This portfolio contains various articles and class projects that I have completed during the past two years.

July issue

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This is an article I wrote that appeared in the July issue of the Carolina Communicator, a publication of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC-Chapel Hill.

The article covers Chrisine Brennan, whose USA Today column makes her the nation's most-read woman sports columnist. She is also a network TV analyst and was an on-air contributor to ABC News during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.

In her Reed Sarratt Distinguished Lecture on April 22, 2002, Brennan spoke on the inequality in media's coverage of sports. "There are girls playing sports as never before in our country," Brennan said, but "I don't see this groundswell of activity of girls in sports reflected."

October issue

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This is an article I wrote that appeared in the October issue of the Carolina Communicator, a publication of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC-Chapel Hill.

The article covers three UNC-Chapel Hill 2000 graduates of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Micke Sundheim, Fred Roselli and PJ Avetta now work with the media and publics associated with the Carolina Hurricanes, who won the 2002 Eastern Conference Champonship Team and played to a fith game in the Stanley Cup Finals.

While future NHL Hall of Famer Ron Francis and star rookie Erik Cole capture fans' attention on the ice, Sundheim, Roselli and Avetta make sure the world knows about these Hurricanes the next day.

This is an article I wrote while interning with the Black Mountain News, a weekly newspaper publication, during the summer of 2002. This article appeared in the Augsust 1st issue.

The article covers Carl E. "Gene" Mills' book that he wrote about growing up in Swannanoa, NC. While covering his story, the article includes various memories of other residents who remember what it was like to grow up in "Another Time, Another Place."

This is the complete unedited version of the article in word format.

Spring '02

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This is a public relations plan I developed as a team project in my Jomc 130 class. We worked with the Eno River Association, a non-profit conservation organization that works to conserve and protect the land and resources of the Eno River basin.

The project included a power point presentation that was based on the research our team conducted. In the presentation, we outlined what we believed to be effective objectives, strategies, and tactics for the Eno River Association to pursue in order to operate more effectively and increase their association's membership.