Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media
UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media
Throughout history, newspapers have had to adapt to constantly changing business conditions. This excerpt is from an article published in the SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society, which will serve as a reference for undergraduate and graduate students.…
Robyn Tomlin is the Executive Editor at the News & Observer and Southeast Regional Editor for McClatchy. A Carolina native, Tomlin majored in journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill and was an editor of the Daily Tar Heel. She went on to become the…
One of a regular series of articles that highlights research in the academy and the profession on the emerging threat of news deserts or changes in media ownership. These are questions with Annika Sehl, a research fellow at Reuters Institute…
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…
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…