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June 7, 2019
Illustration by Melinda Szekeres By Jessica Mahone Relationships between newsrooms and researchers can make local journalism better. But it takes work, listening and regular communication. Those were some of the…
June 6, 2019
How does a small public radio newsroom produce revelatory work with depth and impact? The answers show the challenge and also how it can be done.
March 25, 2019
Photo of Hurricane Florence from the International Space Station by astronaut Alexander Gerst, creative commons/flickr.com In the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, communities across Eastern North Carolina are beginning to heal…
March 20, 2019
Paola Jaramillo and Walter Gómez cofounded the nonprofit Enlace Latino NC with ambitious aims: To provide a digital-first service for North Carolina's Spanish-speaking residents covering legislative and government policy on…
March 4, 2019
This guest post by Damon Kiesow, Knight Chair at The Missouri School of Journalism, was originally posted at Medium. It has been republished here with permission. News is not…
February 12, 2019
GroundTruth Project, Civil Beat, Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, inewsource The last month has been a difficult one for journalism in America. In a span of just two weeks roughly …
February 11, 2019
How the Colorado Media Project will work to strengthen local news Sanford “Whitey” Watzman at his desk at The Cleveland Plain Dealer, sometime in the 1950s. This post…
February 6, 2019
“Keeping “the citizens agenda” at the center of coverage doesn’t take big polls or fancy platforms: Sometimes, it’s as simple as listening to what people in your community are…
November 8, 2018
“I love public records, documents, data, ways to connect narratives to empiricism” This blog post is part of an ongoing series sharing stories from North Carolina Local News Lab…
