Started in February 2000, Carolina Week is a television news broadcast created by students at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Students produce and plan all news content, supervised by faculty members.
Student reporters cover local, University and state issues to create a half-hour newscast. Carolina Week, is aired on Time Warner Cable channel 24 live at 5 p.m. Monday and Wednesday. It can also be seen on campus channels 2 and 25.
Carolina Week recently won first place in the 2009 National Broadcasting Society competition. It also won first place for a student newscast from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Many alumni become anchors, producers and other titles at broadcast news agnecies.
UNC’s student-run newscast, Carolina Week, had several segments named finalists in the College Broadcaster, Inc. National Student Production Awards.
The newscast had seven segments in five categories, and one segment was in two categories.
The station is a finalist for awards in Best Technical Production, Best Sportscast, Best Newscast, Best Special Broadcast and Best Sports Reporting.
Chapel Hill got an unexpected taste of presidential campaign hardball last week when John Edwards' presidential campaign demanded that a UNC broadcast journalism graduate student remove her story about the candidate's headquarters from YouTube.
The story, which will air on television this evening, focused on the location of the campaign's headquarters in the affluent Chapel Hill neighborhood of Southern Village.
Student body president candidates responded to a mix of serious and fun questions during Thursday's taping of "Carolina Week," the television news program produced by students of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Senior Tim Nelson moderated the debate, which six candidates attended. Write-in candidates Correy Campbell and Charlie Trakas did not attend.
