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Story by University Development | Originally published Aug. 2, 2016, on stories.unc.edu

Story by University Development | Originally published Aug. 2, 2016, on stories.unc.edu

Students from the UNC School of Media and Journalism took home 27 awards — the biggest haul of awards from any one university — from the Society for News Design's student contest. This is the sixth consecutive year that MJ-school students have won the most awards in the annual student design competition.

Kate O'Brian, president of Al Jazeera America, will join the faculty of the UNC School of Media and Journalism as a Hearst Visiting Professor. With a background in digital platforms, television, radio and investigative reporting, O'Brian will teach Media Hub, a capstone course in the MJ-school.

Twenty-nine students traveled to Brazil with the UNC School of Media and Journalism to cover the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in partnership with the Olympic News Service and the University of Memphis.

Nine graduate students, 12 faculty members and 48 alumni will represent the UNC School of Media and Journalism Aug. 4–7, 2016, at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) national convention in Minneapolis.

In this Start Here / Never Stop Podcast episode, Dean Susan King has the opportunity to speak with alumnus Aaron Dodson '15, who has made his way from the MJ-school to The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post and now The Undefeated — ESPN's premier platform for exploring the intersections of race, sports and culture.

Jean Folkerts, dean emeritus of the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media — now a visiting professor and scholar at the A.Q. Miller Hussman School of Journalism and Medias at Kansas State University — has won the 2016 Sidney Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History.
Folkerts served as dean of the UNC Hussman School from 2005-11.

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media Professor Seth Noar has been named the 2016 Outstanding Health Communication Scholar by the National Communication Association (NCA).
Noar will be recognized for the honor at NCA’s annual conference in Philadelphia on Friday, Nov. 11, 2016. The award comes just months after Noar received the Lewis Donohew Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award at the biennial Kentucky Conference on Health Communication in Lexington, Kentucky. 

The UNC School of Media and Journalism announced today that Capitol Broadcasting Company (CBC) will support two national media diversity initiatives administered by the school. Capitol Broadcasting's gift will support the Chuck Stone Program for Diversity in Education and Media and the CBC-UNC Diversity Fellowship Program over the next four years.