Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media
UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media
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…
Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics Penny Abernathy was interviewed on the HearSay with Cathy Lewis podcast to discuss how to address media coverage in news deserts across the country. “In small- and mid-sized towns, newspapers have been…
Susan King, the dean of the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, recently joined Report for America’s president and co-founder Steve Waldman, as well as Report for America journalist Alexandra Watts for a discussion about the future of local…
The UNC System collaborated with the team of Steven King, assistant professor at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, and the SeeBoundless company to produce the Gear Up app. The virtual reality app allows students to remotely tour…
A body positivity website. An enhanced set of platforms for a working-mom podcast. A networking site for freelancers. A food money-saving app for young adults. What do all these things have in common? They’re products pitched by students from the…
The Chatham News + Record and Our Chatham—the Reese Innovation Lab student-staffed news initiative—have joined forces on a podcast venture called The Chatcast, which will explore newsworthy Chatham County topics over a season of episodes. The first season, “The Age…
Michael O’Connell of the It’s All Journalism podcast caught up with Penny Abernathy on Nov. 19 for an interview after the UNC Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics’s moderation of a panel on the future of local news…
The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media hosted a remarkable event Saturday, Nov. 16, launching its partnership with the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting. The program featured the society’s co-founders Nikole Hannah-Jones ’03 (M.A.), domestic correspondent at The New York…
LISTEN to this “Out of the Echo Chamber” podcast in which UNC Hussman Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Economics Penny Abernathy explores the decline of local news with host Jonathan T. Rothwell. Abernathy’s chat with Rothwell comes on the…
As the UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media gears up for the third meeting of the third cohort of the UNC-Knight Foundation Newsroom Initiative in February, participating media organizations share what challenges they face and hope to…