Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media
UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media
The pace of newspaper closures, mergers and bankruptcies appears to be accelerating as both chains and independent newspaper owners face unrelenting economic challenges, and the largest companies shed underperforming assets. Since publication of the 2018 report, The Expanding News Desert, UNC researchers have uncovered an additional 200 shuttered papers. Almost…
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Introduction In 2019, Yahoo isn’t even Yahoo anymore. As part of its 2017 merger with Verizon, the company’s brand was folded into a new media conglomerate called Oath. The deal married Yahoo’s content platforms with some remaining AOL brands that…
How do you know what your audience wants? You ask them. Online, at community meetings or in the middle of a farmers’ market with a clipboard in your hand—that’s where Alexis Allston stood last summer in Chatham County, as she…
In this interview, Penny Abernathy tells television station WBTV Charlotte how the growing expanses of the U.S.—often rural, often poor—without newspapers risk the compromise of the very basics of democracy and civic engagement. “We’re missing out on the vital information…
What happens when a town loses its newspaper? Staff writer Nicole McNeill traces the rise and fall of The Chapel Hill News, which served the community surrounding the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for nearly 100 years. The…
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