Five students named to UWIRE 100
Five UNC students were named to the UWIRE 100 list of the nation’s top college journalists.
LaToya Evans, Adam Rhew, Joseph Schwartz, Walter Storholt and Julie Turkewitz were selected from more than 500 students nominated from 132 schools. Carolina’s journalism school led all other schools with five students making the list.
The students featured at UWIRE.com will be named in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured on CBS News.
UWIRE is wire service affiliated with CBS that generates more than 500 stories a day. UWIRE identifies the best young content creators and delivers their work to a larger audience.
Evans, a May 2008 graduate from Fayetteville, N.C., is pursuing a career in magazine journalism. She freelances for Glamour and People, and she has interned with Vogue, Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan. She was executive editor for Kaleidoscope magazine and a columnist and staff writer for The Daily Tar Heel.
“LaToya has spent a great deal of her college experience working with magazines and teaching other students how to achieve their dream jobs in magazines,” said Deborah Neffa, a friend of Evans.
Rhew, a graduate from Charlotte, N.C., has anchored the “Carolina Week” television program. He was a political reporter and anchor for WCHL 1360 AM and a freelance reporter for CBS Radio News.
“He is the consummate professional, yet maintains his human side,” said associate professor C.A. Tuggle. “That's a rare combination even in the professional ranks. I expect him to do tremendously well as a working journalist.”
May graduate Joseph Schwartz from Chapel Hill worked on various desks at the DTH and eventually served as editor-in-chief. He interned with the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times last summer and will travel to China with a group of the school’s students and faculty to cover the Summer Olympic Games.
DTH editor-in-chief Allison Nichols said Schwartz maximized each individual’s potential while he was editor.
Storholt, a rising senior from Greensboro, N.C., also will travel to China for the Olympics this summer. Storholt called the play-by-play for the national broadcast of the UNC vs. UNC-Asheville basketball game this year for ESPNU’s “Campus Connection.” He also reported sports for “Carolina Week” and WCHL.
“His versatility is impressive,” said Tuggle. “He's very well-rounded and willing to put in the time and effort to make his pieces very, very good.”
A graduate from Brookeville, Md., Turkewitz was a staff writer and assistant features editor at the DTH, and interned with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Baltimore Sun. In addition to being a valuable writer, she developed photography skills during her senior year.
“I do not believe there is any college journalist in this country who can write and produce photos like Julie can,” said DTH editor-in-chief Erin Zureick.