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A Tribute to Pius Njawe - A Journalist, A Freedom Fighter

A Tribute to Pius Njawe - A Journalist, A Freedom Fighter

By NTNN • on July 13, 2010

Last year, Mitch Land, interim dean of the Mayborn School of Journalism, celebrated the 30th anniversary of Le Messager, the daily newspaper in Douala, Cameroon with the newspaper’s founder Pius Njawe, 53, who died yesterday  in a traffic accident in Chesapeake, VA. Here’s a collection of links to Dr. Land’s reports from that memorable

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Health Care Reform Stirs Hopes, Fears for Parents of Autistic Children

Health Care Reform Stirs Hopes, Fears for Parents of Autistic Children

By NTNN • on April 29, 2010

Click on the image to view the video package. By Sarah Mueller / NTNewsNet.com — Twenty-one-year-old Ben Burns can only speak one word: up. He is severely autistic and his father Dan Burns

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UNT Alumnus Cragg Hines Shares Memories, Humor & Advice

UNT Alumnus Cragg Hines Shares Memories, Humor & Advice

By NTNN • on April 19, 2010

Cragg Hines, former Washington bureau chief for the Houston Chronicle, Saturday delivered the keynote address during an awards and scholarship banquet at the Gateway Center, hosted by the Frank W. and Sue No CommentsRead this story »

Photojournalist Thorne Anderson Says Media’s Future is Full of Opportunity

Photojournalist Thorne Anderson Says Media’s Future is Full of Opportunity

By NTNN • on April 15, 2010

By Stephen Masker NTNewsNet.com Click on the image to view slide show. Q: If a student were meeting you for the first time, what would you say? A: I come to UNT fresh out of the

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Gibson searches, finds family

Gibson searches, finds family

By NTNN • on March 11, 2010

By Sarah Mueller  & Photos by Martina Trevino / NTNewsNet.com Fifty-one -year-old Kahron Gibson never gave up her search for her birth mother. The Dallas resident was adopted as an infant and says she always felt loved by her adoptive parents. But she grew lonely after they died in 2000. So Gibson

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President Bataille Bids Farewell

President Bataille Bids Farewell

By NTNN • on February 25, 2010

By: Sarah Mueller / NTNewsNet - Photos by Stephen Masker and Martina Trevino - University of North Texas students, faculty and staff came together today to celebrate former UNT President Gretchen

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Faculty, Students Question Bataille’s resignation

Faculty, Students Question Bataille’s resignation

By NTNN • on February 24, 2010

By Sarah Mueller / NTNewsNet - Before a packed auduitorium, University of North Texas Chancellor Lee Jackson spoke in a Faculty Senate meeting to address the mystery surrounding the sudden resignation of UNT President Gretchen Bataille. More than a hundred people packed the University Union for the meeting.

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UNT basketball banking on key players

UNT basketball banking on key players

By NTNN • on December 10, 2009

Learn more about these players from NTNewsNet Reporter Aaron Zapata. Click here to see the video. Josh White- 5′10″- Point Guard- Junior- Baton Rouge,

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Snow Surprises Students in Denton

Snow Surprises Students in Denton

By NTNN • on December 3, 2009

By Sarah Mueller/Rebecca Parker NTNewsNet.com Students woke up to snow on the ground as an early December cold front passed through North Texas.  The snow was already melting as many students walked to class swaddled in warm clothes, umbrellas and boots. “I’m from Houston. This is not how

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Le Messager anniversary celebrates truth, freedom, journalism

Le Messager anniversary celebrates truth, freedom, journalism

By NTNN • on December 1, 2009

Mitch Land, interim dean of the Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism, stressed the importance of journalism and the importance of truth as the 30th anniversary of Le Messager, the daily newspaper in Douala, Cameroon, ended. Land was among an international contingent of journalists, civic and

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