Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media
UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media
The UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media welcomed 13 media organizations this week for the third cohort of the UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative. The initiative focuses on audience engagement and creating sustainable revenue streams during…
Our Chatham, the student-staffed Reese Innovation Lab news service that delivers news to Chatham County, North Carolina, via a website and newsletter, uses audience-driven reporting as one way to reach readers. Events are another. On Sept. 11, Our Chatham will host…
Steven King, chief innovation officer for the Reese Innovation Lab, will lend his virtual reality expertise to a five-year $2.86 million grant project recently awarded to Morehead Planetarium & Science Center by the National Science Foundation. The Morehead Planetarium project,…
How the UNC-Duke rivalry helped two nonprofit student newspapers collaborate — and make revenue
Through formal partnerships news organizations can produce in-depth, investigative and analytical pieces that they would not have been able to do on their own. These two case studies explore two different journalistic collaborations between very different news organizations. In the…
Revolutionary new technologies are compelling news organizations to recreate their business models or be left in history’s wake. The Strategic Digital Media Entrepreneur is packed with practical insights and guidance on all aspects of the business of media. Explore case…
UNC’s University Communications recently ran a story about UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media Assistant Professor Steven King‘s “Adventure Squad” app, an augmented reality video game that keeps hospitalized pediatric patients mobile and empowered, allowing them to play an interactive…
CISLM’s Penny Abernathy’s news deserts research is heavily cited in this article about McClatchy creating a local news outlet to serve Youngstown, Ohio, just weeks after the city’s daily newspaper, The Vindicator, announced it would be closing. McClatchy’s investment marks…
As part of an ongoing series of articles profiling success stories of the Table Stakes Newsroom initiative, Better News examined the collaboration led by Carolina Public Press of 11 North Carolina media organizations that investigated sexual assault conviction rates in…
Learn more about the dramatic loss of newspapers in recent years and the news barons who are transforming the industry. The Expanding News Desert, identifies the U.S. communities most at risk and delves into the implications for the news profession and…