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National Public Radio newscaster Carl Kasell will speak at a free public discussion on April 16 at 5:30 p.m. in the Genome Sciences Building on the UNC campus.

Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics Penny Abernathy remembers Roy Parker Jr., a 1952 Carolina J-school grad and 1999 N.C. Journalism Hall of Fame inductee, in this letter to the faculty.

Assistant professor Paul Cuadros won the faculty award given by the UNC Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs for his outreach to the Latina/o community.

UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication junior Madeline Will was named one of nine winners of the Scripps Howard Foundation’s annual Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition.

The UNC journalism school and Capitol Broadcasting Company’s WRAL-TV hosted 11 graduating college seniors March 13-17 to help them land a first job and be prepared to advance in the broadcast news industry.

Carolyn Van Houten and Julysa Sosa placed first and second, respectively in the picture story/series category in the Hearst photojournalism competition.

The UNC Hussman School is conducting a survey to help improve users’ experience on its website (jomc.unc.edu). By completing the short survey, the school will gain valuable insight into its Web presence and you will be entered to win one of a handful of Amazon gift cards.

J-school students won three awards — two for "100 Gallons" — in the multimedia categories of the 2013 National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism contest. 

"Living Galápagos," an interactive multimedia website produced by UNC journalism students, won in the student category of the SXSW Interactive Awards— the second year in a row that Carolina has won the award.

Averi Harper, a senior and “Carolina Week” co-anchor from New York, placed first in the television broadcast news category of the Hearst Journalism Awards.