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UNC journalism students led the nation with national winners in four categories of the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards recognizing collegiate work published or broadcasted during 2009.

The school rewarded top students and faculty with nearly $200,000 in scholarships and awards at its annual honors convocation on April 26.
Outstanding graduating seniors in each specialization were recognized as were outstanding graduate students.

Rick Brewer, Dot Jackson, Ray Shaw and Larry Stogner will be inducted into the N.C. Halls of Fame on April 11.
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Registration for fall semester is ongoing.
Check out the fall class offerings and schedule.
Be sure read the course details document. This provides valuable information including which classes have prerequisites or restricted enrollment, and for which ones you need to sign up in the school's student services/student records office.

Registration for the fall 2010 semester is ongoing. Check out the lists of course offerings and schedule information.
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Can quality community journalism endure in an age when traditional print advertising revenue is being lost to electronic media outlets?  UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media professor Penny Muse Abernathy, Knight Chair of Journalism and Digital Media Economics, believes that it can, and should, thrive.

Students and faculty are winning national and regional honors for their work.

Monty Cook, senior vice president and editor of The Baltimore Sun and baltimoresun.com, will join the Carolina faculty April 1. He will lead an experimental digital news and audience research initiative designed to help news organizations adapt to the new media environment.
Cook talks about his vision for the project.
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Monty Cook, senior vice president and editor of The Baltimore Sun and baltimoresun.com, joined the Hussman School of Journalism and Media faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill April 1. He lead an experimental digital news and audience research initiative designed to help news organizations adapt to the new media environment.

March 23 event will feature Emmy-winning husband-wife multimedia team of Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber.
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