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by Barbara Wiedemann
Washington Post political reporter, UNC Hussman alumnus and Board of Advisers member Eugene Scott ’03 writes about identity politics for The Fix. We spoke with him about a journalist’s role at this moment in history.

by Barbara Wiedemann
Founded in 1992, the Sports Journalism Institute’s (SJI) fellowship program for minorities and women seeks to diversify sports journalism by training and then placing select students into internships. Sixteen students make up SJI’s class of 2020, including UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media student Landon Bost ’21, a Harrisburg, North Carolina, native. Bost just returned from the program’s weeklong sports journalism boot camp that began on June 1. It was held remotely — thanks to coronavirus health concerns — rather than at the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

By Grace Lamb-Atkinson
UNC Hussman already swept the overall 2020 Hearst Awards, winning the national championship, but now the finalist students have made the school even more proud with their strong showing in the individual national championships last weekend.

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media Dean Susan King sent the message below to our student and alumni communities this week. 
Dear Hussman students,

By Grace Lamb-Atkinson
 
UPDATE (June 6, 2020): The five UNC Hussman students competing for individual national championships all had strong showings. Annabeth Poe and Payton Tysinger won national championships while Cambria Haro and Jared Weber placed third in their respective categories. Lucas Pruitt finished as a runner-up in the multimedia category. Updated story to come. 
 

Students from the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media scored major wins in the Society of Professional Journalists 2019 Mark of Excellence awards with first place winners and finalist honors in the national contest, which recognizes collegiate work published or broadcasted during 2019.

by Barbara Wiedemann
In Aprll 2020, sports writers Jonathan Eig and Jeff Pearlman started a student writing contest called The Big Scribble. Contestants would hear back from six established writers on their entries over five weeks. Top winners got the opportunity to consult with different well-known writers. Confined by the coronavirus to do their reporting and writing from childhood bedrooms and family basements, over four hundred quarantined students answered the call and took on the first Big Scribble assignment on April 20. Three students represented UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media in the group of 160 students from around the world who made it through the first of the competition’s five weekly rounds: Parth Upadhyaya ’20, Elizabeth Moore ’22 and Hannah Towey ’21. Towey made to the Top Ten.

The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media recognized faculty and staff for a commitment to excellence and contributions to the school community. The 2020 faculty and staff excellence awards were presented Wednesday, May 6, 2020, in a virtual school-wide meeting of faculty and staff.