Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media
UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media
At this year’s University Day celebration on Oct. 12, 2019, Carolina presented UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media master’s alumna and former Park Fellow Nikole Hannah-Jones ’03 (M.A.) with one of its 2019 Distinguished Alumna and Alumnus Awards, which honors…
The Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media has been housed in the school since 2015. Formerly the UNC School of Media and Journalism, the institution underwent a name change after the largest gift ever in its history since…
The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business at the Columbia Journalism School today awarded Penny Abernathy, Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics at the University of North Carolina, the 2019 Christopher J. Welles Memorial Prize, for her unparalleled…
Through formal partnerships news organizations can produce in-depth, investigative and analytical pieces that they would not have been able to do on their own. These two case studies explore two different journalistic collaborations between very different news organizations. In the…
CISLM’s Penny Abernathy’s news deserts research is heavily cited in this article about McClatchy creating a local news outlet to serve Youngstown, Ohio, just weeks after the city’s daily newspaper, The Vindicator, announced it would be closing. McClatchy’s investment marks…
Learn more about the dramatic loss of newspapers in recent years and the news barons who are transforming the industry. The Expanding News Desert, identifies the U.S. communities most at risk and delves into the implications for the news profession and…
Introduction In 2019, Yahoo isn’t even Yahoo anymore. As part of its 2017 merger with Verizon, the company’s brand was folded into a new media conglomerate called Oath. The deal married Yahoo’s content platforms with some remaining AOL brands that…
In this interview, Penny Abernathy tells television station WBTV Charlotte how the growing expanses of the U.S.—often rural, often poor—without newspapers risk the compromise of the very basics of democracy and civic engagement. “We’re missing out on the vital information…
What happens when a town loses its newspaper? Staff writer Nicole McNeill traces the rise and fall of The Chapel Hill News, which served the community surrounding the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for nearly 100 years. The…
Utilizing a new visual, map-based email newsletter allowed for the Daily Press, a news organization in the Hampton Roads-Tidewater (VA) area, to increase unique clicks by 36% over the control email. The results of a six-week test suggest that…