This Better News piece profiles how UNC-TV — a member of all three cohorts of the UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative — is building a new and larger audience by producing digital content while staying committed to its traditional…
Author: Beth Hatcher (page 6)
CITAP speaker examines algorithms
Why does YouTube seem to know just what you want to watch? How can Google fill in your search questions before you even finish them? Where does Facebook find out what ads it thinks you’d like? One world: algorithms. They’re…
The New Yorker: What happens when the news is gone?
This New Yorker piece quotes UNC Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Penny Abernathy in a look at news deserts through the lens of Jones County, North Carolina. From the article: “Penny Abernathy, a professor of journalism at the…
Poynter features Gannett project inspired by UNC Table Stakes initiative
This Poynter piece examines a newly launched Gannett feature called The American South. A Cohort 3 member of our UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative, Gannett launched the feature section to tell stories about the South from the South, exploring…
UNC Table Stakes participants awarded grants for COVID-19 coverage
Several participants of the UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative — past and present — are among 400 local news organizations nationwide receiving grants to support coronavirus coverage. The Lenfest Institute, in partnership with the Facebook Journalism Project, Local Media…
Better News profiles UNC Table Stakes participant WFAE’s community podcast competition
This Better News piece profiles how Charlotte NPR station WFAE, a member of Cohort 1 of the UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative, used a community podcast competition to diversify its audience. The Queen City PodQuest is an opportunity for people…
Our Chatham/ Chatham News + Record community convo culminates joint adolescent mental health podcast
A forum focusing on mental health and co-hosted by Our Chatham and the Chatham News + Record took place at Central Carolina Community College in Pittsboro, North Carolina, Jan. 22. Our Chatham is the audience-driven news service produced by students…
Four UNC Table Stakes participants part of N.C. News Collaborative
Kristen Hare of Poynter references the U.S. news deserts research of Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics Penny Abernathy in this article about the North Carolina News Collaborative (NCNC.) Composed of twenty-two North Carolina newspapers, the collaborative formed…
Reese Innovation Lab to help build collaborative local news platform for Google News Initiative project
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…
PODCAST: Penny Abernathy appears on HearSay with Cathy Lewis
Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics Penny Abernathy was interviewed on the HearSay with Cathy Lewis podcast to discuss how to address media coverage in news deserts across the country. “In small- and mid-sized towns, newspapers have been…