Check out www.poweringanation.org to see the work of UNC’s fantastic journalism and mass communication students. This study of energy is part of News 21, a project financed through the Carnegie-Knight Journalism Initiative.

Students are creating stories, photos, video, audio and graphics and combining them into multimedia presentations that will be posted to the Web site later this summer. The site is accompanied by a blog and information about the students doing the project in addition to the results of the project.

These innovative projects are being created by 10 UNC students and visiting students from Missouri and Harvard. They are advised by faculty members Laura Ruel and Don Wittekind. Other faculty coaches include experts in writing, photography, video, audio and programming.

In developing this project, we recognized that UNC has an advantage over other schools. While other schools have to use their grant money to hire programmers, we train our own in our visual communication program. That way we can use our grant funds more directly to enhance story and visual collection.

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