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Arkasha Stevenson, a December 2010 photojournalism graduate, was named N.C. Press Photographers Association's 2011 College Photographer of the Year Sunday, March 20, in Asheville, N.C., at the NCPPA’s annual meeting.

Bill Cloud, who teaches editing at the school, is this year’s winner of the Glamann Award from the American Copy Editors Society.
Cloud is being honored for nearly 30 years in the classroom at the school and for his work with ACES since the organization was founded. In both roles, he has been a strong advocate for the need for editing.

Joseph Mitchell, Roy Park Jr., Gene Price, Chuck Stone, Ed Williams and Clarence Whitefield were inducted into the N.C. Halls of Fame in Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations during an April 10 ceremony in Chapel Hill. Bill Goodwyn and David Oakley received Next Generation Leadership Awards.

Students in the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media have been named finalists in 15 categories of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Region 2 Mark of Excellence Awards.
The actual places awarded will be announced at the region’s Mark of Excellence Luncheon at the spring conference, April 8-9, in Norfolk, Va.
The finalists are listed, by category, below. UNC competes in the 4-year university category of the Mark of Excellence Awards.

Two multimedia projects produced by students at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media – Powering a Nation and Living Galapagos – were recognized in the Society for News Design’s (SND) 2010 Best of Digital News Design competition.

Carolina photojournalism seniors Margaret Cheatham Williams and Arkasha Stevenson placed first and second, respectively, in the multimedia competition’s features category of the 51st annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program, known as the Pulitzers of collegiate journalism.

The N.C. Scholastic Media Association (NCSMA), based in the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, has named Charles D. Owen High School journalist Janie Sircey the 2010 Rachel Rivers-Coffey North Carolina High School Journalist of the Year. Sircey serves as editor of her high school newspaper, The Hoofbeat, in Black Mountain, N.C.

David Kirkpatrick, best-selling author of “The Facebook Effect,” will give the school’s Roy H. Park Distinguished Lecture on April 7 at 5:30 p.m. in the Carroll Hall auditorium.

Jane D. Brown, James L. Knight Distinguished Professor in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media, is one of six employees selected by Chancellor Holden Thorp to receive 2011 C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Awards, one of the most coveted distinctions the University gives faculty and staff.