News

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Board of Governors have approved a business journalism undergraduate major that will begin in the 2011-12 academic year.
The major will be offered by the Hussman School of Journalism and Media and the Kenan-Flagler Business School.

A newspaper and website for residents of Northeast Central Durham is beginning its second year of operation, thanks to a growing coalition of sponsors and community partners.

Two UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media projects have been selected as finalists in the student category of the SXSW Interactive Awards presented by Adobe.

Reviewing a new sportfishing boat's performance. Covering a 100-year-old skeet club's annual competition. Running with the bulls in Pamplona. Or...what would be your dream story to see published?

Lauren Ratcliffe, a senior double major in journalism and political science from Charlotte, and Lauren Russell, a junior journalism major from Wilmington, N.C., will intern at China.org.cn in Beijing this summer.

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh will give a free, public lecture at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 15, in Gerrard Hall on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus.
(Download event flier.)

Megan Camm, second-year master’s student and Roy H. Park Fellow, was selected as a recipient of an Overseas Press Club Foundation scholarship.
Camm is pursuing a career in international reporting with a focus on human rights issues in Africa. She wrote her winning essay on researching land conflict in eastern Congo this past summer.

Isabel Wilkerson, former national correspondent and bureau chief at The New York Times and the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism, will discuss her new book, "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration," at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Friday, Feb.

Carolina J-school junior Michael Tomsic of Wilmington, N.C., placed second in the radio broadcast competition of the Hearst Journalism Awards.
He earns a $2,000 award and qualifies for the national broadcast news championship competition in June 2011.
Reema Khrais,  a junior from Chapel Hill, placed sixth in the competition.

Carolina photojournalism seniors Arkasha Stevenson and Jessey Dearing placed second and fourth, respectively, in the November 2010 photojournalism competition of the Hearst Journalism Awards Program, known as the Pulitzers of collegiate journalism.
Their work was selected from among 88 entries submitted from 53 schools nationwide. Dearing and Stevenson both qualify for the national semi-final round of judging next May.