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
Nieman Lab profiles CISLM ‘Project Oasis’ partnership with Google and LION
Nieman Lab covered the March 18, 2020, announcement of Project…
Penny Abernathy interviewed on supporting local news during COVID-19
This New York Times piece quotes Knight Chair in Journalism…
UNC Table Stakes participants — past and present — win big at 2020 NCPA awards
Several participants of the UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative…
BLOG POSTS
Cultivating digital ‘oases’ in the local news landscape
The Google News Initiative announced Project Oasis today in a…
Making metrics work for readers
Successful media entrepreneurs know loyal and engaged customers lead to…
Penny Abernathy speaks at launch of UNC library local news exhibit
A new exhibit celebrating two centuries of North Carolina’s local…
Merja Myllylahti: The future of ‘all-digital’ media ownership models
One of a regular series of articles that highlights research…