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Microsoft: An update on our effort to help preserve and protect journalism

Last week, the Pulitzer Prizes recognized the 105th class of journalists winning awards for reporting on some of the most important issues of our time: the pandemic, racial inequity and the integrity … more

Mary Snapp-Microsoft Vice President, Strategic Initiatives | 6/17/21

Project Tell Me's Lift Every Voice: Sharing Important Black Voices and Stories

Project Tell Me’s Lift Every Voice is a new initiative that showcases conversations between young Black journalists and the oldest generation of Black Americans. Conceived by Hearst … more

Yael Bame | 6/17/21

PUBLIC BODIES BREAKING THE LAW IN THE NAME OF THE PANDEMIC

If you are covering a public body that has resumed meeting in person but is forcing you to participate remotely, they are breaking the law. Over the past year, the pandemic … more

Beth Soja beth@smvt.com | 6/17/21

North Carolina is an outlier among states in keeping so much information about government employees shrouded in secrecy.

This secrecy is at odds with North Carolina's otherwise broad commitment to principles of government transparency that promote our informed democracy. In other areas of public records law, … more

6/11/21

Campaign Finance Data Training: Sign up Now!

In partnership with the Open Raleigh Brigade of Code for America and the NC Local News Workshop, the North Carolina Open Government Coalition will host a free training event to help journalists and … more

6/8/21

USPS announces postage rate increase

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — May 28, 2021 Contact: Tonda Rush, tonda@nna.org NEWS OF STARKLY HIGHER POSTAGE RATES GREETS AMERICAN PUBLIC AT START OF HOLIDAY WEEKEND The United … more

6/2/21

9 ways newsrooms can incorporate more audio in their work

In 2021, the media platform with the highest weekly reach in the United States is audio. Data published last month by Nielsen revealed that radio — just one component of this medium … more

6/1/21

NC senators: Personnel records on educators, police and others shouldn’t be secret

It’s no secret that disciplinary records of taxpayer-funded employees are kept behind lock and key. That shroud of secrecy prevents the public from finding out why a teacher moves from school … more

NORMAN SANDERSON, BILL RABON AND JOYCE KRAWIEC | 5/27/21

Paxton Media Group buying Landmark Community Newspapers

Paxton Media Group is buying Landmark Community Newspapers, including all 47 newspapers in the Shelbyville, Kentucky-based chain. The sale, announced Wednesday, will give Paducah-based Paxton … more

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | 5/27/21

Longtime Observer photographer, ‘one of the great action sports shooters,’ dead at 52

Foster — a cigar-chomping, UNC Tar Heel-loving bear of a man who was an award-winning staff photographer and videographer for the Observer for the better part of three decades — was found … more

5/27/21

Why are Democrats AWOL on public’s right to know?

With no meaningful state law giving North Carolinians the right to see disciplinary records of those they employ in state and local government jobs, how will we ever know? How will we know … more

PAUL MAUNEY and BILL MOSS | 5/20/21

Les High, legacy publisher in North Carolina, establishes center for local investigative journalism

Les High, publisher of The News Reporter, a family newspaper in Whiteville, North Carolina, has founded The Border Belt Center, a burgeoning nonprofit journalism organization that will begin … more

Teri Saylor | 5/12/21

The NCPA rebuttal to NCAE's campaign of misinformation

The NC Press Association 1) corrects the misinformation in NCAE's letter about the public records laws in other states (where virtually complete public access to the entire government personnel file … more

5/10/21

Transparency of operations is a Constitutional issue

Senate Bill 355, legislation that promotes and enhances public access to the performance records of public employees, is generating significant resistance from various state organizations that have … more

Carteret County News Times Editorial | 5/7/21

CNHI acquires The Transylvania Times in North Carolina

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- CNHI, LLC has acquired The Transylvania Times of Brevard, North Carolina, from The Transylvania Times, Inc., a family-owned company for the past 80 years. The sale … more

5/6/21

Iowa Newsrooms Unite To Produce Investigative Series

Video can change the course of history. Americans witnessed that fact with the George Floyd trial and the murder conviction of a police officer in Minneapolis. Now we’re seeing the use of … more

Tom Silvestri - Relevance Project | 5/6/21

Beacon publisher Angie Sutton bids adieu

Spring is my favorite time of year. It’s a reminder of how beautiful change can be. This spring, change for me meant much more than blooming flowers and warm sunshine. It was the start of a new … more

Angie Sutton | 4/30/21

Elizabeth City curfew update for journalists

Elizabeth City Mayor Bettie Parker declared a State of Emergency that was amended on April 27 to impose a city-wide curfew from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. This statement is to clarify that the curfew is not … more

4/29/21

How publishers can leverage Clubhouse, TikTok and other emergent social media

Whether considered a possible threat to national security or the elitist cousin to the billion-dollar podcast industry, newer social media sites like TikTok and Clubhouse continue creating a buzz. … more

Ali Gordon, Lineup Systems | 4/23/21

NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION VOICE THEIR SUPPORT FOR SENATE BILL 355, THE “GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY ACT OF 2021,” AND URGE ITS PASSAGE

The North Carolina Association of Broadcasters (NCAB) 1 and the North Carolina Press Association (NCPA)2 strongly support the Government Transparency Act of 2021 – Senate Bill 355 – … more

4/1/21