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For close to two decades now as a producer for CBS’ “60 Minutes,” 11-time Emmy award-winning Draggan Mihailovich ’83 has been tracking down and telling stories for a living.

Check out UNC School of Media and Journalism Professor Daniel Riffe's latest Research Conversations podcast episode with Academic Dean Francesca Dillman Carpentier.

After deliberation in the wake of disclosures of sexual misconduct by journalist Charlie Rose, a committee of faculty, staff and North Carolina media and journalism industry leaders decided to amend Rose’s NC Media and Journalism Hall of Fame biography to include the professional consequences of the widely-reported behavior.

UNC School of Media and Journalism Professor Seth Noar led a team of researchers who analyzed the increase in skin cancer awareness generated by a single viral Facebook post. 

Listen in to the Start Here / Never Stop Podcast with MJ-school Dean Susan King and alumnus Parth Shah '15, current producer at NPR's podcast and radio show Hidden Brain and a former NPR Kroc Fellow.

After 30 years of teaching media law, Cathy Packer will retire at the end of the Fall 2017 semester.

Story by UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media Communication Manager Madeline Brown

A vibrant and collaborative interdisciplinary research culture at the UNC School of Media and Journalism creates new knowledge, advances scholarship and helps reinvent media.

Listen in to the Start Here / Never Stop Podcast with MJ-school Dean Susan King and alumna Rachel McMahan '17 (M.A.), the first-ever graduate of the UNC Environment and Science Communication dual-degree program.

Vanity Fair columnist James Wolcott recognized alumna Emily Steel ’06 and her New York Times colleagues Michael Schmidt, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey for their ongoing investigative reporting on systemic sexual misconduct issues.