Former Baltimore Sun editor resigns from UNC over racy text messages

Posted: 10:45 am Thu, November 18, 2010
By Associated Press

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — A journalism instructor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill has resigned amid allegations he sent sexually explicit text messages to a female student.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that Monty Cook submitted a resignation letter Tuesday.

Journalism school Dean Jean Folkerts says she contacted the university’s lawyers after the student’s former boyfriend confronted Cook about the texts on Nov. 12. Folkerts says the student confirmed she and Cook had been in a relationship for several weeks.

Cook left a post as an editor and senior vice president at The Baltimore Sun earlier this year to take a job as executive producer of a digital news project at UNC.

Neither Cook nor university officials immediately returned messages Thursday.