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Story by the UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media | Originally published June 4, 2019, on cislm.org

Story by University Development | Originally published June 4, 2019, on stories.unc.edu

Story by University Development | Originally published June 4, 2019, on stories.unc.edu

Story by University Development | Originally published June 4, 2019, on stories.unc.edu

Story by University Development | Originally published June 4, 2019, on stories.unc.edu

Megan Cain ’19 is off to San Francisco, one of 29 journalism students from across the country — and one of five from the MJ-school — to compete in the William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s 59th annual National Writing, Photojournalism, Radio, Television and Multimedia Championships June 1–6, 2019. On Tuesday, May 28, she spoke by phone with Hearst awardee Curry Kirkpatrick ’65, while he drove home to Hilton Head, South Carolina, from a Paul McCartney concert in Raleigh. Kirkpatrick, who penned iconic stories for Sports Illustrated for nearly 30 years and was recognized by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame with a Curt Gowdy Media Award in 2001, was a Hearst award winner in 1963 and 1964. This interview has been condensed and edited.

Story by the UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media | Originally published May 29, 2019, on cislm.org

Story by the University Gazette | Originally published May 29, 2019, on gazette.unc.edu

The 2019 win marks eight intercollegiate national championships for the MJ-school and its fourth in only five years — the most of any of the more than 100 accredited programs in the country. Additionally, all five MJ-school finalists placed in the Top 3 for their respective categories: Alex Kormann '19 won first place in the national photojournalism championship; Megan Cain '19 won second place and Brighton McConnell '19 won third place in the national radio broadcast news championship; and Darian Murphy Woehr '19 won first place and Abby Cantrell '20 won third place in the national multimedia championship.

Nine graduate students, 10 faculty members and five alumni will represent the UNC School of Media and Journalism May 24-28, 2019, at the 69th annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA).