Campus & Community UNC leads UWIRE 100 list of top college journalists
| UNC leads UWIRE 100 list of top college journalists |
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| Tuesday, May 27, 2008 | |
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Five UNC-Chapel Hill students have been named as part of the UWIRE 100, honoring the nation’s top 100 collegiate journalists from more than 500 nominations. UNC-Chapel Hill had the most students honored among 132 schools. A UWIRE panel judged each candidate based on demonstrated excellence in a field of collegiate journalism. LaToya Evans, a 2008 graduate from Fayetteville, has interned at Vogue, Vanity Fair, Real Simple, Cosmopolitan and CosmoGIRL! She has also submitted freelance work for publications such as Glamour, People, Girls’ Life, Woman’s World, Upscale, VibeVixen, Carolina Parent and various other publications. Adam Rhew, a 2008 graduate from Charlotte, served as a news anchor for Carolina Week, the student-run television broadcast at UNC, for three semesters. He also served as floor manager, reporter, camera operator and anchor, totaling eight semesters with the program. His journalistic experience also includes work as a radio news reporter at WCHL-AM of Chapel Hill and WBT-AM/FM of Charlotte. He has won a number of regional and national reporting awards, including a national radio news reporting award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Walter Storholt, a rising senior from Greensboro, served as a sportscaster with WCHL-AM. Storholt will travel to Beijing with other UNC journalism students in July to help cover the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Some of his recent honors and awards include 2008 inaugural National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Furman Bisher Medal, 2008 UNC Stephen Gates Scholarship and a national first-place award in radio news from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. Joseph Schwartz, a 2008 graduate from Chapel Hill, was a senior writer for The Daily Tar Heel this year and served as editor-in-chief in the 2006-2007 academic year. Julie Turkewitz, a 2008 graduate from Brookeville, Md., She served as a photographer and reporter for The Daily Tar Heel. She was a reporting intern at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2006 and at The Baltimore Sun in 2007. Issues she has covered include immigration, presidential elections and the pollution of an Atlanta neighborhood by a waste plant. UWIRE is operated by CBS College Sports Network, a CBS company. Web site: http://www.uwire.com/100 UWIRE contacts: Dan Sabreen, (646) 731-2357, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ; Alex Riethmiller, (945) 489-4235, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it News Services contact: Susan Houston, (919) 962-8415, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it |