Nick Clooney the School of Communication and the Newseum, the interactive museum of news in Washington, D.C. As part of the school-Newseum partnership, Clooney hosted the fifth annual AU School of Communication-Newseum Reel Journalism Film Festival and other events at the Newseum. "After a news career that stretches back to the Eisenhower administration, I'm looking forward to joining American University's School of Communication and the Newseum to work with a new generation of prospective journalists," said Clooney. Clooney taught Opinion Writing in fall 2008, and in spring 2009, he taught Films that Changed Us, a new course based on his book, "The
UNC School of Media and Journalism of the news story; and the study of modern journals” in the 1909-10 academic catalog. The Department of Journalism was founded in 1924 with Gerald W. Johnson, an editorial writer for the Greensboro Daily News, as its first chairman. With a six-course curriculum, students could earn a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism degree. The department offered its first broadcast journalism course, Journalism 67, “Radio News and Features,” in 1943. In 1946, faculty member Stuart Sechriest taught the first photography course, Journalism 80, “News Photography.” Lola Lee Mustard became the school’s first female faculty member in 1948. Led by UNC journalism