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

A video series about environmental challenges in western Carolina will air in April 2019 on North Carolina Public Television. The stories were produced by students in the UNC School of Media and Journalism in collaboration with UNC-TV’s science program, Sci NC.

Phi Beta Kappa, the prestigious academic honorary society founded in 1776, recently inducted nine students from the UNC School of Media and Journalism as new members.

Lecturer Marshele Carter was nominated for the 2019 APPLES Teaching Excellence Award by students, faculty and community partners.

Story by The Daily Tar Heel | Originally published March 28, 2019, on dailytarheel.com

Alumna Anu Anand '95 is the host of Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service, a global business program produced jointly by Marketplace and the BBC. 

Being funny full-time is a serious business. Just ask UNC School of Media and Journalism alumnus Alexander Trowbridge ’09, a producer at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, whose journey to the Ed Sullivan Theater is filled with restless ambition and more than a dollop of drive. It should be noted that his workplace is No. 1. The CBS network's late night comedy show averages 692,000 viewers nightly in the coveted 18–49 age group, putting it just ahead of the competition, The Hollywood Reporter noted earlier this month.

Story by Innovate Carolina | Originally published March 22, 2019, on innovate.unc.edu

Alumnus Allen Bosworth '81 is currently the president at EP+Co, an award-winning integrated marketing firm residing in New York and South Carolina. He has worked for the last 30 years front-lining the business side of the firm.

Allen M. Bosworth IV ’81 is a President at EP+Co, an award-winning integrated marketing firm recently named one of Ad Age’s 2019 “A-List” honorees. As a brash 28-year old with a graduate degree in PR and ad agency experience at DMB&B (now Saatchi) under his belt, the UNC School of Media and Journalism graduate helped build the creative agency with an old high school friend and his wife in South Carolina. At Erwin Penland, the agency’s moniker before a 2017 rebrand, Bosworth served in various leadership roles including director of client services and chief operating officer before being named president in 2016. 
A longtime supporter of the MJ-school, Bosworth recently made a significant commitment to the university’s Campaign for Carolina, enhancing an existing MJ-school fund, The Leigh and William F. Goodwyn Family Expendable FashionMash Fund.