By Catherine Komp, NC Local Newsletter Editor Brooklyn Brown has early memories of being featured in the Cherokee One Feather for her birthday or making the honor roll. Her grandma was an avid reader of the weekly paper covering the Eastern Band…
By Catherine Komp, NC Local Newsletter Editor Paul Hunton says one of the greatest surprises about his first year as president and general manager of WUNC is the job “came as advertised.” “What the search committee had talked about and…
By Catherine Komp, NC Local Editor When Paola Jaramillo and Walter Gómez launched Enlace Latino NC in 2018, they had extensive resumes in journalism and a $75,000 grant from the NC Local News Lab Fund. They also had a strong…
By Catherine Komp, NCLocal Editor In North Carolina, 1 in 3 adults, or nearly 2.5 million people live with a disability — higher than the national average of 1 in 4. “I think that in any sort of beat there…
By Catherine Komp, NC Local editor “Some [LGBTQ] papers have gone all digital, some papers have closed, I think it’s a testament to our staff and the readership that want the paper, that we’re still here. ‘Cause it has been…
By Eric Frederick, NC Local newsletter editor I got to talk the other day with Bill Horner III as he adjusted to his new life without the Chatham News + Record — which he and his partners, Kirk Bradley and…
By Eric Frederick, NC Local Newsletter Editor Of all things certain, you can depend on this: The media business hasn’t seen the last of Ted Williams. Williams’ passion for building businesses, and his success as a news entrepreneur in Charlotte,…
By Eric Frederick, NC Local Newsletter Editor Triad City Beat, a 9-year-old free news source based in Greensboro, is broadening its mission — while holding tight to its sensibilities as a feisty urban alt-weekly. TCB, which appears weekly in print…
Meredith Clark, associate professor at Northeastern University, and Tracie Powell, CEO and founder of The Pivot Fund, closed the 2023 NC News & Information with a keynote presentation based on their research examining the connections between race, journalism philanthropy and the…
Check out the full NC Local newsletter from December 7 for more from the Workshop, including industry news, job postings, news about North Carolina journalists and more. Sign up to get NC Local in your inbox every Wednesday. By Eric Frederick, NC Local Newsletter Editor…