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About

Tiffany is a reporter who never hands the camera to someone else.

Tiffany covers the things a community actually turns up for — a council meeting, a new business on Main Street, a memorial celebration, a bill that changes who answers the fire call.

Tiffany Plusnick. Tiffany Plusnick Conway, South Carolina · UNC–Chapel Hill
Eric Emerson delivers a lecture on the history of the South Carolina state flag at the Horry County Museum.

Photograph by Tiffany Plusnick · MyHorryNews.com

Tiffany studied at Clemson, spent a semester in Florence, and is now studying for a master’s at UNC’s Hussman School.

Education

Clemson University — alumna. M.A. Media and Communication candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying journalism at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media.

Abroad

Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici, Florence — Fashion Communication.

Mastheads

MyHorryNews.com (Horry County, South Carolina) · The Daily Tar Heel (UNC–Chapel Hill) · The Pendulum, Clemson University’s International Affairs Magazine.

Based

Conway, South Carolina — the Grand Strand and the Carolinas.

Also

Assignment photography — six published photographs carry Tiffany’s own credit.

Cover of The Pendulum, Spring 2024, Issue 19.
The Pendulum, Spring 2024 — Clemson’s international affairs magazine.
Cover of The Pendulum, Spring 2023, Issue 17.
The Pendulum, Spring 2023.

Résumé

Tiffany trained in data journalism, media law and criticism at Clemson and UNC.

Education

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel HillM.A. Media and Communication candidate, studying at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media.
  • Clemson UniversityAlumna. Wrote for The Pendulum, the university's International Affairs Magazine.
  • Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici, FlorenceStudied abroad in 2023, including Fashion Communication.

Selected coursework

  • Data Driven JournalismMEJO 756
  • Media Law and EthicsMEJO 741
  • Media EthicsCOMM 245
  • War and the MediaCOMM 301
  • Practice of CriticismENGL 3100
  • Public RelationsCOMM 300
The first page of Tiffany Plusnick’s media-ethics reporting on ethnocentrism in journalism.
Media ethics, applied: Tiffany's reporting on how newsroom assumptions shape who gets covered.

Honors

  • LIFE ScholarshipJune 2020
  • International Diploma recipientJune 2020
  • Social Media Campaign — 1st place, DistrictFuture Business Leaders of America, 2019
  • Introduction to Business — 2nd District, 3rd StateFuture Business Leaders of America, 2018

Languages

  • SpanishLimited working proficiency
  • GermanLimited working proficiency

Publishing & digital

  • WordPress.com Essential Training
  • SEO for Social Media
  • Learning Wix

Full history on LinkedIn

Panel

Beyond Clicks and Shares: Crafting Credible News Online

A live webinar on how social media is reshaping journalism, hosted by graduate journalism students at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media. Panel: Laura Brache, Josh Sullivan and Olivia Hicks.

Promotional graphic for the Critical Conversations live webinar, Beyond Clicks and Shares: Crafting Credible News Online.

Send Tiffany one assignment and the story and the photographs come back together.

News reporting, longer features, and photography on the same assignment.

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The first page of Tiffany Plusnick’s story on the Big Branch Greenway Connector meeting.
A page as Tiffany filed it: residents pushing back at a Greenway Committee meeting.