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The N.C. Scholastic Media Association (NCSMA) will host three workshops – the Chuck Stone Program for Diversity in Education and Media, the Carolina Sports Journalism Camp and the N.C. Scholastic Media Institute – during summer 2012. The Carolina Association of Black Journalists (CABJ) will hold its annual one-day workshop for minority high school journalists on Feb. 25. Registration is open for all four.

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media students took the top two spots in the multimedia competition’s features category of the Hearst Journalism Awards.

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media professor C.A. Tuggle premiered his documentary film “Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo and the Search for Identity” Jan. 17 on the UNC campus. "Las Abuelas" will screen at universities across the U.S. during the spring semester. A complete list of screenings and a trailer can be found below.

Bloomberg News has selected eight interns from the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media to work for the news service during the winter and summer semesters.
Andrea Ludtke, who graduated in December, will intern for Bloomberg in New York beginning in January. She will be joined by junior Caroline Schaberg.

Paul Cuadros' published a story in the Huffington Post about immigrants in the South and the Uniting NC movement.

Paul Cuadros' article "A Welcoming Sign to Immigrants in the South" was published in The Huffington Post.

Five UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media students have been selected for editing internships through the Dow Jones News Fund.
Each year, the prestigious program offers about 90 summer internships at newspapers and websites throughout the country. Selected students receive a paid internship, a $1,000 scholarship and a week at an “editing bootcamp.”
Here are the winners from the school and the sites of their internships in summer 2012:

J. Walker Smith, described by Fortune magazine as “one of America’s leading analysts on consumer trends,” gave the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media’s fall commencement address on Dec. 18, at 10 a.m. in the Carroll Hall auditorium.

The UNC Center for Media Law and Policy, in conjunction with the North Carolina Law Review’s symposium on “Social Networking and the Law,” will host an interdisciplinary conversation on Nov. 17 about the study of social media.

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media students accounted for 13 awards in the 66th College Photographer of the Year competition, winning gold in each multimedia category. The school’s Powering a Nation project won gold in the Large Group Multimedia Project category for the third consecutive year with “Coal: A Love Story.”