Tom Bowers’ book, Making News, hit newsstands last week. It is for sale at the Bull’s Head Bookshop on campus or from University of North Carolina Press.

The book chronicles 100 years of journalism and mass communication education at Carolina with sparkling tales about struggles over accreditation and deanships.

Dean’s Circle donors to the school receive a complimentary copy.

Please read the book and comment here.

And be sure to visit centennial.jomc.unc.edu for historical facts, audio, video, images and other information related to the school centennial observance.

The School of Journalism and Mass Communication, in conjunction with the Mexico City campus of Tec de Monterrey, is offering a course in spring 2010,  ”Media Landscape of the 21st Century.” Two Mexican professors will teach this cutting-edge course by video-link in English. It will explore new personal media, hand-held media and other new means of communication. Students in Chapel Hill will join their classmates in Mexico City via teleconferences and Blackboard.

Ten students from Tec and ten from UNC will be in the class. Tec de Monterrey is a pioneering, high-tech university system with more than 30 campuses across Mexico. The Mexico City campus has a respected mass communication program with outstanding professors. The teachers of this course will be Enrique Tames, dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Clark Murray, a North Carolina native.

The Carolina journalism school lost a favorite son this week when Horace Carter passed away in Tabor City, N.C.

Horace earned his UNC journalism degree in 1943, and he founded the Tabor City Tribune in 1946.

In 1953, the Tribune became the first weekly newspaper to win the Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service. It was because Horace Carter had the courage to stand up against the Ku Klux Klan. He waged a campaign against the Klan in the face of violence and repeated threats, eventually leading to more than 100 convictions of Klansmen.

In 1991, Horace gave the school his Pulitzer gold medal, and we display it proudly in Carroll Hall. He said he wanted to inspire future journalists to fight for justice and high principles.

Our students and journalists everywhere should follow Horace Carter’s example of courage and conviction to do the right thing – whether they work for a large or small organization in a print or digital medium.