The UNT Mayborn School of Journalism's Endowed Chair for Narrative and Visual Storytelling Thorne Anderson recently earned two major honors from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the national accrediting body.

Anderson tied for second place in the Visual Communication Division Creative Research Competition with The Price of Freedom, and won third place with The Caregivers. Both projects were produced for KERA.

Anderson, who joined the UNT faculty in 2009, has worked internationally as a freelance photojournalist for numerous publications including The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, and holds a national Edward R. Murrow award for excellence in video.