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The N.C. Scholastic Media Association will host three summer workshops in 2013. The Carolina Association of Black Journalists will hold its annual one-day workshop for minority high school journalists on Feb. 23. Register now.

The N.C. Scholastic Media Association and the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication will host three summer journalism workshops for high school students in 2013. Register now.

Kathryn Carlson, a photojournalism major from Winston-Salem, N.C., placed third in the narrative multimedia storytelling features category of the Hearst Journalism Awards. 

Professor Cathy Packer and four UNC media law Ph.D. alumni contributed chapters for the recently published “Social Media and the Law: A Guidebook for Communication Students and Professionals.”

Michael Rodriguez, a senior electronic communication major, placed fifth in the radio broadcast category of the Hearst Journalism Awards and is eligible to compete in the Hearst national championships held in San Francisco in June.

I woke up on the morning of Wednesday, November 7th, ready to head to the university to continue to mold young minds and train the next wave of broadcast journalists...
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2012 was a great year for the UNC J-school. We started off by welcoming a new dean and ended the year with fall commencement with professor Jane Brown, who retires at the end of the year. See some of what happened in between. 

In the context of the Newtown shootings, associate professor Lois Boynton talks in The Washington Free Beacon about the collision of journalistic values to report news accurately and to report it quickly.

The UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Capitol Broadcasting Company’s WRAL-TV are working together to help increase diversity in the broadcasting industry. The CBC-UNC Diversity Fellowship Program begins spring 2013.

A three-part series on North Carolina state parks, produced by UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication students and narrated by professor Tom Linden, aired on UNC-TV’s “North Carolina Now.”