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
11 news organizations join Elections Funnel training series
CISLM will welcome 11 news organizations to UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media this week for a training series that will help them meet the moment of the 2024 elections.
Apply to The Elections Funnel workshop
Join us for The Elections Funnel, a tactical training series focused on using funnel discipline to drive audiences to high-quality elections coverage and convert them for the long haul.
‘Tar Heel Bus Tour’ stop spotlights rural news solutions
The Whiteville News Reporter and High’s Border Belt Independent co-hosted the stop about rural local news on the 2023 Tar Heel Bus Tour East.
On the balcony: Leadership lessons with Sarah Nagem
CISLM is looking back at six years in local news transformation: “Is this a story that really needs to be told, and will it make a difference? And (Table Stakes) really helped me step back and focus on those questions.”