I grew up just a few miles away from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I figured I’d go somewhere far away for college, so when I was young, I paid little attention to UNC. Then, when I was in high school, my family and I moved to Yankeeland, the outskirts of Boston, where the winters were cold, dark and relentless. In my first week of at my new school school, a couple of my classmates asked me if I’d been “allowed” to learn about the Civil War at my high school in North Carolina. Had I been taught to call it “The War of Northern Aggression”?*
All of this is a long way of saying that I did go to UNC, and I loved it, enough to return for a master’s degree in journalism. And now I’m profiled on the university’s website. Read it.
*The answer is no, we called it the Civil War. In fact, the month I left North Carolina, my history class had been reading Howard Zinn.
UNC-Chapel Hill classmate Eileen Mignoni and I talked with Bill Buckley at Fox8 News about becoming finalists in the Project:Report competition, an international documentary competition sponsored by YouTube and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. (more…)
I talked with Andy Plesser of Beet.tv in Washington, D.C., shortly after being honored at American University as one of five finalists in the Pulitzer Center’s Project:Report competition. Arturo Perez, also interviewed here, was the competition winner.
