Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media
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UNC-TV, a three-time participant in the UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Initiative, is providing free, curriculum-informed content for North Carolina students, over-the-air and streamed online. By executive order of the governor, public schools across North Carolina are closed due to COVID-19…
Self-care and wellness applications on smartphones have been booming. According to Forbes, the self-help industry rakes in $9.9 billion annually in the United States alone – and much of that is generated from online and app-based revenue. After leaving the Huffington…
As media outlets across the nation work to cover COVID-19, the pandemic has highlighted the importance of local news. Publications across the nation have cited UNC Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics Penny Abernathy’s groundbreaking local news research…
This New York Times piece quotes Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics Penny Abernathy’s U.S. News Deserts research in a piece examining coronavirus’ effect on local news as the pandemic cuts off ads and live events, hitting outlets…
UNC Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics Penny Abernathy provided her insights for a three-part podcast series produced by Pew Charitable Trusts examining the issues facing local news and signs of hope for the industry’s future. The first…
The Knight Media Forum in Miami Feb. 26-28, 2020, featured participants in the UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative on a panel exploring Charlotte, North Carolina’s collaborative media environment. Glenn H. Burkins, founder and publisher of Qcity Metro, an independent,…
Successful media entrepreneurs know loyal and engaged customers lead to increased growth in customers and profits for their enterprise. Digital metrics offer media organizations unprecedented insights into audience habits, but must be used wisely to avoid publishing dubious content and…
UNC Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics Penny Abernathy recently appeared on the Pell Center’s “Story in the Public Square” program where she discussed her groundbreaking U.S. News Deserts research and her thoughts on journalism’s future. She stressed the need for today’s journalists…
UNC Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics Penny Abernathy will give a talk celebrating the opening of the exhibition “Papers for the People: A Treasury of North Carolina News Sources” at UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library, on Feb.…
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, a Cohort 2 member of the UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative, recently won top honors at the Key Executives Mega-Conference in Ft. Worth, Texas. The Democrat-Gazette won the Mega-Innovation Award for an iPad initiative the newspaper refined…