Mike Allen
(JOMC 271: Advertising Copy and Communication)
Paul H. Bonner
(JOMC 153: News Writing)
Steve Bouser
(JOMC 153: News Writing)
Chris Carmichael
(JOMC 221: Audio-Video Information Gathering)
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Brian Carroll
(JOMC 711: Writing for Digital Media)
Carroll earned his bachelor’s degree from Carolina in 1987. After a 15-year career reporting and editing, he returned to UNC to earn his doctorate in 2003. He is an associate professor of communication at Berry College in Mount Berry, Ga., and the author of “When to Stop the Cheering? The Black Press, the Black Community and the Integration of Professional Baseball.”
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Joan Cates
(JOMC 826: IHC Colloquium)
Cates teaches in the Interdisciplinary Health Communication (IHC) program for graduate students. She has a doctorate in mass communication and a master’s in public health from UNC. Her research examines the role of the media in shaping public awareness, policies and practices related to sexual and reproductive health. Dr. Cates’ publications include articles in “American Journal of Preventive Medicine,” “Women’s Health Issues,” “Sex Education” and the “Journal of Rural Health.”
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Jamie Cobb
(JOMC 271: Advertising Copy and Communication)
Cobb is a 1987 graduate of the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is the Executive Creative Director and principle at MicroMass Communications in Cary, N.C. For the past 20 years, he has held creative positions with agencies building global brands and developing advertising campaigns for Fortune 100 companies in aerospace, agriculture chemicals, furniture manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals.
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Timothy Crothers
(JOMC 245: Sports and the Media)
Crothers, a former senior writer at Sports Illustrated, is the author of “The Man Watching: A Biography of Anson Dorrance, the Unlikely Architect of the Greatest College Sports Dynasty Ever.”
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Bruce Curran
(JOMC 333: Video Communication for Public Relations Advertising)
Joseph Erba
(JOMC 141: Professional Problems and Ethics)
Erba is a doctoral student whose research interests lie at the intersection of racial minorities, higher education, and media messages. He has taught at the University of Corsica and worked in public relations in the Midwest.
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Eric Crosby
(JOMC 491: Presentation Design for Strategic Communication)
Crosby earned a B.S from The Ohio State University in Industrial Design and an MA from the Institute of Design, IIT in Chicago. He has been working as a visual designer for the past eighteen years. Most recently he was a color, material and trend designer for the mobile division of Motorola and has created brand identity solutions for Lenovo Personal Computers in Morrisville, N.C.
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Valerie Fields
(JOMC 232: Public Relations Writing)
Fields is a 1994 graduate of the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She is also CEO of V.K. Fields & Co. public relations and copywriting agency in Raleigh, N.C.. She founded the Millionaires in Training (MiT) youth entrepreneurial training program.
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Charles Floyd
(JOMC 182: Introduction to Graphic Design)
Floyd has a bachelor’s degree from UNC-Greensboro and master’s degree in industrial design. He has taught at the N.C. State University School of Design, Corcoran School of Art and Design in Washington, D.C., and Boston University’s Center for Digital Imaging Arts. Floyd is a former art director for National Geographic and a freelance designer/ illustrator serving science, technology, industrial, biomedical and publications markets in industrial and graphic design.
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Melita Garza
(JOMC 451: Economics Reporting)
Laura Herbst
(JOMC 153: Newswriting)
With more than 20 years of reporting experience, Herbst has written news for The New York Times, The News and Observer in Raleigh, Popular Science, Duke Magazine and other organizations. Her current interest is turning oral history reporting into dramatic fiction, and she is currently working on a book using the oral histories she collected from Togolese village women as a Fulbright scholar in West Africa. Herbst has a master's degree in creative writing and a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
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Adam Hochberg
Hochberg is an award-winning news correspondent for National Public Radio. He has reported extensively on politics, culture and commerce in the southeastern United States. He has a master’s degree in radio-television-motion pictures from UNC, and a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications from Ohio University.
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Woody Holliman
(JOMC 491: Presentation Design for Strategic Communication)
Gary Kayye
(JOMC 490: Branding of You)
Kevin Kearns
Keith King
(JOMC 153: News Writing and JOMC 157: News Editing)
King is a graduate of the School and has taught here since 2005. He has been a reporter, editor or owner at newspapers in North Carolina, Maryland and Kentucky, and a public television producer in Kentucky. He is associate editor of the Carolina Alumni Review, the independent magazine published by the General Alumni Association.
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Chris Kirkman
(JOMC 182: Introduction to Graphic Design)
Sun Young Lee
(JOMC 431: Case Studies in Public Relations)
Christina Malik
(JOMC 272: Advertising Media)
Malik is a doctoral candidate in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC-CH. Her professional experience includes working with advertising agencies such as Ogilvy and Mather, Deutsch, and The VIA Group. Her research focuses on the processing of advertising and branded health campaigns.
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Scott Misner
(JOMC 434: Public Relations Campaigns)
Misner received his undergraduate degree in advertising from Purdue University and his master’s degree in public relations from the UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is president of Misner & Associates Public Relations, a Raleigh-based idea factory handling some of the region’s more pressing public-private issues. Misner is now in his seventh year as an instructor in the Journalism School, and his students in public relations campaigns have helped real clients strategically plan their communications and garner significant media attention.
Misner is a yogi, cyclist, swimmer and runner. He is a contributing author of the Encyclopedia of Sport in American Culture and has authored more than 20 advocacy articles and white papers. He is a board member of the nonprofit Southern Documentary Fund.
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Dina Cappillo Niblock
(JOMC 482: Newspaper Design)
Niblock has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. She held various positions in the newsroom during her 14 years at the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale including designer, copy editor, assistant sports editor and features graphics editor. Prior to that, she worked as a section editor at The Progress-Index in Petersburg, Va. She has also taught Intro to Graphic Design.
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Temple Northup
(JOMC 141: Professional Problems and Ethics)
Temple received his BA from Wake Forest University and MA from Syracuse University. He lived for seven years in Los Angeles, working on over 160 episodes of prime time television programming, mainly as a writer. Currently a Roy H. Park Doctoral Fellow, Temple researches how individuals process mediated information and how that information effects media consumers, often at an unconscious level.
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Rebecca Ortiz
(JOMC 272: Advertising Media and JOMC 061: Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'n' Roll)
Ortiz is a doctoral student interested in health communication and identification with media characters as it relates to adolescent sexual health. She received her master's in Media Studies from Syracuse University and her bachelor's in Mass Communication from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her professional background includes news writing, direct marketing, and advertising. Most recently before going back to school, she worked as a research analyst at a direct marketing firm in Richmond, Virginia.
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Chris Perry
(JOMC 431: Case Studies in Public Relations)
Laurie Phillips
(JOMC 475: Concepts of Marketing)
Phillips earned a B.S from the University of Mary Washington in Business Administration and an MA from the University of Texas at Austin in Advertising. She worked as a Research Manager in the Web Intelligence Research Division of JD Power and Associates with clients as diverse as Verizon, General Mills, L’Oreal, Travel Channel, and Scion.
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David Remund
(JOMC 431: Case Studies in Public Relations)
Dean Smith
(JOMC 340: Introduction to Mass Communication Law)
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Mike Sundheim
(JOMC 491: Sports Publicity)
Mike Sundheim is in his 11th year in the communications department for the National Hockey League's Carolina Hurricanes. He has served as the team's director of media relations since 2002, and has his name etched on the Stanley Cup as part of the Hurricanes' 2006 championship squad. He is a 2000 graduate of UNC's School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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Eugenie Tyburski
(JOMC 714: Database and Web Research)
Genie Tyburski is a professional researcher who has worked with law firms for more than 20 years. She founded the website, The Virtual Chase, which provided information on legal, business and public records research strategies. Tyburski has written for trade journals and newsletters such as The CyberSkeptic’s Guide to Internet Research and was featured in the book, Law of the Super Searchers: The Online Secrets of Top Legal Researchers. She is editor of Introduction to Online Legal, Regulatory & Intellectual Property, a volume in the Business Research Solution Series by South-Western Education Publishing. In conjunction with research consultant Gary Price, Tyburski created the course “Database and Web Research” for the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2004 and has taught it online every year since then.
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Brendan Watson
(JOMC 221: Audio-Video Information Gathering)
Michael Yopp
(JOMC 153: News Writing, JOMC 253: Reporting)
Yopp spent 33 years in newsrooms, including at The Illinois State Journal, The Greensboro Record, The Raleigh Times and The News & Observer. He was the managing editor of The Raleigh Times and later The News & Observer.
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David Zucchino
(JOMC 491: International Reporting)
David Zucchino, a national and foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times for more than ten years, is a UNC graduate who has reported on war and civil strive in more than 20 nations. Zucchino worked for four years as an editor and department head at The Philadelphia Inquirer, supervising foreign correspondents and projects coverage, budgets, and staffs of editors and reporters. He edited the award-winning Black Hawk Down and Killing Pablo newspaper series by reporter Mark Bowden.
Zucchino is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for national and international reporting.
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