The Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media exists to support established and emerging local news organizations through applied research on economic sustainability and entrepreneurship as well as innovative news and digital product solutions.
Reinventing Local News
Featured Project
Introducing Project Oasis
We're partnering with the Google News Initiative, LION Publishers and Doug Smith to create Project Oasis – a dynamic new endeavor to identify, share and implement the best practices that help local digital news models get started and succeed.
IN THE NEWS
LISTEN: Knight Chair Penny Abernathy featured on Axios podcast
UNC Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics Penny…
Poynter profiles new local news report from Knight Chair Penny Abernathy
An article by Tom Stites in Poynter examined findings from…
Better News profiles UNC Table Stakes participant EducationNC
This Better News piece profiles an innovative town hall-style event…
Editor & Publisher features ‘Project Oasis’
This Editor & Publisher piece details Project Oasis, a partnership…
BLOG POSTS
Assessing the news deserts landscape and looking forward: UNC CISLM Director Susan Leath shares latest research from Knight Chair Penny Abernathy
Susan Leath is the director of the Center for Innovation…
An open letter from the Knight Chairs in Journalism
In recent weeks, the latest killings of African-Americans by law…
WATCH: Strategic Digital Media Entrepreneur
Revolutionary new technologies are compelling news organizations to recreate…
Covering COVID-19: UNC Table Stakes participants adapt and innovate
Media organizations across the country have pivoted operations to cover…