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1. Recent decades · 1976–2026

2. 1981
   Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill Philip Meyer returns to UNC as a Kenan Professor of journalism

   After running market research for Knight Ridder Newspapers from 1978, Meyer came back to Chapel Hill in 1981 with a Kenan Professorship at UNC. He later became the journalism school's first Knight Chair and taught until 2008.

3. September 28, 2017
   Award or honor · Chapel Hill UNC's Noteworthy Firsts program honors Karen Parker

   At a reception in Kenan Stadium, UNC honored Parker among 21 people whose names were given to need-based undergraduate awards and graduate fellowships in its Noteworthy Firsts initiative, begun by Chancellor Carol Folt in 2016.

4. February 24, 2020
   Publication, speech or performance · Carroll Hall, Chapel Hill David Zucchino discusses Wilmington's Lie in UNC's Nelson Benton Lecture

   David Zucchino, a UNC journalism alumnus and former lecturer at the school, spoke about his book Wilmington's Lie, on the 1898 Wilmington coup, in the Carroll Hall auditorium.

5. Fall 2023
   Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill David Zucchino teaches International Reporting at UNC as an adjunct instructor

   Two-time Pulitzer winner David Zucchino returned to UNC as an adjunct instructor to teach a course in international reporting, run as a working newsroom.

6. May 5, 2025
   Award or honor · Chapel Hill Chuck Stone receives a posthumous Pulitzer Prize special citation

   The Pulitzer Prize Board gave Stone, the former Walter Spearman Professor of journalism at UNC, a special citation for his civil rights reporting, his work as the first Black columnist at the Philadelphia Daily News and his part in founding the National Association of Black Journalists.

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