The North Carolina Press Foundation has set aside funds to support the litigation efforts of NCPA members, including pre-litigation legal assistance and litigation.
NCPA members may …
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3/1/21
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Contact: Philip Lucey, NCPA Executive Director. phil@ncpress.com
Friday, February 26, 2021NCPA Virtual Convention
(Raleigh, NC) North Carolina Press Association members were honored during the …
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2/26/21
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Eddie Lane Fitzgerald died on February 10, 2021 at Kinston Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. Eddie was born in Kinston on (January 23, 1959) to parents Hawthorne and Mildred Fitzgerald. …
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2/23/21
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Citing a “substantial failure to comply” with state public records law, Judge John W. Smith sided in civil superior court Monday with a coalition of four media outlets, including …
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THOMAS SHERRILL
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2/12/21
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A newspaper editor with more than three decades of experience has been named editor of The Sanford Herald.
Mark Rogers, 57, of Archdale, began his duties Monday.
“I’m excited to …
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2/10/21
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Forsyth County prosecutors asked a judge Friday to prevent state records on the death of Forsyth County jail inmate John Neville from being released to The News & Observer.
The …
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DANIELLE BATTAGLIA
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2/5/21
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Like a bad penny, legislation to hide public notices from the public is back in N.C. General Assembly.
House members have filed separate bills that would allow 14 counties in the Piedmont and …
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Philip M. Lucey
NC Press Association
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2/4/21
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DTH Media Corp., parent company of The Daily Tar Heel, settled its lawsuit against the UNC System over allegations of violating state Open Meetings Law on Monday.
As part of …
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Anna Pogarcic
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2/3/21
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Mike Yopp spent most of his life molding generations of journalists. But his legacy as a mentor and leader began when he was just a young journalist himself.
Yopp died from a stroke Thursday at …
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LUCILLE SHERMAN
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2/3/21
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A robust online directory of funders and grant opportunities for journalism, started by a news executive in Raleigh, N.C., will move to a new home beginning Feb. 1 as part of the NewsFuel program at …
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1/28/21
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The North Carolina Open Government Coalition supported and released a new project Friday that allows for a new understanding of the players that fund state campaigns in North Carolina and how federal …
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1/15/21
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A trio of Gannett publications tucked into North Carolina’s Piedmont area – The Times-News in Burlington, The Courier-Tribune in Asheboro and The Dispatch in Lexington – recently …
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1/12/21
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NC TRIAD — YES! Weekly , the oldest and largest circulated alternative weekly newspaper in the North Carolina Piedmont Triad region, is getting a change in leadership. Chanel …
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1/8/21
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Jeff Wagner hardly knew what to tell his delivery driver when the man returned one day in late December from a run to the post office in their northern Nebraska town with a trailer still full of …
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Jacob Bogage Washington Post
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1/5/21
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Tom Bennett, a retired journalist, advocate of speech and press freedoms, historian of daily newspapers in Atlanta, environmental columnist for The Cherokee Scout, and a disabled Army veteran, died …
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1/4/21
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Report for America has become a local enterprise, as the nonprofit organization announced that Mountain Times Publications had successfully applied for a RFA reporter to join the newsgroup in June …
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12/30/20
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Somewhere out there, Randolph A. Shotwell is having a good laugh.
Or maybe he's spinning in his grave just a touch.
Shotwell, you see, founded this newspaper 150 years ago — actually, …
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John Boyle
Asheville Citizen Times
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12/26/20
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Stella Anderson Trapp, who published and edited The Transylvania Times for more than 30 years and loved Transylvania County with all her heart, died Thursday, Dec. 17, at …
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12/22/20
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GRAHAM — Three newspapers have asked the North Carolina Court of Appeals to order courts in a county where rally-goers were pepper sprayed and arrested to stop barring reporters from court …
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12/18/20
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John A. Lynch, who served as the publisher of the StarNews from 1987 to 2000, has died. He was 83.
The cause was long-term pulmonary disease, said his son, Williams Brock Lynch of …
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12/7/20
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