Jul. 15—CHAPEL HILL — Faculty members of UNC's Hussman School of Journalism and Media gathered Wednesday to express their discomfort with a prominent display of Walter Hussman Jr.'s statement of values in the lobby of the school and on its website.
Hussman’s full statement of core values reads:
“To give the news impartially, without fear or favor.” (Adolph Ochs, 1858-1935)
In 2019, Walter Hussman, a UNC alumnus and owner of a media conglomerate of newspapers and other media outlets, donated $25 million to the UNC journalism school.
Hussman, the journalism school's top donor and namesake, has played a central role in the controversy surrounding the recruitment of Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, to the journalism school.
Nikole Hannah-Jones is the architect of the New York Times 1619 Project.
Hussman’s full statement of core values reads:
“To give the news impartially, without fear or favor.” (Adolph Ochs, 1858-1935)
In 2019, Walter Hussman, a UNC alumnus and owner of a media conglomerate of newspapers and other media outlets, donated $25 million to the UNC journalism school.
Hussman, the journalism school's top donor and namesake, has played a central role in the controversy surrounding the recruitment of Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, to the journalism school.
Nikole Hannah-Jones is the architect of the New York Times 1619 Project.
