The Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media provides current and future media leaders with the tools and analysis to succeed in a rapidly changing environment.
The UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative helps advance media organizations through digital transformation and development of sustainable business models.
The yearlong program helped media organizations identify challenges and opportunities, as well as create sustainable solutions to survive and thrive in the digital age.
Elections Funnel Training Series
Spanning throughout 2024, this hybrid program helped 11 newsrooms across the Southeast convert key audiences and new readers into loyal news consumers.
Partnerships to train local journalists
We often work with other news and journalism support organizations to create targeted, timely trainings, using UNC-Chapel Hill as a central meeting point.
Latest Education blogs
Lee Shaker: How are millennial attitudes shaped around local news?
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?…
UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative aims to strengthen local media in the face of disruption
Eight news organizations in North Carolina — including digital startups, radio stations, TV stations and newspapers — have been selected to participate in a program launched by the UNC-Knight Foundation Newsroom Initiative in partnership with the UNC Center for Innovation &…
Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media announces March 28th symposium – “Thwarting the Emergence of News Deserts”
The Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media will present a symposium entitled “Thwarting the Emergence of News Deserts,” on Tuesday, March 28, at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. The program for this…