Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media
UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media
“You can’t move “to” if you don’t know where you’re starting “from,” and for most news organizations, their current reality, “from” is participation in community harm, neglect, or both.” — Cierra Hinton and Lizzy Hazeltine, from their Anti-Racist Table Stakes…
“Nobody to our knowledge had looked at the region as a whole and tried looking at doing a deep dive into news and information ecosystem and needs of particular communities within one of our key regions in the state.”
The goal of Pasa La Voz Noticias is to connect Latinx communities in South Carolina and Georgia with reliable, up-to-date news and information.
“I would hope giving them the support and capacity to do their most meaningful work should ease working conditions, improve the journalism and strengthen communities.”
“Having local new news sources is one way to maintain communities in a geographic sense that is, I think, harder to maintain in a more globalized era.”
For his graduate thesis, Ely Portillo explored how six different media organizations covered the pandemic in an era of shrinking newsrooms.
“If you are a journalist or (leading) a newsroom, I will definitely suggest that you talk to immigrant audiences more often.”
“I was asking, why is it that after all these decades, academia has not yet helped the news industry solve this business model crisis yet?”
Raised in a family of educators, CISLM Graduate Student Researcher Jordan Davis was taught to value any opportunity to learn new skills.
Journalists, academics and news professionals traveled to Elon University to report updates on their respective works and share ideas on sustainability in local news.
“There are really brilliant folks who are working to right those wrongs and build something that’s better. I think that’s incredibly exciting.”