Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media
UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Several participants of the UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative — past and present — are among 400 local news organizations nationwide receiving grants to support coronavirus coverage. The Lenfest Institute, in partnership with the Facebook Journalism Project, Local Media…
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…
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…
Kristen Hare of Poynter references the U.S. news deserts research of Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics Penny Abernathy in this article about the North Carolina News Collaborative (NCNC.) Composed of twenty-two North Carolina newspapers, the collaborative formed…
In the 1970s, when Ju-Don Marshall was 7, her family moved to the South Carolina Low Country from New York. Marshall had maternal roots in the area, deep in the African-American Gullah culture surrounding Charleston, but to a New York…