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UNC Research's Endeavors (which tells stories powered by research) spoke with Hussman PhD student Alex Kresovich. A successful music producer, Kresovich came to UNC to study how popular music with references to mental health affects populations with mental health disorders.

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media alumna, faculty member and longtime board member Merrill Rose died January 28, 2020 in New York City.

UNC Hussman lecturer David Francis’ students heard from Ran Northam, a public information officer with the Town of Chapel Hill, bright and early on Tuesday, January 28, in their 8 a.m. “Writing and Reporting” class in Carroll Hall. Northam, an Appalachian State graduate with previous experience as a studio producer and news and sports director at Chapel Hill radio station WCHL, has been working with the Chapel Hill police department and fire rescue teams since 2014 and currently acts as community safety communications specialist, the first non-sworn P.I.O. working in conjunction with the town’s police and fire departments.

The NC Media & Journalism Hall of Fame will induct five game-changing industry leaders at the group’s annual gala on Friday, April 3, 2020, at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill.

As professional media organizations are challenged to innovate constantly to keep up with the digital world, UNC Hussman is engaged with the future of education and the journalism, public relations and advertising industries through groundbreaking research and projects.

The UNC Graduate School’s Diversity and Student Success program is highlighting Hussman's Dana Anthony as a Carolina Grad F1RSTS featured scholar.

UNC Hussman Dean Susan King joined WFAE’s Charlotte Talks show to discuss local media in the digital age.

Carolina Covenant Scholar Patsy Montesinos ’21 was named one of five ProPublica Emerging Reporters for the 2019–2020 school year. In its fifth year, the nonprofit newsroom’s program, which aims to lower barriers to investigative journalism for college journalists from diverse backgrounds, gave Montesinos three days to network and learn from reporters in their native habitat: newsrooms at The New York Times, Buzzfeed, WNYC and ProPublica. The program also paired Montesinos with ProPublica’s Emmy Award and Edward R. Murrow award-winning filmmaker and journalist Katie Campbell, providing the Hussman junior with $9,000 in seed money to produce a video on immigration and family dynamics which she pitched last fall and plans to finish this summer under Campbell’s tutelage. As a ProPublica Emerging Reporter, Montesinos will also have the opportunity to attend the 2020 NICAR Conference devoted to data journalism this March in New Orleans.

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.