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UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media graduates are part of The Washington Post team awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for work on the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on Washington.

Among UNC Hussman’s graduating students are those honored with outstanding graduate awards and other superlative awards as they turn from being students to being alumni of the school.
Marcus Richardson received the Lois & H.C. Cranford Outstanding Graduating Senior in Advertising and Public Relations award; Hope Davison received the John Robert Bittner Outstanding Graduating Senior in Journalism award.

Dean Emeritus Richard Cole was honored by the organization that cemented his work as a journalist and university administrator — his college newspaper. Cole was inducted into The Daily Texan Hall of Fame. The Daily Texan is the student newspaper serving the University of Texas at Austin, Cole’s undergraduate alma materCole served as the newspaper’s managing editor in the early 1960s, as the robust college newspaper chronicled the influence of that decade’s rapid social shifts and tumultuous events on the large Texas campus. Cole wrote and edited copy on topics like the fight against segregation and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

UNC Hussman 1990 graduate and marketing executive Greg Johnson will address the school’s Class of 2022 at its Saturday, May 7, departmental commencement ceremony at 3:30 p.m. in Carmichael Arena.

“Living Galápagos,” a multimedia documentary project produced by students in Professor Pat Davison’s and Adjunct Instructor Tamara Rice’s spring 2022 “MEJO 584: International Projects” classes, premiered April 26 in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium of the UNC FedEx Global Education Center.
“MEJO 584” is a global storytelling course that allows students to travel internationally to create a documentary each spring — though travel was halted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Davison and Rice led their students on a trip to the Galápagos Islands in March 2022.

A vibrant and collaborative interdisciplinary research culture at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media creates new knowledge, advances scholarship and helps reinvent media.

While many college students hit sunny beaches and locations further south for Spring Break 2022, students in the “MEJO 447: Media in the UK” course hopped across the Atlantic during the break in classes for a week of media site visits in London.
The in-person global immersion— reinstated this year after a two-year pause during COVID-19 — is a fixture of the course, which introduces students to the British media market.

UNC Hussman Professor Tom Linden thinks every month should be Earth Month, not just April — especially given the myriad challenges currently facing the world’s environment.
Linden teaches students how to report about those environmental challenges in  “MEJO 560: Environmental and Science Journalism” and “MEJO 562: Environmental & Science Documentary TV” courses. Both courses help students grow the necessary skills for environmental reporting.

by Barbara Wiedemann
Two UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media undergraduate students are among a select group of college juniors, seniors and graduate students from around the nation who will work in paid 2022 Dow Jones News Fund (DJNF) internships across 77 U.S. newsrooms this summer. Interns are chosen and assigned to leading news outlets based on their résumés, experience, performance on DJNF tests, telephone interviews, 500-word essays and the needs of media outlets.

by Barbara Wiedemann
UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media graduate Jake Lawler ’20, a former Carolina football linebacker, was a three-time ACC Academic Honor Roll member and a three-time UNC Scholar-Athlete recipient. Writing has long played a significant role in Lawler’s life. By his junior year at Carolina, he was ready to pursue his Hollywood dreams full-time. Last month, Lawler stepped into his dream job as a writer for an upcoming Disney+ show. We caught up with him yesterday by Zoom in his Los Angeles apartment.