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ABC News has chosen The UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication as one of five university programs in the U.S. that will open a mini-bureau for ABC News on campus in September.

The division will provide students with an opportunity to report on local stories and produce multimedia content for various digital and broadcast formats, including "Good Morning America," "World News With Charles Gibson," abcnews.com and ABC News Radio. ABC News will provide "state of the art" digital technology for reporting and production.

"These college digital bureaus will extend the newsgathering reach of ABC News throughout the country," ABC News President David Westin said in a news release. Westin went on to say that the program would "nurture bright young journalism students."

John Green, executive producer of special programming and development at ABC News, says the program will give ABC News a chance to help "groom some of the best budding journalists at these schools, and get to know them."

Green says that when he was considering which schools should be involved in the project, he wanted to focus on those that offered broad programs that encompassed all aspects of modern journalism, and UNC met his criteria.

"I had long heard that UNC-Chapel Hill had a great journalism program," Green says. "One of the things that I did when we got the funding for the project was I went to the Carnegie Foundation in New York City, and I spoke to the president -- because I really wanted a recommendation from someone that was working full time in academia -- to give me some advice on programs that were really excelling right now."

Danny Hooley with Raleigh's News & Observer has the story →