The Emerging Technologies Lab at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media recently lent their talents to a Time Magazine app that lets viewers see inside the heart of the Amazon Rain forest, which is vanishing at a rapid…
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King unveils robotic journalist at ONA conference in New Orleans
Technology is changing every aspect of 21st-century journalism, including who (or what) can be called a journalist. This week, Associate Professor Steven King unveiled RoboJ, an experimental robot journalist he developed, at the Online News Association‘s annual conference being held in New…
Penny Abernathy named as 2019 Welles Memorial Prize winner for News Deserts research
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…
CISLM welcomes Cohort 3 of the UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative
The UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media welcomed 13 media organizations this week for the third cohort of the UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative. The initiative focuses on audience engagement and creating sustainable revenue streams during…
Our Chatham community conversation set for Sept. 11 in Siler City
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 Sept. 11, Our Chatham will…
King to help find (hidden) stars of science with Morehead Planetarium
Steven King, chief innovation officer for the Reese News Lab, will lend his virtual reality expertise to a 5-year $2.86 million grant project recently awarded to Morehead Planetarium & Science Center by the National Science Foundation. The Morehead Planetarium project,…
Better News profiles UNC Table Stakes participant The Daily Tar Heel’s collaboration with Duke University’s The Chronicle
How the UNC-Duke rivalry helped two nonprofit student newspapers collaborate — and make revenue
Competing in a Networked World: How Newsrooms Are Joining Forces
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…
Case Study: Netflix
Introduction As Netflix heads into 2019, it is showing great promise in the international markets. It has invested in its Indian headquarters – and in February 2019, it announced the intention to open a Toronto hub. However, Netflix investors expressed concern as…
Case Study: Facebook
Facebook began 2018 as one of the hottest tech stocks to buy. Less than six years after a $38 IPO, some investors thought Facebook could climb as high as $230 per share. However, on the final trading day of 2018,…