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C.A. “Charlie” Tuggle has received the 2011 Edward L. Bliss Award for Distinguished Broadcast Journalism Education.

The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media finished first overall in the Intercollegiate Competition of the Hearst Journalism Awards, often called the Pulitzers of college journalism, for the second year in a row. The win was announced during a June 8 ceremony in San Francisco.

N.C. Scholastic Media Association will host its annual four-day journalism Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill June 13-16.
All interested high school students and their teachers are encouraged to participate. The Monday-through-Thursday workshop is designed to teach creative and efficient ways to communicate through high school newspapers, yearbooks, literary magazines and broadcasts.

Four UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media public relations students were recognized at the North Carolina Public Relations Society of America (NCPRSA) 2011 Inspire Awards dinner on May 11.  The students – Amy Dobrzynski, Stacy Merrick, Hannah Harrill and Elizabeth Graper – received an Award of Excellence for their grassroots campaign "Grow Your Green" designed to educate women on financial literacy.

Susan King is one of four candidates invited to campus by the search committee for the Dean of the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media.
You are invited to attend an open forum with her on Tuesday, May 31, from 2:45 – 3:30 p.m. in in the Pleasants Family Room in Wilson Library.

The school's new online Master of Arts in Technology and Communication had a 100 percent acceptance rate for its inaugural group of students, who will start their coursework in August.

Steven King, editor and director of video at The Washington Post, will join the faculty at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media on July 1 to teach multimedia courses.

“Powering a Nation” – the UNC News21 project about U.S.

John Clark, WRAL.com general manager, is joining the faculty at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media on July 1 to lead the school's Reese Felts digital news and audience research project.

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media students won top honors in four categories of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) national Mark of Excellence Awards given for work published in 2010.