James "Jim" H. Wallace Jr., a former DTH photographer and critical photojournalist of the civil rights movement in Chapel Hill, died on June 14. Friends and colleagues remember him for his distinct talent and keen creative vision.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and UNC graduate, spoke with UNC professor Jim Leloudis about her career, creating The 1619 Project and the current social justice movement in a webinar held Wednesday.
The FBI issued a warning in March about the practice of "Zoombombings," where uninvited users hijack and disrupt teleconferences, often with offensive or racist images and language. UNC has not gone unaffected. Students in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media class MEJO 584: International Projects held a live premiere of their final project on April 29. Students say their Q&A session, hosted on Zoom, was interrupted by unidentified users — including a naked man — who screamed the n-word multiple times and that “no one f------ cares.”
This week, Dean Susan King of the Hussman School of Media and Journalism was named the 2019 Scripps Howard Administrator of the Year, recognizing her excellence in journalism and communication administration. King plans to use the award's monetary prize to fund extracurricular opportunities for Hussman students.
The Hussman School of Journalism and Media is getting rid of its business journalism major.
The Reese News Lab and Emerging Technologies Lab have merged to form the Reese Innovation Lab, which combines journalistic, computer science and business disciplines to implement new, technologically-enhanced journalistic solutions like augmented reality, virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
A group of journalism students is fighting to revamp McCorkle Place by campaigning for art that recognizes the history of the location.
Hussman emerged victorious – erasing his rival’s newsroom and creating a bitterness toward Hussman among its former staffers that persists to this day.
Here's what the future of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media business journalism major will look like and what people have to say about it.
The University of North Carolina Athletics Department held its dedication ceremony for the newly opened Carolina Athletics Media and Communication Center on Friday.
Following the resignation of Chris Roush, former director of UNC's business journalism major, the Hussman School of Journalism and Media currently has not issued a replacement. Dean Susan King of the school shares her thoughts on the future of the program and how current students in the program are affected.
The School of Media and Journalism is now the the UNC-Chapel Hill Hussman School of Journalism and Media, following a $25 million gift from Walter and Ben Hussman.
It doesn't take a clunky, old video camera to tell a hard-hitting and compelling story. All you really need is the device that's already in your pocket. And the School of Media and Journalism plans to capitalize on that device: your smartphone.
Carol Wolf, a UNC professor is embarking on a journey to teach personal finance to North Carolina students who may not know how to handle their fiscal assets in a more understandable way.
The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting is coming to the UNC School of Media and Journalism to highlight diversity in the journalism field, which is often white-dominated. This program, started by three veteran journalists, aims to hold its first workshop in November. All media and journalism students are welcome and encouraged to attend.
In response to the meteoric rise of big tech, UNC has created The Center for Information, Technology and Public Life. It will take a look at issues like fake news, interference in elections and privacy concerns.
“What Jodi is doing with this excavation is reshaping the way we think about Judaism in this historical period,” Rhinehart said, “which is also crazy to think about that you’re a part of her historically changing research.”
“There you are, I’ve been waiting.” UNC students and leaders are closing the books on an excavation series in Huqoq, Isreal, but not without immense success.
MEJO 584: Documentary Multimedia Storytelling is a semester-long course in which students developed a multimedia project surrounding the stories of Venezuelan migrants in Medellín, Colombia. Their project debuted on Tuesday.
It's no secret that Americans have lost trust in the media, as several big polls show. But one event tried to change that.
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