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Melissa Abbey and Julia Wall placed second in the writing and multimedia categories, respectively, of the Hearst individual national championships. Averi Harper finished third in television broadcast.

Hosted by the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media and the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, the Data-Crunched Democracy conference will convene practitioners, journalists, policymakers and academics on May 31 to cut through the hype and consider what is going on with the use of data in political campaigning.

For the second consecutive summer, Hussman School senior lecturer Jock Lauterer is leading discussions about community journalism at conferences, newspaper workshops and universities in China. Follow the "ol' perfesser's" adventures at his Blue Highways Journal blog.

Brendan Watson, a 2012 doctoral graduate, will receive the AEJMC’s Nafziger-White-Salwen Dissertation Award at the organization’s annual conference in Washington, D.C., in August. The award is given annually for the best dissertation in mass communication research.

May 2013 Hussman School graduate Jessica Kennedy received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship from UNC and documented Watauga County's uncertain transition from an agriculture-based economy.

Adjunct faculty member Bruce Curran’s JOMC 333 class produced a public service announcement for the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation that features recently re-discovered 25-year-old video of the original Mercury astronauts speaking at UNC after having trained at the Morehead Planetarium more than 50 years ago. 

Five faculty members, nine graduate students and three alumni will represent the school at ICA in London. Professors Sri Kalyanaraman and Daniel Kreiss earned top paper honors.

Carolina's J-school finished second overall — and first in broadcast — in the Pulitzers of college journalism. In June, six students will compete in the Hearst individual championships.

Chris Roush, senior associate dean and Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Scholar in Business Journalism, talks to CNBC about Bloomberg News' handling of the controversy surrounding access of reporters to private client information.

Susan King, dean of the J-school, discussed the government seizure of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press with WRAL-TV anchor Bill Leslie.