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Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting comes to Carolina
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Penny Abernathy named as 2019 Welles Memorial Prize winner for News Deserts research
The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business at the Columbia…
Poynter, Better News detail News Reporter’s Table Stakes-influenced revenue and readership growth
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UNC School of Journalism and Media gets new name after largest gift ever
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First joint event sponsored by two UNC Knight Centers
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The Emerging Technologies Lab at the UNC Hussman School of…
CISLM welcomes Cohort 3 of the UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative
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