Doctoral student recognized for outstanding journalism history research

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media doctoral student Laura Marshall won two awards, including Outstanding Paper on Media and War, at the annual American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA) conference Oct. 9-11 in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Marshall, a second-year Roy H. Park Doctoral Fellow and a 2013 master’s alumna, won for her paper “Wartime Orchestration of Health Communication: North Carolina’s Good Health Plan.” The paper also received Honorable Mention for Outstanding Student Paper.

AJHA was founded in 1981 to foster research and teaching of journalism history. Associate professor Barbara Friedman and doctoral alumna Kathy Roberts Forde are stepping down after their four-year terms as editor and associate editor, respectively, of American Journalism, AJHA’s flagship publication.