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Recent Hussman School alumna CB Cotton '16 named 2017 Michele Clark Fellow

November 28, 2017

CB Cotton, a 2016 graduate of the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, has been named the 2017 Michele Clark Fellow by the Radio Television Digital News Foundation — marking the latest in a string of accomplishments for the Hussman School alumna.

Cotton was named this year's Clark Fellow on Thursday, Nov. 16, making her one of 12 students and new professionals to earn a scholarship or fellowship through the Foundation. The Clark Fellowship is awarded annually to a young, promising minority professional in television or radio news. 

Winners of the Clark Fellowship earns a $1,000 award and an invitation to the "Excellence in Journalism" conference, co-hosted annually by the Radio Television Digital News Association and the Society of Professional Journalists.

While studying at UNC, Cotton was a reporter and anchor for "Carolina Week" and co-created the school's first morning show, "Wake Up, Carolina!" She also served as an Hussman School Ambassador.

The honors came early and often for Cotton, who earned the WTVD Endowment Scholarship in 2014; the Reese Felts Scholarship in 2015; and the Earl Wynn Creative Broadcasting Award in 2016. She also won the 2016 Hearst Journalism Award in the Television II: News category in January and the Hearst National Championship in Television News in June.

Before graduating from UNC, she interned with NBC/KNTV in San Francisco and with ABC 11/WTVD's investigative team. In March 2016, she was selected for the CBC-UNC Diversity Fellowship at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, one of a dozen students chosen for the workshop.

Cotton currently works in her hometown as the Jacksonville Bureau Chief for NBC's WITN in Eastern North Carolina.