Christine Craft Rights Act of 1964) and her media experiences. Her story was featured in an exhibit at the Newseum, an interactive museum of news and journalism located in Washington, D.C. Christine Craft Christine Ann Craft (born 1944) is an attorney, radio talk show host and former television news anchor. She became known in the broadcast industry in the 1980s for her age and sexual discrimination lawsuit against a television station that had demoted her from news anchor to reporter. Craft was born in 1944 in San Marino, California. After graduating from college with a degree in English in 1966, she spent
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