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By Grace Lamb-Atkinson

Carolyn Van Houten ’14 graduated from UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media only six years ago, but the industry has already recognized her as a leader in her field of photojournalism.
This week, the 29-year-old native North Carolinian was selected for the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the Media category. Van Houten is a photojournalist at The Washington Post, based in Washington, D.C.

“No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram,” the first book by UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media alumna Sarah Frier, won the Financial Times/McKinsey 2020 Business Book of the Year Award during a live ceremony from London on Tuesday, Dec. 1. The short list for the £30,000 award included authors Jill Lepore, Daniel Susskind and Reed Hastings. Frier is a longtime Bloomberg journalist covering social media from San Francisco who interned with Bloomberg News while a student at UNC-Chapel Hill and has been with the business news behemoth since she graduated from Carolina with a degree in media and journalism in 2011.

By Beth HatcherFor Ferrel Guillory, journalism was a way in.
Into an education few in his working-class Louisiana family ever received.
Into a front row seat for the sweeping societal changes taking place around him.
Into a chance to leave an impact on the greater public good.

Winners of the 2020 Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas (RTDNAC) awards competition were announced this month. In a long and proud tradition for the school, UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media walked away with the bulk of this year’s student awards for the region — placing in 11 categories, including a full sweep of every available radio award. Talented graduate Annabeth Poe ’20 took home first place in both the radio feature and radio news reporting categories; and the crackerjack Carolina Connection weekly news team won first place for best student radio newscast. UNC students also owned television’s “Best Student Sports Category” with a first place win for 2019 graduate Cambria Haro and a second place award to 2020 alumna Caroline Bowyer. Hussman also took home first place awards in coveted group television categories for broadcasts by Carolina Week and Sports Xtra teams.

By Beth Hatcher

by Barbara Wiedemann

By Beth Hatcher
Emma Peaslee ’20 (M.A.) worked a couple of different jobs after she completed her undergraduate degree.
She worked as a legal assistant at an immigration law firm, assisted on the sets of film productions and interned at a public television station in her native Minnesota.