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5 takeaways from the 2025 Local Journalism Researchers Workshop
The 2025 workshop highlighted the importance of inclusive, community-engaged research and the importance of connecting this research with the larger journalism field.
Jessica Mahone named interim director of CISLM
At CISLM, Mahone has led studies on labor issues, newsroom unionization, information ecosystem mapping and more.
Ad buyers’ takeaways: 11 tactics for generating revenue
Here are 11 quick recommendations for North Carolina media companies looking to make more money, in no particular order.
Diversity Audit for NC Newsrooms: Recommendations from the analysts
The diversity audit analysts who consulted on the Diversity Audit for NC Newsrooms did more than simply provide their own perspective of journalism diversity in North Carolina. They dug deep within their own experiences and the data provided to ask…
Introducing Project Oasis: New research and strategies for digital news startups
In partnership with the Google News Initiative, LION Publishers and Douglas K. Smith, the UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media (CISLM) has released the results of the most extensive look in a decade at the emerging digital…
Carolina Public Press fills gaps left by traditional newsrooms
When reporter Angie Newsome ’03 (M.A.) left the Asheville Citizen-Times in 2011, there wasn’t a single investigative or political reporter working the western side of the state. “There was a fair amount of frustration that traditional newsrooms would say, ‘No…
Project Oasis
The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media’s Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media (CISLM) is partnering with the Google News Initiative, LION Publishers and Doug Smith to create Project Oasis – a dynamic new endeavor to identify, share and implement the best practices that…
Raising the stakes to ensure local news thrives
A new $2.23 million Knight Foundation investment will support the UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local News and Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative By LaSharah S. Bunting and Susan Leath The News Reporter, a newspaper in Whiteville, N.C., with a proud history…
UNC announces newest cohort for UNC-Knight Foundation Table Stakes Newsroom Initiative
The Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media (CISLM) and the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, in partnership with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, announced the 14 media organizations participating in its fourth cohort…