Knight Chair Penny Muse Abernathy delivered the 18th annual Huck Boyd Lecture in Community Media last week to an audience of journalists, media executives and concerned Kansas citizens. Afterwards, Abernathy appeared…
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Interested in helping save community newspapers? The UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media is hiring a paid intern to research community newspapers between May and August, 2018….
By Knight Chair Penelope Muse Abernathy There’s been a lot of buzz in the press recently, including Nieman Lab, Washington Post and DFM Workers prior to and following Politico’s recent…
Did declining newspaper circulation give president Donald Trump a boost in the 2016 election? A Politico special report found a clear correlation between low subscription rates at the county level…
What’s Happening in Newspaper Ownership: January-March 2018 This is one of a series of quarterly updates about changes in newspaper ownership, based on the research conducted by Knight Chair in…
Spotlight on Research Is the Digital Content Bubble About to Burst? Questions with Tom Nicholls One of a regular series of articles that highlights research in the academy and in…
The integrity surrounding elections systems has become a hot topic and as a result, experienced data reporters are increasingly in demand. Ryan Thornburg wants to help build spaces where students,…
Steven King, Chief Innovation Officer of the Reese News Lab and the Emerging Technologies Lab, spent his Spring Break in Austin, Texas, at the South by Southwest festival (SXSW) where…
The Reese News Lab at the University of North Carolina’s School of Media and Journalism is seeking a full-stack news application developer to help build and maintain new media products…
Jed Williams ’10 (M.A.) lives and breathes the business of local media. On February 6, Williams returned to the UNC School of Media and Journalism leading a group of media…
