Media

Just the Facts

May 24, 2024

After helping create a fact-checking service in South Korea, Heesoo Jang continues to improve trust between readers and the media at Carolina.

More Than Books

April 12, 2023

Tushar Varma traveled across 35 states, visiting 85 independent bookstores to learn why they’re so vital to the communities they reside in.

Change Through Stories

March 16, 2023

Nazanin Knudsen uses writing, filmmaking, and small moments in time to reflect on larger cultural discrepancies.

Farnosh Mazandarani

May 11, 2022

Farnosh Mazandarani is a PhD student in the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media. She studies popular pornographic media content in the U.S. and how trends in popularity coincide with societal and cultural events, advances, and movements.

Mad About Media

November 18, 2020

Alice Marwick learned how to code when she was 11 and began working in the tech industry at 19. After the dot-com bubble burst, she realized she could combine her passion for technology with her love for social science in a graduate program. Now, the UNC communications professor researches disinformation and privacy, two of the most pressing issues in the world of media ethics.