News

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Recent UNC Hussman graduate Mason Murr is covering the Olympic Games as a reporter, 60 years after her grandfather, UNC Basketball great Larry Brown, won gold.

Dozens of UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media graduate students, faculty, staff and alumni are set to participate in the 107th Annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference in Philadelphia.

The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media welcomes four distinguished new faculty members this academic year — adding to the school’s depth of scholarly and professional expertise in strategic growth areas.

Twenty-five UNC Hussman students and recent graduates are covering the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, marking the fourth Olympic reporting partnership in school history.

Olympic athletes represent determination, hard work and top-tier levels of graceful, skilled athleticism. They’re also really, really hard to get a hold of — especially during the Olympics. Students in UNC Hussman’s “MEJO 390: Tokyo Olympics” class have been finding that out as they use the Summer School course to cover the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Japan, which began July 23 and end on Aug. 8, 2021.

Twenty-nine students traveled to Brazil with the UNC School of Media and Journalism to cover the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in partnership with the Olympic News Service and the University of Memphis.

Thirty-one UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media students supported international journalists covering the Beijing Olympics.

Julia Roth and Kaitlyn Schmidt covered the Tokyo Games from afar in 2021 but will be on site in Paris this month.

An independent documentary by Anna Connors ’24 and Aayas Joshi ’26 tells the history of the dwindling buffalo population in the Yellowstone, Montana, region and the factors that threaten the species’ survival.