City News Bureau of Chicago and how they could best cover the city. We are re-launching that bureau in the form of a course this fall. It will be taught by two remarkable journalism veterans. Paul Zimbrakos was the Managing Editor of the bureau for a number of years before it closed its doors and tutored many of the best journalists in the country. Jack Smith was the former CBS Bureau Chief in Chicago and Washington DC. Together they will make this class a rich learning lab and help students discover how best to cover a city and its inner-workings." City News Bureau of Chicago
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