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Family and friends of Nelson Benton established this series of lectures by distinguished journalists after Benton, who worked more than 20 years at CBS News, died Feb. 13, 1988. He was 63.
Benton began his broadcasting career at radio station WSOC in Charlotte, North Carolina, after receiving his degree from UNC in 1949. The next year, he established the first television news department in the Southeast at WBTV in Charlotte. In 1960, he joined CBS News in New York City as an assignment editor and reporter. He worked in Dallas when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 and became the New Orleans bureau chief and correspondent for CBS News in 1964. He reported on the civil rights movement in the South and covered the Vietnam War from Saigon, Hue and the Vietnamese countryside. He spent the next decade as a Washington correspondent.
During the early 1970s, he was an anchor on the "CBS Morning News." He covered Watergate and the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974. He won an Emmy for a special broadcast about the Watergate tapes. When the country faced an acute shortage of energy resources in the 1970s, he pioneered the energy beat for CBS News.
He was a member of the team of CBS News correspondents who covered the American space program from the days of the Mercury astronauts through the moon landing on July 20, 1969.
Benton was born in Danville, Virginia. He and his wife Milli had one son, Joe Benton, who now lives in Falls Church, Virginia, and is a member of the MJ-school's Board of Advisers. Milli Benton died in 1994.
After Benton's death, Milli Benton donated his papers to the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. More than 2,700 items — including scripts, notes, appointment books and press packs — are in the collection and open to public viewing in Wilson Library.
For more information, contact Director of Communications Kyle York.
LIST OF SPEAKERS
Marty Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post | 2020
David Zucchino, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist | 2020
Gerard Baker, editor-in-chief, Wall Street Journal | 2014
Helene Cooper, White House correspondent, The New York Times | 2012
Hank Klibanoff and Gene Roberts, co-authors of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “The Race Beat”; Hodding Carter, UNC professor of public policy and former editor of the Delta Democrat Times; Joe Cumming, former Atlanta bureau chief for Newsweek; Moses J. Newson, former executive editor of the Baltimore Afro-American and former reporter at the Tri-State Defender in Memphis, Tennessee | 2010
Bill Schneider, senior policy analyst, CNN | 2008
Fred Shropshire, news reporter, WGN-TV | 2006
Sam Donaldson, ABC News | 2006
Randall Pinkston, CBS News correspondent | 2004
Charles Moose, former Montgomery Co., Maryland, police chief | 2003
Draggan Mihailovich, "60 Minutes II" | 2002
Carol Lin, CNN News | 2000
Bob Schieffer, CBS News chief Washington correspondent | 1997
Bill Plante, CBS White House correspondent | 1996
Cokie Roberts, correspondent for ABC News and National Public Radio | 1995
Charles Kuralt, former CBS News correspondent and "Sunday Morning" anchor | 1994
Walter Cronkite, former CBS News anchor | 1992
Dan Rather, CBS News anchor | 1991
Started in 2016, the Jane Brown Health Communication Lecture honors the legacy of retired James. L. Knight professor Jane Brown. Brown spent over three decades conducting research on the media’s influence on adolescents’ health, health communication and the use of media for health promotion. This annual lecture brings a nationally recognized researcher to the school to present their work and have a dialogue about health communication with an interdisciplinary mix of students and faculty.
For more information, contact Professor Seth Noar.
Xiaoquan Zhao, George Mason University | Sept. 27, 2019
Robin Nabi, University of California, Santa Barbara | Sept. 27, 2018
Jeff Niederdeppe, Cornell University | Sept. 29, 2017
Marco Yzer, University of Minnesota | Sept. 30, 2016
The Wade H. Hargrove Media Law and Policy Colloquium is named in honor of Wade Hargrove, former chair of the UNC Board of Trustees and the driving force behind the creation of the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy. The colloquium was established and funded by various media companies and friends of Hargrove as a forum for discussion and debate on contemporary media issues.
For more information, contact UNC Center for Media Law and Policy Co-Directors David Ardia and Amanda Reid.
David L. Cohen, executive vice president of Comcast Corp. | March 2015
David Barrett, chairman and CEO of Hearst Television Inc., Ben Sherwood, president of ABC News | November 2013
The Holding Power Accountable lecture series features journalists who are leading the examination of the people and organizations holding power in society.
For more information, contact Adjunct Instructor Adam Hochberg.
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez ’20, Fortune magazine reporter | March 28, 2022
Katelyn Ferral, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigative reporter | April 8, 2022
Joe Killian, NC Policy Watch investigative journalist | April 22, 2022
David Zucchino '73, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist| Feb 24, 2020
Mark Mazzetti, New York Times journalist; Adm. Dennis Blair, Knott Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Practice in the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense | Nov. 22, 2019
Helene Cooper, New York Times reporter| Feb. 26, 2019
Caitlin Owens '14, health care reporter at Axios | Jan. 28, 2019
This series is co-sponsored by the UNC Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) and ABIDE (UNC Hussman's committee for Access, Belonging, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity). The series brings scholars and journalists to UNC to discuss issues at the intersection of journalism and social inequality.
Eric Garcia '14, author of "We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation" | March 21, 2022
Wesley Lowery, author of “Whitelash: Hope and Horror in a Changing America” | March TBA, 2022
Nikki Usher, author of "News for the Rich, White, and Blue: How Place and Power Distort American Journalism" | Nov. 4, 2021
Kathy Roberts Forde, author of "Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America" | Oct. 13, 2021
Danielle Kilgo Brown, professor at the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | Oct. 25, 2021
The Mary Junck Research Colloquium series was formally established in 2007 to nurture an intellectually vibrant climate with both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary shades, by scheduling scholarly presentations on diverse topics.
The series has been particularly successful in attracting scholars and researchers of national and international renown from within the United States and abroad. The series attracts a diverse audience comprising faculty, graduate students and researchers from around the Triangle.
For more infomation, contact Assistant Director of Graduate Studies Casey Hart.
Khadijah White, Rutgers School of Communication and Information | October 2019
Melissa Aronczyk, Rutgers School of Communication and Information| October 2019
Erica Scharrer, University of Massachusetts Amherst | April 2019
Sarah J. Jackson, Northeastern University | February 2019
Berkley Hudson, University of Missouri | November 2018
Russell Clayton, Florida State University | September 2018
Natalie Stroud, University of Texas at Austin | April 2018
Matthew Weber, Rutgers University | November 2017
Emily Thorson, Boston College | March 2017
Mary Beth Oliver, Pennsylvania State University | February 2017
Meryl Alper, Northeastern University | January 2017
Philip Napoli, Duke University | November 2016
Grace Ahn, University of Georgia | November 2016
Brooke Fisher Liu, University of Maryland | October 2016
Deen Freelon, American University | March 2016
Brooke Erin Duffy, Temple University | March 2016
Jane Rhodes, University of Chicago | March 2016
Jesse Baldwin-Philippi, Fordham University, Chris Well, University of Wisconsin Madison | October 2015
Maureen Taylor, University of Tennessee Knoxville | September 2015
Jesse Fox, Oregon State University| August 2015
Geoffrey Baym, University of North Carolina Greensboro | April 2015
Heather LaMarrie, Temple University | April 2015
Edward Walker, University of California Los Angeles | March 2015
Max Boykoff, University of Colorado Boulder | March 2015
Janas Sinclair, Florida International University | February 2015
Melissa Michelson, Menlo College | February 2015
Carolina Lee, Lafayette College | February 2015
Zeynep Tufecki, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | January 2015
Dulcie Murdock Straughan, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | December 2014
Christina Dunbar-Hester, Rutgers University | November 2014
Nikki Usher, George Washington University | November 2014
Cathrine Gyldensted, DiS, Copenhagen | October 2014
Bartosz Wojdynski, University of Georgia | October 2014
Andrew Perrin, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | September 2014
Jessa Lingel, Microsoft Research New England Social Media Collective | September 2014
Mary Beth Oliver, Pennsylvania State University | January 2012
Organized by the UNC chapter of the National Press Photographers Association, PhotoNight is a speaker series that brings photographers, documentary filmmakers and visual storytellers from around the country to present their work and inspire our students.
For more information, contact Associate Professor Chad Stevens or Professor Pat Davison.
Ray Whitehouse, filmmaker| March 22, 2022
Alysia Burton Steele, multimedia journalist and author | February 2019
Jon Kasbe, film editor | November 2018
Deb Pastner, Star Tribune | November 2018
A Discussion on Documenting Protests | October 2018
Margaret Cheatham Williams, The New York Times | March 2018
Carolyn Van Houten, The Washington Post | February 2018
Louie Palu, freelance photojournalist | October 2017
Hannah Ayers and Lance Warren, Field Studio | September 2017
Andrea Wise and Jesse Neider, freelance photojournalists | March 2017
Erin Brethauer, San Francisco Chronicle | November 2016
Maggie Steber, freelance photojournalist | October 2016
Tim Matsui, freelance photojournalist | April 2016
Cath Spangler, New Yorker | April 2016
Alan Maynard, Trailblazer Studios | April 2016
Kevin Martin, freelance photojournalist | February 2016
Alexandra Bomback, Red Reel | November 2015
Endia Beal, freelance photographer | October 2015
Uwe Martin, freelance photojournalist | February 2015
Josh Davis | October 2014
Spencer Platt, freelance photojournalist | April 2012
Alex Harris, Duke Center for Documentary Studies | February 2012
Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber, freelance editorial photographers | March 2010
Brian Storm, Media Storm | February 2010
Travis Dove, freelance editorial photographer | January 2010
Dave LaBelle, Kent State University photojournalism program director | November 2009
Chris Rainier, National Geographic | October 2009
Greg Kelly, August 2009
Ben de la Cruz, NPR Science Desk multimedia editor | February 2008
Chris Hondros, former freelance photojournalist and war photographer | April 2007
Vicki Cronis-Nohe, Virginian-Pilot | March 2007
The Reed Sarratt Distinguished Lecture Series brings some of the best and brightest minds in the field to the University each year to discuss matters of importance and concern, of philosophy and principle.
Reed Sarratt was a great friend of excellence in journalism and mass communication and in education for the field. For many years, he worked in Atlanta as executive director of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association (SNPA) Foundation and then of SNPA itself. Before that, he had been a newspaperman in North Carolina.
A native of Charlotte and a 1937 graduate of UNC, he served as the inaugural president of the school's Journalism Alumni and Friends Association. He was inducted into the NC Media & Journalism Hall of Fame in 1985.
Sarratt died on March 15, 1986, at age 68. He devoted much of his life to improving journalism in the South. He loved the University and the school; numerous members of the Sarratt family have graduated from the University.
For more information, contact Director of Communications Kyle York.
Ken Auletta, staff writer, The New Yorker | Fall 2018
Andy Polansky, CEO, Weber Shandwick | Fall 2016
Andrew Robertson, CEO, BBDO Worldwide | Spring 2015
Matthew Winkler, CEO, Bloomberg News | Fall 2012
Paul Steiger, editor-in-chief, CEO and president, ProPublica | Spring 2012
Daniel J. Edelman, founder and chairman, Daniel J. Edelman Inc. | Spring 2006
M. Dockery Clark, former senior vice president of sponsorship and marketing, Bank of America | Spring 2005
John Walsh, senior vice president, ESPN | Fall 2003
Carl Kasell, National Public Radio | Spring 2003
Robert Giles, curator, The Nieman Foundation for Journalism | Fall 2002
Christine Brennan, sports columnist, USA Today | Spring 2002
Jay T. Harris, former publisher and chairman, The San Jose Mercury News | Fall 2001
R.W. Apple Jr., chief correspondent, The New York Times | Spring 2001
Dr. Charles Sherman, executive vice president, Television National Association of Broadcasters | Spring 2000
Harry Jacobs, retired chairman, the Martin Agency in Richmond, Virginia | Fall 1999
Penny Muse Abernathy, group publisher and general manager of the publishing division at Harvard Business School, former president of The New York Times News Services | Spring 1999
Ken Bode, moderator of PBS television program Washington Week in Review and dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University | Fall 1998
Gene Roberts, professor in the University of Maryland at College Park College of Journalism, former managing editor of The New York Times, and former editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer | Spring 1998
Felix Guiterrez, senior vice president and executive director of the Freedom Forum Pacific Coast Center in San Francisco | Fall 1997
Creed Black, president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and chairman and publisher of the Lexington Herald-Leader Company | Spring 1997
Geneva Overholser, ombudsman for the Washington Post and former editor of the Des Moines Register | Fall 1996
Sharon Lawrence, Broadway performer and television actress | Spring 1996
Karen Elliott House, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and president of International Group, Dow Jones & Co. Inc. | Fall 1995
Tom Wicker, author and former New York Times columnist | Spring 1995
Ruth Wooden, president of the Advertising Council | Fall 1994
Frank Deford, writer for Sports Illustrated | Spring 1994
Kurt Luedtke, screenwriter (Absence of Malice) and former editor of the Detroit Free Press | Fall 1993
Pat Carbine, co-founder, Ms. magazine | Spring 1993
Tom Burrell, founder and president, Burrell Advertising, Chicago | Fall 1992
Karen Jurgensen, editorial page editor, USA Today | Spring 1992
Doug Marlette, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist | Fall 1991
Tom Wicker, New York Times columnist and author | Fall 1990
Everette E. Dennis, author, researcher, educator and executive director of the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, Columbia University | Spring 1990
Jeff MacNelly, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist | Spring 1989
Gordon Parks, Life magazine photographer, film director, author and composer | Fall 1988
David Brinkley, famed television journalist and commentator, ABC News | Spring 1988
David Broder, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist | Fall 1987
Jeffrey Marx and Michael York, Pulitzer Prize-winning sports writers from the Lexington, Kentucky, Herald-Leader | Spring 1987