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The Daily Tar Heel is featuring UNC Hussman's Career Peers program, launched this fall. Chelsea Ramsey reports on the three Hussman students currently leading the program, all of whom specialize in different areas of journalism and media. Seniors Isabel Hewgley, Alice Lim and Niki Suchy will mentor other students, offer professional advice and organize events like the upcoming student-to-student internship fair.

by Barbara Wiedemann
UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media graduate Anu Anand ’95 was one of six University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduates to receive a 2020 UNC Chapel Hill Distinguished Alumna and Alumnus Award in a virtual ceremony held on University Day, Monday, October 12. Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz presided over the presentation.

Bland is the new director of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media. Co-founded by award-winning journalists Nikole Hannah-Jones (M.A. ’03), Ron Nixon and Topher Sanders, the society seeks to increase the ranks, retention and profile of reporters and editors of color in the field of investigative reporting.

When UNC Hussman adopted its new name in 2019 it also enshrined core values on the wall of its school: impartiality, integrity, objectivity and truth-seeking.

A new $2.23 million Knight Foundation investment will support the UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local News and Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative.

by Barbara Wiedemann
UNC Hussman AssociateProfessor Deen Freelon joined forces with UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Dean Gary Marchionini and SILS Associate Professor Zeynep Tufekci for a powerful discussion on Sept. 30 around misinformation and disinformation in today’s society.

Dean Susan King calls this year’s seniors “the resilient class.” Throughout UNC Hussman’s transition to remote learning, UNC Hussman faculty and staff have noticed one theme: students helping students. Now, UNC Hussman Career Services is channeling that spirit into a new program: Career Peers.

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.

As UNC Hussman journalism students prepare for a vastly changed industry, they heard from a leader of a newsroom that looks a lot like the future. Abby Johnston, the deputy editor of The 19th*, joined Teaching Associate Professor Lindsay King’s broadcast journalism class this week to speak about nonprofit, gender-focused journalism with a digital business model and network of reporters who were scattered across the country even before the pandemic hit.