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Susan King, vice president for external affairs for Carnegie Corporation of New York, will become the next dean of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hussman School of Journalism and Media.

How to Recast Your Journalism Career and Reinvent Yourself
Sweeping changes in the media profession have brought layoffs, buyouts and burnout.  It's a troubling time to be a journalist.  You may be wondering: What now?
The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media wants to help you answer that question.  The skills of gathering and sorting information, writing and editing it, and presenting it to an audience are still valuable.

Sunday, Oct. 3010 a.m., Carolina Inn$20 per person(free for J-school Dean’s Circle members)
The new voice of the Tar Heels, Jones Angell, is a 2001 graduate of the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media.
As part of UNC’s homecoming festivities, the school invites you to join your fellow UNC alumni and friends for a Sunday brunch with Jones.

The first group of students enrolled in the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media’s new online Master of Arts in Technology and Communication (MATC) program participated in an orientation in Carroll Hall Aug. 4–5.  Students begin online classes Aug. 23, but will return to campus again in May for a weeklong summer workshop.

“Spilling Over,” a documentary video from the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media’s News21 project “Powering a Nation,” won Best In Show honors in the National Press Phot

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media faculty member Ferrel Guillory has issued a July 2011 report that proposes a “metropolitan’’ model of economic and community development for North Carolina’s eastern region.
Read the report.

Associate professor Sriram “Sri” Kalyanaraman will be presented with the 2011 Hillier Krieghbaum Under-40 Award on Aug. 12 during the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference in St. Louis.

Dulcie Straughan, former senior associate dean of the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, became the school's interim dean July 1.
Jean Folkerts, dean of the school since 2006, announced in October that she would step down June 30 and remain on the faculty.