A new exhibit celebrating two centuries of North Carolina’s local news publications kicked off at the UNC Wilson Special Projects Library Feb. 27 with a talk by Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics Penny Abernathy, who shared her…
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WATCH: Penny Abernathy discusses journalism’s future on ‘Story in the Public Square’
UNC Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics Penny Abernathy recently appeared on the Pell Center’s “Story in the Public Square” program where she discussed her groundbreaking U.S. News Deserts research and her thoughts on journalism’s future. She stressed the need for today’s journalists…
Penny Abernathy to speak at UNC library exhibit celebrating local news
UNC Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics Penny Abernathy will give a talk celebrating the opening of the exhibition “Papers for the People: A Treasury of North Carolina News Sources” at UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library, on Feb.…
UNC Table Stakes participant wins industry innovation award
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, a Cohort 2 member of the UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative, recently won top honors at the Key Executives Mega-Conference in Ft. Worth, Texas. The Democrat-Gazette won the Mega-Innovation Award for an iPad initiative the newspaper refined…
Better News profiles UNC Table Stakes participant UNC-TV’s digital audience build
This Better News piece profiles how UNC-TV — a member of all three cohorts of the UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative — is building a new and larger audience by producing digital content while staying committed to its traditional…
CITAP speaker examines algorithms
Why does YouTube seem to know just what you want to watch? How can Google fill in your search questions before you even finish them? Where does Facebook find out what ads it thinks you’d like? One world: algorithms. They’re…
The New Yorker: What happens when the news is gone?
This New Yorker piece quotes UNC Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Penny Abernathy in a look at news deserts through the lens of Jones County, North Carolina. From the article: “Penny Abernathy, a professor of journalism at the…
Poynter features Gannett project inspired by UNC Table Stakes initiative
This Poynter piece examines a newly launched Gannett feature called The American South. A Cohort 3 member of our UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative, Gannett launched the feature section to tell stories about the South from the South, exploring…
Better News profiles UNC Table Stakes participant WFAE’s community podcast competition
This Better News piece profiles how Charlotte NPR station WFAE, a member of Cohort 1 of the UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative, used a community podcast competition to diversify its audience. The Queen City PodQuest is an opportunity for people…
Our Chatham/ Chatham News + Record community convo culminates joint adolescent mental health podcast
A forum focusing on mental health and co-hosted by Our Chatham and the Chatham News + Record took place at Central Carolina Community College in Pittsboro, North Carolina, Jan. 22. Our Chatham is the audience-driven news service produced by students…