Q&A with Brooke Baldwin, UNC's 2017 spring commencement speaker

Posted Jan 12, 2017
Brooke Baldwin, a CNN news anchor, will be UNC's 2017 spring commencement speaker. A 2001 graduate of UNC, Baldwin joined CNN in 2008 and became an anchor in 2010. The DTH's Acy Jackson spoke with Baldwin about being the speaker and her plans for the speech. "First of all, I hope that everyone will have had too many Blue Cups the night before as I might have 15 years ago." (Daily Tar Heel)

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