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Daren Brabham was interviewed for Inside Higher Ed about crowdsourcing projects determined to discover more about the salaries and working conditions about adjuncts.

Alan Murray, deputy managing editor and executive editor for online at The Wall Street Journal, spoke with Dean Susan King in the Carolina News Studio on March 27, 2012. Murray, a 1977 UNC graduate, spoke the night before at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School as part of the Dean's Speaker Series. In his conversation with King, he talked about his responsibilities for WSJ's digital properties. Murray also gave insight into the Journal's video operations and the skills needed by young journalists.

Heelprint Communications, the J-school's student-run creative communications agency, has landed its first major contract – with Cherokee, a private equity firm that specializes in brownfield redevelopment and invests in high-impact environmental business models.

Helene Cooper, White House correspondent for The New York Times, gave the Nelson Benton Lecture at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication on March 20. Her talk was titled "Covering the President."

Frank Daniels III, Bill Green, Karen L. Parker, Gary Pearce, Donald Shaw, John Skipper and J. Walker Smith will be inducted into the N.C. Halls of Fame in Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations during an April 15 ceremony in Chapel Hill.

Chris Roush published his article "Investigating Private Companies: A Quick and Dirty Guide" in The IRE Journal.

Legendary sportswriter, N.C. Journalism Hall of Fame member and 1938 UNC journalism graduate Furman Bisher died Sunday, March 18, 2012. He was 93.

Megan Camm, a master’s student in the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, was selected as one of 13 journalism students chosen by Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) to participate in a two-week program in New York, Germany and Poland in May.

Anne Johnston was interviewed for NPR about the presidentional biographical film tradition and its transformation from the Eisenhower campaign to recent candidates.