Lecturers

Amanda Adams
(JOMC 272)
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Mike Allen
(JOMC 271: Advertising Copy and Communication)
Mike Allen oversees the creative department at Jennings and the work that comes out of it. A self-professed ad junkie (ask him to quote Bill Bernbach), social media geek and music fanatic, Allen began his career in 1986 after graduating from the UNC School of Journalism. He's written for American Airlines, Nortel Networks, Bank of America, BB&T, Biltmore Estate, JCPenney, Duke University Health System and WakeMed, among many others. He teaches advertising at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication and makes documentary films in his spare time.
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Lisa Barnard
(JOMC 272)
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Paul H. Bonner
(JOMC 153: News Writing)
Bonner is a senior editor for articles on taxation and personal finance in the Journal of Accountancy and The Tax Adviser, both published by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He was also a reporter and editor at The Herald-Sun in Durham for 19 years.
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Steve Bouser
(JOMC 153: News Writing)
Steve, in his sixth semester as an adjunct journalism lecturer at Chapel Hill, is opinion editor of The Pilot, a prize-winning newspaper serving Southern Pines/Pinehurst. He grew up in Missouri, served as a Russian linguist in the Army, graduated from Southwest Missouri State, and worked at papers in Wisconsin and Florida before moving to North Carolina in 1973. He is the author of the nonfiction murder mystery “Death of a Pinehurst Princess” and several plays, including “Senator Sam.” He is now completing a book about his media assistance adventures in Russia, where he lived in the mid-1990.
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Linda Brinson
(JOMC 456)
Linda C. Brinson was the editorial page editor of the Winston-Salem Journal from 2002 until the end of 2008, when she left the newspaper to pursue a career in freelance writing and editing. In the 1970s, she was a copy editor and then the assistant national editor at The Sun in Baltimore, Md. As a freelancer, Brinson writes for various publications including Our State magazine, the Greensboro News and Record, Baptists Today magazine, the Religious Herald and HowStuffWorks.com. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wake Forest University and has an MFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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John Camp
(JOMC 121)
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Esther Campi
(JOMC 232)
Esther Campi teaches public relations writing with a “PR boot camp” approach designed for students who are serious about becoming PR pros. For nearly 20 years, Campi has been a trusted adviser to America’s top leaders, from Fortune 500 CEOs to U.S. senators. She has spent her career at the intersection of business, politics and journalism -- as communications chief for a top chamber of commerce, press secretary to a U.S. Senator and capital bureau chief for the Biloxi, Miss., Sun-Herald. Her firm, Campi & Company, specializes in executive branding, corporate reputation and public affairs. Campi holds a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, and was named one of Georgia Trend Magazine's "40 under Forty."
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Chris Carmichael
(JOMC 221: Audio-Video Information Gathering)
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Brian Carroll
(JOMC 711: Writing for Digital Media)
Carroll earned his bachelor’s degree from Carolina in 1987. After a 15-year career reporting and editing, he returned to UNC to earn his doctorate in 2003. He is an associate professor of communication at Berry College in Mount Berry, Ga., and the author of “When to Stop the Cheering? The Black Press, the Black Community and the Integration of Professional Baseball.”
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Joan Cates
(JOMC 826: IHC Colloquium)
Cates teaches in the Interdisciplinary Health Communication (IHC) program for graduate students. She has a doctorate in mass communication and a master’s in public health from UNC. Her research examines the role of the media in shaping public awareness, policies and practices related to sexual and reproductive health. Dr. Cates’ publications include articles in “American Journal of Preventive Medicine,” “Women’s Health Issues,” “Sex Education” and the “Journal of Rural Health.”
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Meredith Clark
(JOMC 157)
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Jamie Cobb
(JOMC 475)
Cobb is a 1987 graduate of the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is the Executive Creative Director and principle at MicroMass Communications in Cary, N.C. For the past 20 years, he has held creative positions with agencies building global brands and developing advertising campaigns for Fortune 100 companies in aerospace, agriculture chemicals, furniture manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals.
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Roxane Coche
(JOMC 240)
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Timothy Crothers
(JOMC 245: Sports and the Media)
Crothers, a former senior writer at Sports Illustrated, is the author of “The Man Watching: A Biography of Anson Dorrance, the Unlikely Architect of the Greatest College Sports Dynasty Ever.”
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Bruce Curran
(JOMC 333: Video Communication for Public Relations Advertising)
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Chris Davis
(JOMC 491)
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Tyler Dukes
(JOMC 153)
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Donald Desloge
(JOMC 187)
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Chris Ekstrand
(JOMC 232)
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Ocek Eke
(JOMC 446)
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Frank Fee
(JOMC 89)
Frank E. Fee Jr. joined the School Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in July 2000 after three years as the inaugural Knight Professor of Editing in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. Before that, he was an editor and reporter in daily newspapers for nearly 35 years.
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Valerie Fields
(JOMC 232: Public Relations Writing)
Fields is a 1994 graduate of the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She is also CEO of V.K. Fields & Co. public relations and copywriting agency in Raleigh, N.C.. She founded the Millionaires in Training (MiT) youth entrepreneurial training program.
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Oscar Guerra
(JOMC 221)
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Adam Hochberg
(JOMC 426)
Hochberg is an award-winning news correspondent for National Public Radio. He has reported extensively on politics, culture and commerce in the southeastern United States. He has a master’s degree in radio-television-motion pictures from UNC, and a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications from Ohio University.
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Melissa Hudgens
(JOMC 491)
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Dane Huffman
(JOMC 121)
Dane Huffman, a Raleigh native, graduated from UNC in 1983. Huffman spent 24 years at The News & Observer, serving as a sports reporter on the ACC and NFL beats before becoming assistant sports editor in 1998. He became Sports Managing Editor of WRAL in 2007, and in that role he launched the highly successful WRALSportsFan and HighSchoolOT websites. He received his master's degree from Duke University in 2011. Huffman now manages the News website and social media for NBC-17, the NBC affiliate in Raleigh, N.C.
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Gary Kayye
(JOMC 490)
Gary Kayye has worked in technology sales and marketing for more than 20 years. He is the founder of Kayye Consulting, a technology consulting company, and rAVe [Publications], a digital and social media publishing firm that focuses on the communications industries. Kayye regularly speaks, teaches classes and writes about technology and the future of advertising and marketing. He was recognized as InfoComm's Educator of the Year in 2004 and the National System Contractor Association's Instructor of the Year in 2007. A graduate of the University of North Carolina's school of journalism and mass communication, Kayye joined the UNC JOMC as adjunct faculty in 2009 and he teaches a class about social media and new media technologies, as well as a class on personal branding.
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Kevin Kearns
(JOMC 473)
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Hyosun Kim
(JOMC 272.001)
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Keith King
(JOMC 153: News Writing and JOMC 157: News Editing)
King is a graduate of the School and has taught here since 2005. He has been a reporter, editor or owner at newspapers in North Carolina, Maryland and Kentucky, and a public television producer in Kentucky. He is associate editor of the Carolina Alumni Review, the independent magazine published by the General Alumni Association.
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Chris Kirkman
(JOMC 182: Introduction to Graphic Design)
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Stephanie Mahin
(JOMC 431)
Stephanie Mahin is the Media Relations and Broadcast Manager for UNC Health Care. She has been in that position for nearly 12 years. She has won numerous Telly Awards and has been nominated for a Regional Emmy. Prior to working at UNC Health Care, Stephanie was a broadcast journalist for several years having worked in the Atlanta, DC, Winston-Salem, and Raleigh markets. She is a graduate of Butler University in Indianapolis, IN. She received her master’s degree in Organizational Communication from N.C. State University.
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Scott Mason 
(JOMC 121)
Scott Mason is a broadcast journalist with 28 years of television experience. He has won dozens of awards for documentaries, writing, and feature reporting, including three National Edward R. Murrow awards and 16 regional Emmys. In both 2004 and 2005, the Electronic News Association of the Carolinas named him the North Carolina television Reporter of the Year. Today, Mason is known as the Tar Heel Traveler. His Monday-Thursday feature series on WRAL takes viewers along the back roads of North Carolina where he meets memorable characters, finds out-of-the-way places, and unearths fascinating historical footnotes. He is also pursuing his Master’s degree in creative writing at Queens University of Charlotte.
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Anne Maxfield
(JOMC 434)
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Grayson Mendenhall
(JOMC 153 and JOMC 482)
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Scott Misner
(JOMC 434: Public Relations Campaigns)
Misner received his undergraduate degree in advertising from Purdue University and his master’s degree in public relations from the UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is president of Misner & Associates Public Relations, a Raleigh-based idea factory handling some of the region’s more pressing public-private issues. Misner is now in his seventh year as an instructor in the Journalism School, and his students in public relations campaigns have helped real clients strategically plan their communications and garner significant media attention.
Misner is a yogi, cyclist, swimmer and runner. He is a contributing author of the Encyclopedia of Sport in American Culture and has authored more than 20 advocacy articles and white papers. He is a board member of the nonprofit Southern Documentary Fund.
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Sara Peach
(JOMC 491)
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John Robinson
(JOMC 101 and JOMC 153)
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Elizabeth Spainhour
(JOMC 340)
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Eugenie Tyburski
(JOMC 714: Database and Web Research)
Genie Tyburski is a professional researcher who has worked with law firms for more than 20 years. She founded the website, The Virtual Chase, which provided information on legal, business and public records research strategies. Tyburski has written for trade journals and newsletters such as The CyberSkeptic’s Guide to Internet Research and was featured in the book, Law of the Super Searchers: The Online Secrets of Top Legal Researchers. She is editor of Introduction to Online Legal, Regulatory & Intellectual Property, a volume in the Business Research Solution Series by South-Western Education Publishing. In conjunction with research consultant Gary Price, Tyburski created the course “Database and Web Research” for the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2004 and has taught it online every year since then.
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Chris Vargo
(JOMC 271)
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Michael Yopp
(JOMC 153: News Writing)
Yopp spent 33 years in newsrooms, including at The Illinois State Journal, The Greensboro Record, The Raleigh Times and The News & Observer. He was the managing editor of The Raleigh Times and later The News & Observer.
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