Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media
UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media
Penelope Muse Abernathy, Knight Chair in Journalism & Digital Economics, will lead a series of workshops at the Texas Center for Community Journalism at Texas Christian University this Friday, October 13, 2017. Abernathy will share insights gleaned from decades of…
An industry changing as quickly as the journalism and media industry must develop new ways of doing business in order to survive. Open data may be a very significant piece of that puzzle. Ryan Thornburg, director of the Reese Innovation…
Recent hurricanes in Texas, Florida and Mexico have made this year the worst since 2005 in terms of number of storms and storm strength. In parts of eastern North Carolina, residents are sympathetic to those affected by Hurricanes Harvey…
Over the summer, five recent UNC-Chapel Hill School of Media and Journalism graduates led projects at local media companies in North Carolina to help them embrace new technologies and respond to changing consumer needs. The Reese Innovation Lab, managed by…
Earlier this year, the Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media hosted a symposium entitled “Thwarting the Emergence of News Deserts” at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The program for the symposium centered around Penelope Muse Abernathy’s groundbreaking report, The Rise of a…
The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media and Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media welcome Melody Kramer to the Carolina Data Desk team. She is the first Reese Innovation Lab Fellow helping local media outlets embrace and…
The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi published a story investigating East Palo Alto and the hole leftover by a disappearance of local newsrooms, or a “news desert.” When newsrooms shutter, how does a community know about itself and what happens to…
Penelope Muse Abernathy spoke with Oliver Broudy on his podcast Let’s Be Reasonable about the reasons behind the downsizing of community newspapers, and in this case, the Hampshire Gazette. While journalism has received a boost in popularity and support since…
One of a regular series of articles that highlights research in the academy and the profession on the emerging threat of news deserts or changes in media ownership. Who and what shapes the news stories that are ultimately published or…
One of a regular series of articles that highlights research in the academy and the profession on the emerging threat of news deserts or changes in media ownership. Who is more inclined to read local versus national or international news?…