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At this year’s University Day celebration on Oct. 12, 2019, Carolina presented UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media master's alumna and former Park Fellow Nikole Hannah-Jones '03 (M.A.) with one of its 2019 Distinguished Alumna and Alumnus Awards, which honors alumni who have made outstanding contributions to humanity.

Emily Steel, a 2006 graduate of the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter with the New York Times, received one of this year’s Distinguished Young Alumni Awards from the UNC General Alumni Association on Sept. 27, 2019.

Alumnus Jordan Fieulleteau ’16, ’18 (M.A.) is a research fellow at the American Voices Project for Standford’s Center on Poverty and Inequality.

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 published or presented scholarship by UNC Hussman faculty and students.

The keynote event of the 11th annual celebration of First Amendment Day, the UNC Center of Media Law and Policy — a collaboration of the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media and the UNC School of Law — is a partnership with WUNC to produce a special live-to-tape broadcast of The State of Things on September 24 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill.

Printed on the second page of each of the 10 daily newspapers that Carolina alumnus Walter Hussman Jr. and his family own are the core values that his publications adhere to: objectivity, impartiality, integrity and truth-seeking. Those values are being embraced enthusiastically at Carolina and will serve as a driving statement behind the newly named University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media. With a $25 million gift to the school, the Hussman family is investing heavily in the future of journalism and the media professions and reinforcing those values for the next generation of media leaders being trained at Carolina.

Printed on the second page of each of the 10 daily newspapers that Carolina alumnus Walter Hussman Jr. and his family own are the core values that his publications adhere to: objectivity, impartiality, integrity and truth-seeking. Those values are being embraced enthusiastically at Carolina and will serve as a driving statement behind the newly named University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media. With a $25 million gift to the school, the Hussman family is investing heavily in the future of journalism and the media professions and reinforcing those values for the next generation of media leaders being trained at Carolina.

With these core values, the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media is positioned to help rebuild the bond between the public and the media.

 

Walter Hussman, Jr. '68 With a $25 million gift in unrestricted endowed funds, Hussman, his wife Ben and their family make a significant investment in not only students, faculty and staff at the Hussman School, but also in the future of a profession which has the power to shape the world for the better.