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A Conversation with Paul Volpe of POLITICO
On April 5, the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media welcomed Paul Volpe to campus to share his experience working as the executive editor at POLITICO and, previously, as a journalist at The Washington Post and The New York…
Newsmaker Insights: What Happens When a Town is Left Without a Newspaper
Knight Chair Penny Muse Abernathy delivered the 18th annual Huck Boyd Lecture in Community Media last week to an audience of journalists, media executives and concerned Kansas citizens. Afterwards, Abernathy appeared on a panel discussing life in a community after the…
News Deserts: The North Carolina angle in the 2016 election
Did declining newspaper circulation give president Donald Trump a boost in the 2016 election? A Politico special report found a clear correlation between low subscription rates at the county level and Trump’s success in the 2016 election, both against Democratic…
What’s Happening in Newspaper Ownership: January-March 2018
What’s Happening in Newspaper Ownership: January-March 2018 This is one of a series of quarterly updates about changes in newspaper ownership, based on the research conducted by Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics Penelope Muse Abernathy and the…
Tom Nicholls: Is the Digital Content Bubble About to Burst?
Spotlight on Research Is the Digital Content Bubble About to Burst? Questions with Tom Nicholls One of a regular series of articles that highlights research in the academy and in the profession on the emerging threat of news deserts or…
Ryan Thornburg at NICAR: Why we need more data reporters
The integrity surrounding elections systems has become a hot topic and as a result, experienced data reporters are increasingly in demand. Ryan Thornburg wants to help build spaces where students, reporters and computer scientists can meet to learn from each…
Steven King lends insight to augmented reality panel at SXSW
Steven King, Chief Innovation Officer of the Reese News Lab and the Emerging Technologies Lab, spent his Spring Break in Austin, Texas, at the South by Southwest festival (SXSW) where he spoke about the use of augmented reality (AR) in…
Podcast: Jed Williams of Local Media Association is on an Innovation Mission
Jed Williams ’10 (M.A.) lives and breathes the business of local media. On February 6, Williams returned to the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media leading a group of media executives on an Innovation Mission, networking trips designed to…
Is local media ready for Augmented Reality?
Emerging technologies like augmented and virtual reality, 360 video and artificial intelligence are sweeping some media companies by storm, but the majority of newsrooms have not yet committed their limited resources of time and money to develop widespread usage. Are…
The state of data in newsrooms: Findings and recommendations
As part of Melody Kramer’s fellowship last fall, she has written a report detailing information gathered from speaking with journalists and newsrooms across North Carolina about how they use data or would like to use data. You can read a…
Zvi Reich and Yigal Godler: Do journalists still rely on shoe-leather reporting?
Spotlight on Research The impact of mythology and technology on how journalists gather information Questions with Zvi Reich and Yigal Godler One of a regular series of articles that highlights research in the academy and in the profession on the…
Does a newspaper’s owner affect its coverage of local elections?
Now that the dust has settled from last month’s elections, let’s consider how newspaper ownership shapes election coverage. Last year, Knight Chair Penelope Muse Abernathy and her research team looked at five newspapers in eastern North Carolina to measure how…