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Reese Innovation Lab students pitch the news products of tomorrow
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…
New Our Chatham/ Chatham News + Record podcast will focus on adolescent mental health
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…
PODCAST: Penny Abernathy talks sustainability in local news
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…
Penny Abernathy talks about the decline of local news on new Gallup podcast
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…
CISLM (virtually) welcomes back third Table Stakes cohort
As the UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media gears up for the Aug. 25-26 virtual meeting of the third cohort of the UNC-Knight Foundation Newsroom Initiative, take a look back at this piece in which participating media…
Our Chatham to take part in event on hunger with Carolina Public Press Oct. 25
Our Chatham, the student-staffed Reese News Lab news service that delivers news to Chatham County, North Carolina, via a website and newsletter, uses audience-driven reporting as one way to reach readers. Events are another. On Oct. 25, 2019, Our Chatham…
Annika Sehl: How can public broadcasters become more digitally savvy?
Spotlight on Research A Broader Framework for the News Industry Questions with Annika Sehl 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…
First joint event sponsored by two UNC Knight Centers
The first joint event sponsored by UNC’s two Knight Centers was held Thursday, Oct. 3 at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media. The Center for Information, Technology and Public Life and the Center for Innovation and Sustainability in…
UNC journalism school gets new name after largest gift ever
The Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media has been housed in the school since 2015. Formerly the UNC School of Media and Journalism, the institution underwent a name change after the largest gift ever in its history since…
County residents find community-building value in Our Chatham event
When Karen Howard’s family moved back to their native Bahamas during her childhood, her parents made a point of reading the local newspaper with their children. Now, as an adult, Howard knows that strong local news sources will help Chatham…
Emerging Technologies Lab part of team behind Time magazine AR app documenting loss of Amazon Rain Forest
The Emerging Technologies Lab at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media recently lent their talents to a Time Magazine app that lets viewers see inside the heart of the Amazon Rain forest, which is vanishing at a rapid…
King unveils robotic journalist at ONA conference in New Orleans
Technology is changing every aspect of 21st-century journalism, including who (or what) can be called a journalist. This week, Associate Professor Steven King unveiled RoboJ, an experimental robot journalist he developed, at the Online News Association‘s annual conference being held in New…