Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media
UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media
Sesame Street looks nothing like its humble beginnings. More than 4,000 episodes after its 1969 start, Sesame Street’s home is premium cable, not public broadcasting. Throughout its history, Sesame Street has leaned toward being adaptable. While its partnership with HBO…
This Forbes piece examines a paradox of the coronavirus pandemic: While COVID-19 is one of the biggest stories of a generation, spiking readership and viewership of almost every type of media, advertising dollars — still a main revenue source for…
A recent Q&A with PEN America spotlighted the COVID-19 coverage of Scalawag Magazine, a member of Cohort 1 of the UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative. Part of PEN America’s “Local Journalist Heroes” series, the piece highlights the work of…
Sling TV has continued its momentum as a front-runner of the streaming TV pack. Even more customers are turning to online avenues to view programming. Of an estimated 5 million subscribers, nearly half chose the Dish Network service as their provider. But despite…
Poynter’s Kristen Hare examines how a two-person weekly in Virginia — the Greene County Record — is innovating to cover the COVID-19 pandemic in a piece that cites the U.S. News Deserts research of UNC Knight Chair in Journalism and…
UNC-TV, a three-time participant in the UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Initiative, is providing free, curriculum-informed content for North Carolina students, over-the-air and streamed online. By executive order of the governor, public schools across North Carolina are closed due to COVID-19…
Self-care and wellness applications on smartphones have been booming. According to Forbes, the self-help industry rakes in $9.9 billion annually in the United States alone – and much of that is generated from online and app-based revenue. After leaving the Huffington…
Our Chatham was born less than two years ago. UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media Associate Professor Ryan Thornburg had an idea — and around June of 2018, he brought it to a Reese News Lab student, Alexis Allston,…
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.…
Nieman Lab covered the March 18, 2020, announcement of Project Oasis, the Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media (CISLM) partnership with the Google News Initiative, LION Publishers and Doug Smith to identify, share and implement the best practices…