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The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media hosted a remarkable event Saturday, Nov. 16, launching its partnership with the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting. The program featured the society’s co-founders Nikole Hannah-Jones ’03 (M.A.), domestic correspondent at The New York Times Magazine and creator of The 1619 Project, and Ron Nixon, international investigations editor at the Associated Press. UNC Hussman Dean Susan King hosted the event with Calvin Hall, department chair and associate professor in the Department of Mass Communication at North Carolina Central University. The third co-founder, ProPublica reporter Topher Sanders, sent in a video greeting from a current investigative reporting trip in Mexico.

UNC Hussman and the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense demonstrated the power of collaboration within the UNC community this week with a joint lecture on national intelligence and reporting. UNC Hussman faculty member Adam Hochberg moderated a discussion between Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative reporter Mark Mazzetti and Adm. Dennis Blair, the Knott Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Practice in the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense. Blair and Mazzetti gave students a behind-the-scenes look at the sometimes opposing viewpoints of intelligence and journalism communities on national security stories.

Public relations executive Julie “Jules” Dixon ‘91 gave UNC Hussman students valuable insight into the communications field with a week in residence as a Barry Saunders Visiting Professional in November. The program, which was established in 2018 by an anonymous donor to honor the longtime former News & Observer columnist, brings top professionals in residence at UNC Hussman to connect and interact with students, sharing diverse perspectives from industry.

Alumna Julie "Jules" Dixon '91 is an NC Media & Journalism Hall of Fame publicist and a senior communications strategist with over 28 years of top-tier expertise in crisis communications, social media relations, sports marketing, integrated marketing, entertainment, corporate communications, internal communications and diversity/inclusion recruitment.

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.
Below is a list of recently presented scholarship by UNC Hussman faculty and students, including Park doctoral fellow Jordan Morehouse (right), who presented an award-winning paper at the NCA Convention.

Do you know how to spot fake news, work with artificial intelligence and report with automated data? Those are all new skills that today’s journalists need as they embark on their careers. Three top Bloomberg News journalists gave UNC Hussman students their insights and tips on reporting with technology during a workshop on innovation and news on Friday.

The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting will launch its partnership with UNC Hussman with a thoughtful conversation with some of America’s leading investigative reporters on Saturday, Nov. 16.

Don't miss The Well's feature on students juggling graduate degrees and jobs, including Hussman online master's students and communications pros Kasha Ely ’14 and Jack Rodenfels. They talk about their experiences as Hussman grad students and how the program has helped them in their jobs at Carolina.

UNC-Chapel Hill’s student body has once again received honors from the nation’s most prestigious academic society. Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most honored academic society in America, inducted 162 UNC Chapel Hill students as new members last week. One of this year's inductees comes from UNC Hussman: Claire Cathleen Maloney ’20, a media and journalism major and a history minor.

by Barbara Wiedemann
A cutting-edge classroom installed this summer in 58 Carroll Hall is piloting “AVoverIP” — the first classroom on Carolina’s campus to receive all audio and video over the network. It contains the largest screen in our school — 220-inch, with a native 4K projector — and five separate displays which can present unique content controlled by the room’s instructor or by groups of students. The classroom is a prototype for the new Curtis Media Center’s high-tech, flexible space solutions. Construction on the Curtis Media Center is underway thanks to a $10 million gift from the Curtis Foundation to build a state-of-the-art media center and fund immersive learning experiences for UNC Hussman students.