In the 1970s, when Ju-Don Marshall was 7, her family moved to the South Carolina Low Country from New York. Marshall had maternal roots in the area, deep in the African-American Gullah culture surrounding Charleston, but to a New York…
Author: Beth Hatcher
Reese News Lab students pitch the news products of tomorrow
A body positivity website. An enhanced set of platforms for a working-mom podcast. A networking site for freelancers. A food money-saving app for young adults. What do all these things have in common? They’re products pitched by students from the…
New Our Chatham/ Chatham News + Record podcast will focus on adolescent mental health
The Chatham News + Record and Our Chatham—the Reese News Lab student-staffed news initiative—have joined forces on a podcast venture called The Chatcast, which will explore newsworthy Chatham County topics over a season of episodes. The first season, “The Age…
PODCAST: Penny Abernathy talks sustainability in local news
Michael O’Connell of the It’s All Journalism podcast caught up with Penny Abernathy on Nov. 19 for an interview after the UNC Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics’s moderation of a panel on the future of local news…
Ida B. Wells Society and UNC Hussman launch partnership with inaugural event
The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media hosted a remarkable event Saturday, Nov. 16, launching its partnership with the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting. The program featured the society’s co-founders Nikole Hannah-Jones ’03 (M.A.), domestic correspondent at The New York…
Penny Abernathy talks about the decline of local news on new Gallup podcast
LISTEN to this “Out of the Echo Chamber” podcast in which UNC Hussman Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Economics Penny Abernathy explores the decline of local news with host Jonathan T. Rothwell. Abernathy’s chat with Rothwell comes on the…
A look at the goals and challenges of Table Stakes participants at UNC
As the UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media gears up for the second meeting of the third cohort of the UNC-Knight Foundation Newsroom Initiative in October, participating media organizations share what challenges they face and hope to conquer during…
Our Chatham to take part in event on hunger with Carolina Public Press Oct. 25
Our Chatham, the student-staffed Reese News Lab news service that delivers news to Chatham County, North Carolina, via a website and newsletter, uses audience-driven reporting as one way to reach readers. Events are another. On Oct. 25, 2019, Our Chatham…
First joint event sponsored by two UNC Knight Centers
The first joint event sponsored by UNC’s two Knight Centers was held Thursday, Oct. 3 at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media. The Center for Information, Technology and Public Life and the Center for Innovation and Sustainability in…
Poynter, Better News detail News Reporter’s Table Stakes-influenced revenue and readership growth
The News Reporter in Whiteville, N.C., a member of Cohort 1 of the UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative, was in the news recently for the success they’ve achieved adapting to a digital-first mindset, utilizing principles they learned during the…