News

UNC School of Media and Journalism student Wei Zhou was awarded an Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar Award at the foundation’s 2016 Annual Scholar Awards Luncheon held at the Yale Club in New York City.

The UNC School of Media and Journalism placed first overall in the 2015-16 Hearst Journalism Awards Intercollegiate Broadcast Competition.

The UNC School of Media and Journalism seeks a Lecturer/Director to join its faculty and to direct and expand its highly successful Reese News Lab.

UNC School of Media and Journalism alumna Isabella Bartolucci '15 was named the 2016 Student Video Photographer of the Year by The White House News Photographers Association.

Students in assistant professor Adam Saffer’s advertising and public relations research course are working with five organizations this semester to research market trends, better understand target audiences and assess the organizations' message.

A dozen students and faculty from the MJ-school will be attending this year’s Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Southeast Colloquium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, March 3-6, 2016.

The MJ-school is partnering with HBO and the Carolina Union to host a free pre-screening on March 2 at 8 p.m. of three episodes from HBO’s Emmy-winning documentary series VICE. Free swag and food.

Carolyn Van Houten, a 2014 UNC School of Media and Journalism graduate, was named the 2015 Newspaper Photographer of the Year in the 73rd annual Pictures of the Year International (POYi) competition.

Five MJ-school students and the staff of Carolina Connection won awards in the Broadcast Education Association's Festival of Media Arts.

Brooke Erin Duffy, assistant professor in the School of Media and Communication at Temple University, will discuss her forthcoming book, “Gender and Aspirational Labor in the Social Media Economy,” on Wednesday, March 2, at 10 a.m. in the Halls of Fame room in Carroll Hall.