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Carolina journalism students and faculty are leading an experimental reporting endeavor that explores U.S. energy use.
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Capstrat Endows Scholarship at UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media

Generous gift from Evelyn Y. Davis creates scholarships for UNC-Chapel Hill journalism undergraduates  

Twenty of the school’s graduate students presented a total of 18 refereed papers at the AEJMC Southeast Colloquium March 8 – 10 in New Orleans.

The UNC-Chapel Hill student chapter of the National Press Photographers Association present PhotoNight XXXVI with Vicki Cronis, staff photographer for The Virginian-Pilot. The event is Tuesday, March 27, in Carroll Hall room 33. The presentation starts promptly at 7:30 p.m. and finishes at 9 p.m. Doors will open at 7:00 p.m.

A UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media student has won second place in the Society of American Business Editors and Writers national student business reporting contest.
Amy Thomson, who graduated in May 2006, received her award for a story she wrote in August about gun maker Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. while she was interning for Bloomberg News in its Washington bureau.

Photojournalism students and the Chapel Hill Museum are hosting 37th Frame, an annual exhibition of the best work from Carolina photojournalism students.
The exhibit began March 29 will run through May 25.

Atacama Stories, a multimedia documentary about the Chilean desert known as the driest place on Earth, won second place in the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism 2007 competition in the Best Multimedia Package category for independent sites.

Pamela Duncan, a school alumna and staff member of the North Carolina Institute for Public Health, has been awarded the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. The Institute for Public Health is a unit of the UNC School of Public Health.

Monica Hill, director of the North Carolina Scholastic Media Association, was awarded the 2007 James F. Paschal Award by the Columbia Scholastic Press Advisers Association.