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Even in a virtual environment, the career services staff at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media is still connecting students to the real-world experiences that lead them to job opportunities and career success. This fall, UNC Hussman Career Services held its annual student-to-student internship fair virtually with a panel of students who shared their internship experiences and answered questions about the ins and outs of finding internships, as well as navigating the unique challenges of interning remotely.

Led by junior Rachel Crumpler, a team of four UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media undergraduate students in Associate Professor Ryan Thornburg's fall “Advanced Data Reporting” class have uncovered a nearly decade-long decline in funding for local public health departments across the state of North Carolina.

by Barbara Wiedemann
Three UNC Hussman scholars with expertise in digital political communication — Deen Freelon, Daniel Kreiss and Shannon McGregor — continue to be called on by media sources across the country to weigh in and provide context on-air and in print for the lightning-quick changes taking place in the social media sphere in reaction to the violent calls, either directly on social platforms or amplified there, to overtake the United States Capitol and disrupt the Electoral College vote count on January 6. 

A vibrant and collaborative interdisciplinary research culture at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media creates new knowledge, advances scholarship and helps reinvent media.

Democracy is fragile, and its lifeblood is a robust and independent media.Yesterday when the Capitol, a symbol of our nation’s great democracy, was breached, journalists proved why our Founding Fathers believed in the need for the First Amendment, a free press and journalists who would hold power accountable.

by Barbara Wiedemann
UNC Hussman Associate Professor Daniel Kreiss and Ph.D. student Bridget Barrett were two of six panelists at a December “Digital Technology, Social Media and the 2020 Presidential Election” conference held by Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center (CPC) to explore the effect of digital technologies on the 2020 election. 

UNC Hussman graduate Sharif Durhams ’99 will return to his home state of North Carolina this spring to lead the newsrooms of two of North Carolina’s most consequential newspapers – Raleigh’s News & Observer and Durham’s Herald-Sun.

As Penny Abernathy retires as the Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media after 12 years, she says she is most proud of how her experience, knowledge and dogged truth-seeking have come together at Carolina in one serendipitous role – teacher.

A profile of entrepreneurial UNC Hussman Kaitlyn Kumi ’21 and her women's empowerment fashion-lifestlye brand Miss EmpowHer.

by Barbara Wiedemann
UNC Hussman Teaching Assistant Professor Livis Freeman and his fall  “Public Relations Campaigns” class took on UNC live mascot Rameses and his longtime family of caretakers at Hogan’s Magnolia View Farms as a client. Thanks to the students’ proposals, the family sees a lot of new opportunities for working with the young ram that Ann Hogan Leonard describes as “just so good and so very gentle, he just took so well to the training.”