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"Edge of the Sound" was selected as an Official Honoree in the 19th Annual Webby Awards and won three gold medals in the 2014 Horizon Interactive Awards.

Students in Chad A. Stevens' multimedia narratives class launched multimedia storytelling website aftertheshooting.com.

J-school students to compete in semi-final round of the 2015 American Advertising Federation's National Student Advertising Competition.

The Chapel Hill community and beyond are invited to celebrate North Carolina's fusion of Hispanic and American culture April 7 at 8 p.m.

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media seniors Carolyn Van Houten and Callaghan O'Hare placed first and fourth, respectively, in the photo picture story/series competition of the 2014-15 Hearst Journalism Awards. With the wins, UNC finished in second place of the Hearst Intercollegiate Photojournalism Competition.

Master’s Park Fellow Alasdair Wilkins is one of 12 journalism students and young journalists chosen by the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) to participate in a two-week program this summer in Germany and Poland.

Photojournalism senior Isabella Bartolucci placed third in the Hearst multimedia enterprise reporting category.

Faculty members and graduate students will represent the UNC J-school at the AEJMC Southeast Colloquium hosted by the University of Tennessee College of Communication and Information March 26-28..

David L. Cohen, executive vice president of Comcast Corp., will discuss “The Democratization of Media” at the second annual Wade H. Hargrove Media Law and Policy Colloquium on March 24 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. The event is sponsored by the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy. It is free and open to the public.

The J-school topped the Hearst Intercollegiate Broadcast Competition, and seniors Elizabeth Tew and Kristin Ruffin placed in the final Hearst TV competition.