering, NBC News Channel medical reporter/ producer, visited a medical journalism class.

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Jan. 30

Paul Elam, management supervisor and partner with Ogilvy & Mather in Chicago, spoke in class and held informal interviews with students.

Jan. 31

Robert Kochersberger, English professor at N.C. State University, guest lectured in class.

Jan. 31

Jamie Hammond of Yahoo News met with students and faculty via videoconference as part of Inside the Future of News series.

February 2008 Feb. 4

Cliff Missen of eGranary visit co-sponsored by ibiblio Feb. 4

Kirk Ross and Robert Dickson, editor and publisher of the Carrboro Citizen, were guest lecturers in class.

Feb. 5

Alan Wolf, assistant business editor for The News & Observer, guest lectured on business desk structure.

Feb. 6

Thomas Clark, N.C. associate medical examiner, spoke in class.

Feb. 6

Steve Bouser, executive editor of The Pilot of Southern Pines, was a guest lecturer in class.

Feb. 7

event, which was co-sponsored by the Global Media Student Association.

Feb. 19

Ryan Teague Beckwith, Under The Dome blogger with The News & Observer, spoke in class.

Assistant professor Craig Carroll delivered a talk entitled “Computer-aided Text Analysis in Business, Politics and Media: History, Theory and Empirical Evidence with DICTION 5.0” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series.

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Feb. 7

Steve Merelman, front-page editor of The News & Observer, spoke to an advanced editing class.

Festus Eribo, professor at East Carolina University, spoke in an international mass communication class about African mass media.

Feb. 8

DJ Spooky performance co-sponsored by ibiblio

Greggory Phillips, From Fay to Z blogger with the Fayetteville Observer, spoke in class.

Feb. 19

Jon Ham, blogger with the John Locke Foundation, spoke in class.

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Feb. 19

Patty Courtright, editor of the University Gazette, spoke about writing campus features.

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Feb. 22

Katie Paine, president and CEO of KDPaine & Partners, visited classes in the school.

Feb. 22

The UNC Advertising Club hosted its 4th Annual Advertising Symposium, featuring professionals from Nike, the National Basketball Association, Capstrat and McKinney, among many others.

Feb. 22

John Smith, Orange County tax assessor, spoke in class.

Jim Jenkins, deputy editorial page editor for The News & Observer, spoke in class.

“Understanding HIPAA: A seminar on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and its effect on news coverage,” held in the Freedom Forum Conference Center, aimed to reduce confusion between journalists and health care providers over what information is restricted under HIPAA.

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Jeffrey Marcus of NYTimes.com met with students and faculty via videoconference as part of Inside the Future of News series.

Beth Hunt, manager of editorial operations for American City Business Journals, guest lectured on the relationship between business media and readers.

Jenny Campbell, marketing consultant for Nike, served as a client for a volunteer student advertising project.

Guido Berens, assistant professor at the Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands, delivered a talk entitled “The Boomerang Effect of CSR Promotion Campaigns During Corporate Crises” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series.

Feb. 21

CABJ Minority High School Journalism Program

Feb. 19

Patrick Washburn, professor at E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, delivered a talk entitled “George Padmore of the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago Defender: A Decidedly Different World War II Correspondent” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series.

Feb. 11

Draggan Mihailovich of 60 Minutes visited the school as a Hearst Visiting Professional.

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Feb. 14

International graduate students in the school, Reaz Mahmood from Bangladesh, Sherine El-Toukhy from Egypt, Hai Tran from Vietnam and Maya Mateshvili from Georgia, participated in a panel discussion in the Freedom Forum Conference Center about international perspectives on the U.S. presidential primaries.

Political communications professor Leroy Towns moderated the

Feb. 20

Gorg Gordon, photojournalist with the Carrboro Citizen, was a guest lecturer in class.

Feb. 21

Mike Williams, editor at share.triangle.com with The News & Observer, met with students and faculty via videoconference as part of Inside the Future of News series.

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Janet Jarman, a Mexico-based, award-winning photojournalist, gave a public lecture entitled “Long Range Documentary Coverage of Issues Relating to Social and Economic Justice.”

Feb. 26

Ben de la Cruz of washingtonpost.com spoke as part of the school’s PhotoNight program.

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Feb. 26

Jamie Cobb, executive creative director for MicroMass Communications, visited advertising classes.

Feb. 22

Greg Fishel, WRAL chief meteorologist, visited Val Lauder’s feature writing courses.

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Mary Anne Rhyne, director of U.S. media relations for Glaxo SmithKline, guest lectured on how public relations people work with business journalists.

Matt McAllister, associate professor in the College of Communications at Penn State University, delivered a talk entitled “’Girls With a Passion for Fashion’: The Bratz Brand as Integrated Spectacular Consumption” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series.

Bobbi Bowman, diversity director for American Society of Newspaper Editors, spoke to classes.

Feb. 26

Randall Gregg, founder of the Raleigh Chronicle and NCJournalism.com, spoke to classes.

March 9 – 10

Editorial Writers Conference March 13

JAFA alumni reception in Atlanta in the Bottle Cap Suite at the New World of Coke

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March 4

Arati Bechtel, writer and editor at JMP, a division of SAS Institute, was a guest speaker in an advanced editing class.

March 4

Joel Bourne, contributing writer for National Geographic, spoke about writing magazine features.

March 4

Sean Flynn, vice president of the Florida Marlins, visited sports communication classes.

March 5

Chris Rose, author and columnist for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, spoke in class.

March 5

Ken Ripley, editor and publisher of the Spring Hope Enterprise, was a guest lecturer in class.

Duncan Morrell, Harper’s magazine contributor, spoke about writing magazine features.

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Brian Simpson, public affairs specialist for the Social Security Administration, spoke on the role of public relations/public affairs in government offices.

Brian Simpson, public affairs specialist for the Social Security Administration, spoke on the role of public relations/public affairs in government offices.

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“Raising the Ante” symposium on the future of journalism convened in honor of Phil Meyer.

Norm Grey, founder of The Creative March 18 Bernard Mann, publisher of Our Circus, visited advertising classes.

State magazine, spoke to classes.

John Semonche, professor in the UNC Department of History, delivered a talk entitled “Researching Censorship: Censoring Sex: A Historical Journey Through American Media as a Model” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series.

Barbara Wall, vice president and associate general counsel for Gannett, spoke to media law and internet law classes and met with students and faculty.

Students travel on spring break trip to meet with mentors in Atlanta.

March 13 – 15

Bill Schneider

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March 19

Richard Griffiths, CNN editorial director, visited classes.

March 20

Mary Specht, product design specialist with Gannett, met with students and faculty via videoconference as part of Inside the Future of News series.

March 20

Kalyani Ankem, associate professor in the School of Library and Information Sciences at N.C. Central University, delivered a talk entitled “Cancer Patients’ Information Needs and Information Sources: A Quantitative Meta Synthesis (1993-2003)” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series.

March 25

Steve Zelnak, CEO of Martin Marietta Materials, was interviewed by business reporting students.

March 25

James Delany, commissioner of the Big Ten Conference, visited sports communication classes.

March 27

Bill Schneider, CNN senior political analyst, delivered the Nelson Benton Lecture on “The Role of Media in Politics.”

March 27

Cori E. Dauber, associate professor in the UNC Department of Communication Studies, delivered a talk entitled “Terrorism as Media Event: Terrorist and Insurgent Strategies for Manipulating the Western Press” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series.

March 28

James R. Guthrie, former president and CEO of the National Advertising Review Council, spoke on advertising industry selfregulation in media law classes.

March 30

N.C. Journalism Hall of Fame inductions and Next Generation Leadership Award ceremony March 31

David Woronoff, publisher of The Pilot of Southern Pines, was a guest lecturer in class.

March 31

Ted Mellnik, Charlotte Observer database editor, spoke in class.

March 31 – April 1

Michelle LaRoche, assistant managing editor for Dow Jones

April 1

David Zucchino, international correspondent for The Los Angeles Times, spoke about covering Iraq and Afghanistan.

April 1

Congressional Quarterly’s Ken Sands, executive editor of innovation, and Paul Volpe, newsroom technology manager, met with students to get help creating a Facebook application for CQ to use during presidential nomination conventions.

April 1

Federico van Gelderen, founder of the Latino Consulting Group and former Que Pasa publisher and Univision executive, spoke to classes.

April 2

Tim Harrower, a leading news page designer and author of the Newspaper Designer’s Handbook, met with students and faculty and spoke in classes.

April 2–3

Lt Col. Maria Carl, NATO spokeswoman, spoke to classes about a career in military public relations.

April 3

John Robinson, editor of the Greensboro News & Record, met with students and faculty via videoconference as part of Inside the Future of News series.

April 3

Melanie Green, assistant professor in the UNC Department of Psychology, delivered a talk entitled “Transportation into Narrative Worlds” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series.

April 5

N.C. College Media Association Conference April 8

Tola Oguntoyinbo, co-founder and CEO of Sonecast, spoke to classes.

April 8

Jill Boy, communications director for the Duke Cancer

professor of advertising in the school, and Eva May, president of Español Marketing and Communication.

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April 17

David Rowell, articles editor for The Washington Post Magazine, visited classes.

Gary Marchionini, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished professor in the UNC School of Information and Library Science, delivered a talk entitled “Digital Video: From Digital Libraries to Social Interaction” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series.

April 9

The school hosted an opening reception for 37th Frame, an exhibition of the best work in 2007-2008 from Carolina photojournalism students.

April 10

Rich Beckman, James L. Knight professor of visual communication in the school, delivered the 17th Roy H. Park Distinguished Lecture, “The Road Less Traveled – Changing the World One Story at a Time.”

April 17

Randy Jessee, director of newsroom technology for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, spoke to classes.

April 17

Kirk Stewart, formerly with Nike global communications, visited public relations classes.

April 21

Keith Roe, professor at the Leuven School of Mass Communication Research in Belgium, delivered a talk entitled “School Commitment, School Achievement and Media Use in Early Adolescence: A Typology of Student Groups” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series.

Judges for final student campaign presentations in Bob Lauterborn’s class were Mike Allen, creative director for Rockett Burkhead Winslow; Paige Jennings Zinn, chief operating officer for Jennings Co.; Gordon Peterson, principal for Walk Sign Consulting; and Mervyn Rozet, president of Daintree Marketing.

April 11 – 12

April 21

School’s spring board of advisers meeting. Members visited and spoke in classes.

School honors convocation and awards ceremony

April 10

Bert Fox, photography director for The Charlotte Observer, spoke as part of the school’s PhotoNight program.

April 10

John Bussian, media attorney who represents Freedom Communications properties and The News & Observer, Durham Herald-Sun and other N.C. media, spoke in class.

April 14

Alex Podligar, sports editor at The Sanford Herald, was a guest lecturer in class.

April 15

John Conway, director of product development for WRAL.com, spoke to classes.

April 16

“Creating a Successful Hispanic Market Program,” a seminar discussing how manufacturers, retailers and service providers can create and implement successful Hispanic marketing programs, was led by Bob Lauterborn, Knight

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Center, participated in a mock news conference about Duke research on oncologist-patient communication.

April 22

Jan Schaffer, executive director of J-Lab, The Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland, spoke to classes via teleconference.

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Newswires, sat in on business reporting class and held informational sessions with students.

April 23

Dick Gordon, host of American Public Media’s “The Story,” and Jay Price, a reporter for The News & Observer, discussed their experiences covering the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the inaugural Alumni Conversations series.

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June 2008 June 4

Media training for Orange County Health Department June 16-19

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July 2008 July 7-17

Training classes for high school journalism teachers July 13-16

Summer Institute for Midcareer Copy Editors July 13-19

Chuck Stone Program for Diversity in Education and Media July 28

Six Tunisian bloggers visited with students and faculty in the school.

August 2008 Aug. 12

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School’s fall board of advisers meeting Sept. 15

“Money, Politics and the First Amendment: A Debate on Special Interest Advertising in Elections” presented by the Center for Media Law and Policy with support from Lincoln Financial Media Sept. 18

Ruth Walden, James Howard and Hallie McLean Parker Distinguished Professor in the school, delivered a talk entitled “Deciphering Dun & Bradstreet: Does the First Amendment Matter in Private Figure-Private Concern Defamation Cases?” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series.

Sept. 19

Graduate student picnic at Anderson Park in Carrboro Sept. 23

Miklos Haraszti, a Hungarian Introduction to the Federal Reserve writer, journalist and human rights for Business Journalists executive advocate, who is the Representaeducation event held in Charlotte. tive on Freedom of the Media for the Organization for Security Aug. 15 and Cooperation in Europe Graduate student orientation (OSCE) gave the lecture “Media Aug. 18 Freedom East and West: As Seen Faculty-staff picnic at Dean By the OSCE’s Media Freedom Folkerts’ house Watchdog.”

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Holding Power Accountable executive education event held in Oak Island, N.C.

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April 29

Carolina Week/Carolina Connection spring awards convocation

May 2008 May 3 – 9

Multimedia bootcamp May 9

The school partnered with the N.C. Press Association to host the Newspaper Academy, a full day of training for newspaper reporters and editors.

May 22-23

NPR Reporters Conference at the school

David Weaver, professor at the Indiana University School of Journalism, and the Roy H. Park Visiting Professor in the school, delivered a talk entitled “Journalism Research in an Age of Globalization” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series.

Sept. 24

Toni Locy, the former USA Today reporter who reported on the 2001 anthrax attacks and refused to reveal her sources, delivered the lecture “Committing Journalism: Contempt for Reporters in Post9/11 America.” Presented by the Center for Media Law and Policy.

Sept. 25

Joe Walther, professor in the Department of Communication at Michigan State University, delivered a talk entitled “MultipleAgent Interfaces and the Influence Sources Who Comprise Them: A Sept. 9 Communication-Theoretic Agenda John Drescher of The News & Observer visited Professor Richard for Web 2.0” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series.

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Sept. 11

Ken Lowe, chairman, president and CEO, Scripps Networks Interactive, delivered the 18th Roy H. Park Distinguished Lecture – “An Evolving Paradigm: Media in the Interactive Age.”

Sept. 25

“Freedom Sings” event about music that has been banned, censored or sounded a call for social change. Presented in partnership with The News & Observer.

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Barbara Wildemuth of UNC SILS delivered a talk entitled “What Patients Want from Their Personal Health Records” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series.

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Oct. 7

Site visit to Carroll Hall from the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC)

National Press Club Centennial Forum and panel discussion on the future of journalism.

Oct. 8

Writing Roundtable luncheon for first-year students and sophomores Oct. 9

Richard Petty, professor in the Department of Psychology at Ohio State University, delivered a talk entitled “Self-validation: The role of thought confidence in persuasion” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series.

Oct. 9-14

The school hosted international journalists as part of the U.S. Department of State’s Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists.

Oct. 14

JOMC Foundation board meeting

“Comic Stripped: A Revealing Look at Southern Stereotypes in Cartoons” exhibit opens in the school. The exhibit, which will run through the spring 2009 semester, is presented in partnership with the Triad Foundation and the Levine Museum of the New South.

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Spring break trip to Washington, D.C., and alumni reception on Capitol Hill Apr. 2

Roy H. Park Distinguished Lecture Apr. 2-3

Spring board of advisers meeting Apr. 19

N.C. Hall of Fame inductions May 10

Spring commencement May 8

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Oct. 16

Central Carolina Journalism Day Oct. 16-17

Fall break trip to New York.

Reception held at The New York Times headquarters.

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Ron Rice, professor at the University of California-Santa Barbara, delivered a talk entitled “Unusual Routines: Dysfunctional Organizational Feedback Systems” as part of the Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series.

Oct. 28

Chris Rainier, a National Geographic Fellow, presented his work as part of the PhotoNight program.

Nov. 7

N.C. Press Association board meeting Nov. 12

Jamie Jacobson and Charlie Adams of Adams & Longino advertising agency in Greenville, N.C., visited assistant professor Dana McMahan’s class.

Top: Participants in the Murrow Program for Journalists on the steps of Carroll Hall.

Bottom: National Press Club Centennial Forum panelists, Orage Quarles III and Penny Abernathy.

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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.

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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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Two offices on Carroll Hall’s third floor were converted this year to create a satellite news studio equipped with high-definition cameras and editing equipment. The studio enables the school and other University faculty and administrators to be interviewed by television networks, cable stations and radio programs without leaving the Carolina campus. Previously, University experts had to travel to studios in Durham or Raleigh, which limited opportunities for our faculty to respond to media requests.

An area behind the school’s research center is being converted into a new classroom. In the Park Library, a computer lab is being retrofitted and equipped with special software to be used by research methods courses.

Carroll Hall also was outfitted with a new roof this year, and neighboring Hanes Hall’s renovation project was completed. Phase II of the University’s science complex building project is underway just south of Carroll Hall where Venable Hall formerly stood.

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.

Several national publications publish rankings that list Carolina prominently in categories ranging from academic quality to affordability to diversity to engagement to international presence.

Top: UNC-Chapel Hill Campus Bottom: Seethong, the son of immigrants from Myanmar, waits for a doctor with his older sister at a hospital in southern Thailand. Seethong’s parents came to Thailand fleeing persecution, but when the 6-year-old injured his hand in a rubber making press, the ensuing hospital bill threatened to ruin everything the family had built for itself.

U.S. News & World Report’s 2007 “Best Colleges” edition ranked Carolina the fifth best public university for the sixth consecutive year.

Carolina’s more than 253,000 alumni live in all 50 states and 142 countries. Nearly 131,000 of those alumni live in all 100 North Carolina counties.

International The school is engaged globally with international partnerships in China, Mexico, South Korea, Chile and other nations across the world. New partnerships in Spain, England and France are being developed, while the school

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is seeking to establish stronger ties in South America, South Africa and the Middle East.

The school was involved in several meaningful international projects this year that expanded student horizons and pushed the school’s reach further around the world.

More than 30 students and faculty traveled to Beijing this summer to support international journalists covering the 2008 Olympic games.

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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 six consecutive times since Kiplinger’s began these periodic surveys in 1998.)

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STRATEGIC FOCUS The UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communicationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s responsibility is to train the next generation of media professionals, including journalists, strategic communicators, teachers and researchers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and to serve journalism and communication professionals.

Our most important assets are our students and graduates.

We will hold true to the core principles of journalism and mass communication education while leading the transformation in the digital communications environment. We are harnessing technology to enhance our mission of teaching, research and service.

The result is a highly engaged school with a significant voice in the evolving issues of our time.

Our six major themes:

teaching and curriculum Re-designing our teaching and curriculum to give students â&#x20AC;&#x201C; undergraduate, graduate and continuing education â&#x20AC;&#x201C; competence in the range of skills they need in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environment, and tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Hiring faculty strategically to address our goals and adding online courses to make our curriculum more accessible.

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Focusing our research to advance our understanding of mediaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role in society.

service and outreach Putting our talent and expertise to work to serve community needs in North Carolina and beyond.

extra-curricular experiences Expanding student horizons to prepare them for success in an increasingly global, digital and market-based world.

contact with alumni and media professionals Consulting with alumni and working professionals to remain current on the challenges and opportunities in the field.

funding priorities Securing funds to launch new initiatives and build on the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s areas of excellence.

Teaching and curriculum r &NQIBTJ[F UIF DPSF QSJODJQMFT PG BDDVSBDZ clarity, fairness and ethics. r %FWFMPQ NVMUJNFEJB TLJMMT GPS BMM TUVEFOUT r $SFBUF DBSFFS QBUIXBZT GPS TUVEFOUT r %FWFMPQ TUVEFOU TUSFOHUIT JO CVTJOFTT languages, economics, history and other specialties. r 3FDSVJU TUVEFOUT GPS UIF . " + % EVBM degree program with the UNC School of Law.* r -BVODI UIF OFX $FSUJÄ&#x2014;DBUF JO Interdisciplinary Health Communication with the School of Public Health, SILS and the College of Arts and Sciences.* r &YQBOE DVSSJDVMVN JO TUSBUFHJD BOE QPMJUJDBM communication.* r 6OEFSUBLF TDIPPM XJEF QSPKFDU FYBNJOJOH impact of Latinos in N.C.* r *ODSFBTF GBDVMUZ EFWFMPQNFOU PQQPSUVOJUJFT including training in new technology.

Service and outreach r -BVODI UIF $FOUFS GPS .FEJB -BX BOE Policy.* r $POWFOF B GVUVSF PG OFXT TZNQPTJVN UP honor Phil Meyer, who retires in 2008.* r -BVODI $BSSCPSP $PNNPOT r %FWFMPQ QMBO GPS DFMFCSBUJOH UIF DFOUFOOJBM of journalism at Carolina.* r &YQBOE UIF TDIPMBTUJD NFEJB QSPHSBN r 1SPWJEF BEEJUJPOBM FYFDVUJWF FEVDBUJPO opportunities for working professionals.

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r 4VQQPSU VOEFSHSBEVBUF QSPHSBNT JODMVEJOH sports communication and business and community journalism. r 4VQQPSU HSBEVBUF QSPHSBNT JODMVEJOH medical journalism, health communication and the M.A./J.D. program. r &YQBOE JOUFSOBUJPOBM HSBEVBUF GFMMPXTIJQT r 4VQQPSU UIF $BSPMJOB 1IPUPKPVSOBMJTN Workshop, PhotoNight and 37th Frame. r $SFBUF B GBDVMUZ MFE TUVEFOU SVO advertising/public relations agency. r 'VOE USBOTJUJPO UP IJHI EFÄ&#x2014;OJUJPO UFMFWJTJPO r 4VQQPSU QSPGFTTJPOBM PQQPSUVOJUJFT GPS students including spring and fall break networking trips. r 'VOE OFX EJTUJOHVJTIFE QSPGFTTPSTIJQT r *ODSFBTF GVOEJOH GPS CBTJD BOE BQQMJFE research.

Research r 3FQMJDBUF UIF MBOENBSL BHFOEB TFĨJOH TUVEZ r *ODSFBTF SFTFBSDI MFBWF PQQPSUVOJUJFT GPS faculty. r &YQBOE UIF TDPQF BOE BDUJWJUJFT PG PVS research center. r 3FEVDF UFBDIJOH MPBET UISPVHI BEEJUJPOBM faculty positions and efficient course offerings.* r )JSF HSBOUT BENJOJTUSBUPS Extra-curricular experiences r $SFBUF HMPCBM SFMBUJPOTIJQT JO Europe*, Asia, South America and Latin America. r &ODPVSBHF USBOTOBUJPOBM FYQFSJFODFT GPS BMM students. r 1SPWJEF BEEJUJPOBM PQQPSUVOJUJFT GPS students to gain experience through networking trips and internships. r *ODSFBTF EJWFSTJUZ JO GBDVMUZ TUBÄ&#x17D; BOE students.* * Done (November 2008)

Fiscal Year 2008 Giving Gifts to the school in fiscal year 2008 totaled $4.9 million, posting gains of 3 percent in dollars and 2 percent in donors over fiscal year 2007.

Giving highlights from the past year: r Ä&#x2030;F 5SJBE 'PVOEBUJPO DPOUJOVFE JUT generous support of the graduate program, making it possible to attract the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best graduate students to the school. This year, 14 new masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and eight new doctoral students received Roy H. Park Fellowships funded by the Triad Foundation. r (JÄ&#x203A;T JO LJOE PG TPÄ&#x203A;XBSF BOE MJDFOTJOH 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. r Ä&#x2030;F +PIO 4 BOE +BNFT - ,OJHIU Foundation gave $200,000 to convert the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Knight Chair to a new focus on digital media economics and journalism. r 5XP OFX TDIPMBSTIJQT UIF %JBOF )BSWFZ Bradley Scholarship and the Clarence E. and Jane P. Whitefield Scholarship, were created. r "O FOEPXNFOU BXBSE IPOPSJOH the legendary sports writer Furman Bisher was established to recognize one student every year for his or her passion for sports journalism. The annual award includes a medal bearing Bisherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likeness and $5,000 when the endowment is fully funded at $100,000. r "O FOEPXNFOU DSFBUFE CZ +BNJF Jacobson and Charlie Adams will help establish a student-run communications agency in the school.

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Thanks to the generous support of alumni and friends, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication raised $45.4 million during the eight-year Carolina First Campaign, which ended officially Dec. 31, 2007.

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Campaign gifts support the students, faculty, programs, research and facilities that make Carolina’s journalism school one of the best in the world.

Examples of Carolina First Campaign impact include: r Eight new professorships, which include the Horace Carter Professorship, the Richard Cole Eminent Professorship, the Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Scholar in Business Journalism, the Walter Hussman Term Professorship, the Hugh Morton Distinguished Professorship in Journalism and Mass Communication, the James Howard and Hallie McLean Parker Distinguished Professorship, the Distinguished Professorship in Sports Communication and the John Thomas Kerr Jr. Distinguished Professorship. r Fifty-five new scholarships and fellowships, which include the Mary Kathryn Forbes Scholarship and the Peter DeWitt Pruden and Phyllis Harrill Stancill Pruden Scholarship and Graduate Fellowship. The Forbes scholarship and

Pruden scholarship and fellowship each provide more than $12,000 to outstanding students in the school. r New Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics, which focuses on preserving quality journalism by helping the industry succeed economically in the digital media environment. r Out-of-classroom experiences for students, including the Don and Barbara Curtis Excellence Fund for Extracurricular Student Activities and JAFA-sponsored fall and spring break networking trips.

Adams-Jacobson Endowment Jamie Jacobson and Charlie Adams of Greenville, N.C., Carolina alumni and owners of the award-winning Adams & Longino advertising agency, want to help students put their communication skills to work.

The couple marked their agency’s 30th anniversary by establishing the Adams-Jacobson Endowment to help students create advertising, marketing, public relations and media relations materials for outside clients. Their $30,000 gift attracted two $10,000 matching gifts – one from the Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation and one from Ed Vick, a 1966 graduate of the school, former chair and CEO of Young & Rubicam, and chair of the school’s board of advisers.

The Furman Bisher Medal honors the 1938 UNC journalism graduate and recognizes one student every year who exemplifies the passion for sports journalism and community service exhibited by Bisher. His friends and colleagues launched an endowment that, when fully funded at $100,000, will provide an annual cash prize of $5,000. Recipients Furman Bisher also receive a medal bearing Bisherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name and likeness. The National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association and Hall of Fame presents the medal and cash prize at its annual awards banquet.

Diane was well known and admired by students and faculty in the school for her leadership in conducting the interview and selection process for the Charles Kuralt Fellowship in International Broadcasting at Voice of America.

Charlie Adams and Jamie Jacobson

Jaime Zea, a junior from Holly Springs, N.C., was the first recipient of the award.

Clarence E. and Jane P. Whitefield Scholarship

Bisher, a legendary sports writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, is a member of the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame, the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame, the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame, the International Golf Writers Hall of Fame, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame, and the N.C. Journalism Hall of Fame, located in the school.

Clarence Whitefield, a 1948 graduate of the journalism school, and his wife, Jane, have established a $50,000 scholarship endowment in the school for N.C. students who want to work for universities in alumni or media relations.

Walter Storholt, an electronic communications major from Pine Knoll Shores, N.C., is the first recipient of the Furman Bisher Medal.

The Clarence E. and Jane P. Whitefield Scholarship will provide $2,500 each year to an outstanding student in the school.

Diane Harvey Bradley Scholarship Diane Harvey Bradley, who worked as a journalist and editor with the Voice of America for more than 30 years, passed away on April 26, 2007, at the age of 58 after battling cancer for two and a half years. To honor his wife, David Bradley established the Diane Harvey Bradley Scholarship in the school last year.

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Clarence and Jane Whitefield

Whitefield, a Durham native, worked in the UNC News Bureau during his time as a Carolina student. He spent 19 years at Carolina as a fund raiser, director of alumni affairs and special assistant to the vice chancellor for advancement. He is a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece and has been chairman of the Carolina Living Legends since 1977.

Jane Whitefield, a native of Granville County, graduated from UNC-Greensboro with a history degree. In the 1950s she was executive secretary of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Association and from 1961 to 1981 operated the Medical-Dental Hospital Bureau of North Carolina.

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Furman Bisher Medal

The $100,000 endowment will support an annual $5,000 scholarship for undergraduate or graduate broadcasting students with financial need.

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Jacobson, a 1977 graduate of the school, and Adams, a 1977 UNC history major, hope the endowment will lead to the establishment of a communications agency in the school, staffed by students and advised by faculty. The AdamsJacobson Endowment will support an annual operating budget for the agency when it is created.

National Association of Black Journalists, and a Tuskegee Airman.

The 2008 program, with generous funding from the Gannett Foundation, was held at the school July 13 – 19.

Assistant professor Napoleon Byars directs the program in cooperation with the North Carolina Scholastic Media Association (NCSMA).

Charles Gerrard Society Chuck Stone talks with students in the Chuck Stone Program for Diversity in Education and Media

Clarence and Jane received the University’s Distinguished Service Medal in 1982, awarded by the General Alumni Association for outstanding service to the University.

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DTH Scholarship for the N.C. Scholastic Media Association

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With a $25,000 endowment, The Daily Tar Heel funded scholarships for two high school journalists from North Carolina who attend the N.C. Scholastic Media Association’s Summer Institute. The institute’s faculty choose top students for the award, and the winners are announced on the final day of the program. Tyler Holbrook from Wake Forest-Rolesville High School and Kimberly Hill from Providence High School won the DTH scholarships in 2008.

Chuck Stone Program for Diversity in Education and Media The Chuck Stone Program for Diversity in Education and Media identifies and brings to Carolina’s campus 20 talented high school students from diverse backgrounds across the U.S. for an intensive one-week workshop in journalism and mass communication for rising seniors interested in print journalism.

The program honors the school’s professor emeritus Chuck Stone, who was a newspaper editor and columnist, the first president of the

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: 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

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.

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 gave generously in last fiscal year, 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 Edward Hoge Vick Jr. The Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Advertising Larry Bellamy Allen Marshall Bosworth IV Brandon Cooke Susan Fowler Credle Richard Lingham Fisher Dana Davenport Headrick Suzanne Story Lowe LeAnn Wilson McGuire Elizabeth Burns Millay Audrey Ramsey Riegling Michael Lindsay Sewell Gail Williams Sewell Kimberly Bridges Stephens The Advertising Women of New York Scholarship Award Advertising Women of New York Foundation Capstrat Scholarship Capstrat Inc. Carol Reuss Fund Carol Reuss Carolinas Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Society Scholarship Fund Carolinas Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Society Carroll Hall Renovation Fund Rhonda Gibson and Joe Bob Hester

Carter Hubbard Scholarship Julius Cicero Hubbard Jr. The Charles Hauser Scholarship Fund Lisa Mento Charles Kuralt Learning Center Thurman W. Worthington Jr. Chuck Stone Program for Diversity in Education and Media Gannett Foundation Inc. Chuck Stone Citizen of the World Award Ronnie G. Ashby Mark and Presley Bright Kimberly Dianne Brown Donna Rae Carroll David Harold Cooper II Sara Weeks Dima Katherine Page Fullington Julius and Pamela Graham Sean and Teesha Johnson Michael Ray Kaylor Rochelle Helene Klaskin Rachael Landau Kornblum Gretchen Spangler Rotondo The Clarence E. and Jane P. Whitefield Scholarship Fund Clarence E. and Jane P. Whitefield Cole C. Campbell Professional Development Fund Jane Elizabeth Albright Amy Bradfield Claire Campbell Gina A. Carey Diane Dubois G. Steven Felts Donald Graham Gail Gregg

The Daily Tar Heel Scholarship for the N.C. Scholastic Media Association The Daily Tar Heel David Jordan Whichard II Scholarship Virginia Whichard Caudill David Jordan Whichard II David Julian Whichard Scholarship Fund Whichard Family Foundation The Diane Harvey Bradley Scholarship David Bradley Philip H. Bradley R. James and June Harvey Michael Lipin The Don and Barbara Curtis Endowment Donald Williams Curtis E. Eugene Jackson Scholarship Fund Lawrence J. Goldrich Earl Wynn Award Cleophus P. Crowder David Earl Hoxeng Eleanor Barker Trommsdorff Electronic Communication Sherrie Antoinette Johnson The Erwin Potts Scholarship William McClatchy F. Weston Fenhagen Scholarship for International Students George M. Brady III John Carlson Betsy Young Fenhagen Caitlin Fenhagen Nancy Maass Kinnally Nancy P. Weston The Furman Bisher Fund Gene Asher Charles A. Barnhart Furman Bisher Scott Candler Jr. Norman Carlson Jim Carson

Gerry Chatham David Cleghorn Ben Crenshaw David Davidson and Calista Hooper Vince Dooley Gregory Favre James K. Harper Jr. James Hunter David Kaplan John Logue Mickey Logue James and Anne Minter Reg Murphy Jack and Barbara Nicklaus William Clyde Partin Sr. C.D. Riddle Charles Milton Shaffer Jr. Lee Walburn Bill Whitley Tom Willow James M. Cox Foundation of Georgia PGA Tour Inc. Atlanta Classic Foundation Cousins Foundation Royal and Ancient Golf Club Motorsports Charities Inc. National Sportscasters & Sportswriters Association and Hall of Fame

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Floyd Alford Jr. Scholarship Julie W. Alford Emily Mason Balance Gift In Kind Gary Victor Kayye David William Small Edward Hoge Vick Jr. Cision CustomScoop KDPaine & Partners TV Eyes HBCU Business Journalism Program Duke Energy Corp.

Hal Tanner Sr. Scholarship N.C. Press Services Harvey F. Laffoon Scholarship Grace Laffoon The Henry Boggan Memorial Fund Charles A. Williams III Hugh Morton Distinguished Professorship in Journalism and Mass Communication William Grimes Cherry III Charles Roy Heatherly Julia Taylor Morton Catherine Walker Morton Rolfe and Ann Neill Susan Fitz Rhodes Ramon Lyon Yarborough

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The honor roll below recognizes contributors to the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the school’s foundation from July 1, 2007, through June 30, 2008.

Charles Hines Eric Liberman Ann Martinelli Livermore Spyros Loukas John Murphy Todd Nicolini Cynthia Page Timothy and Elizabeth Reese Theodore Roorda David Brian Layton Royle Michael Shenk Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. Kathryn Tolbert-Dohner George Tompkins Kenna Stephenson Watts

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Fiscal Year 2008 Donors July 1, 2007–June 30, 2008

Ed Jackson International Scholarship Program Edward Jackson and Kathleen Beakley Jackson The James V. D’Aleo Award Lois A. Boynton Robert I. D’Aleo Joseph DiOrio James H. Shumaker Term Professorship Claudia C. Cannady Donald Lee Freedman Rebecca Erin Hockfield G. Michael Hugo Peter Scott Lineberry Guy Stephen Lucas Eugene Upchurch III Andrea Monroe Weaver Arthur Devlin Woodruff Eleanor Lee Yates The Jane Brown Research Gift Fund Jane Delano Brown The John Bittner Fund Becky Tucker Pickett Larry Dean Stone Jr. John Albert Campbell III Scholarship Fund Elizabeth Gardner Braxton John Harden Scholarship Fund Mark Michael Harden

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John L. Greene Fund John Lee Greene Jr.

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The John H. Stembler Jr. Professorship Estate of John Hardwick Stembler Jr. The John Sweeney Interview Fund Roy Hampton Park III and Laura Singer Park Journalism Alumni and Friends Association Sara Elizabeth Lamm Journalism Fall and Spring Break Networking Trips Joseph and Jean Nelson Catherine Reuhl Journalism Special Fund Emilio Peralta Burroughs Wellcome Fund Institutes for Health Sciences Lincoln Financial Media Mericos Foundation North Carolina Association of Broadcasters Foundation

North Carolina Biotechnology Center Progress Energy Publisher’s International Linking Association SAS Institute Inc. Thespians Club

Kathryn M. Cronin Scholarship HMC Education Foundation Keever Scholarship Glenn and Nancy Keever Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics John S. & James L. Knight Foundation Larry and Carolyn Keith Awards Larry and Carolyn Keith Lois and H.C. Cranford Jr. Endowment Peter and Jacqueline Bowles Mackey-Byars Scholarship Fund Napoleon and Queenie Mackey Byars The Margaret A. Blanchard Scholarship Fund Lois A. Boynton William Davie Nancy Cole Pawlow Maxwell Graduate Scholarships in Medical Journalism Kenneth and Tracey Scruggs Maxwell Medical Journalism Gift Fund Gertrude Walton Atkins Mexico/Cuba Student Travel Fund Frederick Dana Hutchison Michael John Sauer Scholarship for Sports Communication Lisa M. Battaglia Lisa Batts Mary Jo Hester Cashion Richmond Davis David Guy Kathy Lintelman George-Ann M. Sauer Elizabeth Whaley Selisker Susan Weitz Michael R. Bumgardner Scholarship Fund R. Bruce and Jeneane Bowers

Midcareer Copyeditors Program Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation Molly McKay Scholarship Ashley Hartmann Corinne Marguerite MacLaggan Ralph and Carole Ann McKay George and Nancy Mordecai News-Editorial Sarah Lindsay Tate N.C. Community Media Project Rachel LaVerne Lillis N.C. Working Press Scholarship Endowment N.C. Working Press N.C. Press Association/N.C. Press Services Scholarship N.C. Press Association O.J. Coffin Memorial Scholarship Sabrina Sharma Miskelly John Thomas Stephens Jr. Peggy Allen Internship The Daily Tar Heel Robert and Vickie Ripley Jr. Pete Ivey Scholarship Judson and Sarah DeRamus Jr.

Richard Beckman Award in Documentary Multimedia Storytelling Elizabeth Brawley Dellinger Janet Jarman Amy Elizabeth Jicha Dorothy Shuford Lanier Anne Cone Liptzin The Richard Cole Fund Bonnie Angelo Jo Ellen Bass Stephen and Kristi Griggs Troy Kenneth Hales John Joseph Hasimoto James Russell Hefner III Joslin Tucker Higgins Rachel LaVerne Lillis Paul Timothy O’Connor Nancy G. Pate Merrill Rose Kirstin Julie Russ Jon Kurka Rust L. Joseph Sanders J. Vincent and Donna Parks Wheeler Sherri Sanders Whitesell Gregory Michael Wilson Rick Brewer Scholarship Michael and Kelley Burch Megan Eliza Collins Karin Marie Kercher J. Bryant Kirkland III Amy Edwards Powell Lenox Daniel Rawlings III Jack and Penny Rogers Rebecca Branch Swift Jonathan Sanford Vaden Francis Xavier Zang

Program on Southern Politics Linda Marie DiPasquale

The Robin Clark Experience William Banks Bohannon Patrice Jane Dickey Glenn Richard and Ann Clark Howell Margaret Olivia Kirk Marjo Edwina Rankin Robert Louis and Michael Newton Samsot David and Kacey Zucchino UNC General Alumni Association

Public Relations Robin Westfall Hesselink Katherine Lee Hollander Tamara Woodard Norman

Roy H. Park Fellowship for Graduate Students Triad Foundation

Raleigh Mann Scholarship Fund Kendra Leigh Gemma Geoffrey Michael Graybeal G. Michael Hugo Jonathan Davis Jones Jane Green Kleine Meggan Everidge Monroe Jo Lee Credle Robinson

Scholarships Crystal Nicole Calloway Douglas Oliver Cumming Lynn Davis Elizabeth Tatum English Ann Murphy Freeman Stephanie Elizabeth Jordan T. Parker and Anne Knox Maddrey Caroline Elizabeth Mozingo Deana Ann Nail North Carolina Psychoanalytic Foundation

Pfizer Minority Medical Journalism Scholarship Pfizer Inc. Phillip Alston Scholarship Joel and Edith Bourne

Ashley Lauren Perryman Laura Seifert Santos David Bradley Schmidt Katherine Massey Snider Timothy Ohrom Tarkington Caitlin Elizabeth Young

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