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The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media has updated its curriculum requirements to give students more choice and flexibility in meeting the school’s graduation requirements. The change is in response to consistent feedback the school has received from students in its annual senior survey.
 
The school will not accept any requests or appeals to drop one of the courses mentioned below because of these changes. 
 

Meredith Clark, a 2014 doctoral graduate of the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, received a divisional dissertation award at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications conference in August.

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media alumna Jacqueline Charles was honored Oct. 12, 2015, with the University’s Distinguished Alumna Award, given annually on University Day to recognize Tar Heels who have made outstanding contributions to humanity. Charles, who serves on the school’s board of advisers, is the Caribbean correspondent and senior Haiti reporter for the Miami Herald. 

UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt, journalism Dean Susan King, soccer legend Mia Hamm and "Voice of the Tar Heels" Jones Angell to help honor the iconic ESPN sports broadcaster and 1987 Carolina alumnus.

The UNC School of Media and Journalism announced a $3.25 million endowment supporting its award-winning broadcast program and honoring the late 1965 UNC alumnus John H. Stembler Jr. of Atlanta.

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation invests $3 million to launch new research center with $1 million match from UNC Provost

Bob Dotson’s stories reflect his rare approach to the news. While most reporters focus on life’s flat tires, he looks for something far more difficult to find — what keeps the other tires rolling. Dotson works the neglected streets of our cities, the small towns and dirt roads, searching for people who are practically invisible, the ones who change our lives but don’t take time to tweet and tell us about it.

UNC MJ-school students created 15 short films to tell the stories of the people and culture of the Roanoke River Valley of North Carolina for the annual Carolina Photojournalism Workshop project.

North Carolina Public Radio WUNC and the UNC School of Media and Journalism named Jess Clark its Fletcher Fellow for Education Policy Reporting.

The fifth cohort of entering students in the Master of Arts in Technology and Communication program at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media got started with orientation this week.