By Catherine Komp, Engagement Director For decades, Bill Adair’s days and nights have been filled with a quest to promote truth and squash lies. The longtime journalist founded PolitiFact in 2007 as a solution to a news and information gap:…
By Catherine Komp, Engagement Director Thomas Calder can’t quite remember where the idea came from. The managing editor at Asheville’s Mountain Xpress has been thinking about election coverage all year. They always put together a comprehensive voter guide ahead of…
By Catherine Komp, Engagement Director The Food Section’s Publisher and Editor Hanna Raskin is part of CUNY’s inaugural Emerging News Leadership Program and at their first gathering earlier this year, the topic of election night pizza came up. “And it…
By Catherine Komp Engagement Director In August 2011, Peter Vankevich was anxious. He has just bought a house on Ocracoke and was looking for news on Hurricane Irene’s impacts on the island. “We were worried about it and I wasn’t…
By Catherine Komp Newsletter Editor For The Pilot, 2024 is a special year — it has 13 months, as far as revenue is concerned. “I don’t know any news organization that said, ‘Hey, we’re going to set a goal of…
By Catherine Komp, Newsletter Editor Sometimes all it takes is a brief note to spark a big idea. Last year, EdNC’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Mebane Rash got a package in the mail from their former Chief of Staff Analisa Sorrells.…
By Catherine Komp, NC Local Newsletter Editor Six years ago, award-winning journalist and news leader Melanie Sill saw a gap that needed to be filled in the news and information ecosystem: In NC, and nationally, local news is under tremendous…
By Catherine Komp Newsletter Editor Last year, Charlotte Ledger Executive Editor Tony Mecia was approached by someone in the community with an interesting proposal: did he want to collaborate on a voter guide? Sucharita Kodali spent her days as a…
By Catherine Komp, NC Local Newsletter Editor It’s been another defining year for the North Carolina news and information ecosystem. From Murphy to Manteo, the efforts of journalists, civic information advocates, open government champions, technologists, audience teams, educators, researchers, funders…
By Catherine Komp, NC Local Newsletter Editor Nonprofits across North Carolina reported $82 billion in revenue on their most recent tax filings, according to ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer. If nonprofits were classified as a sector, they’d be in the top five…