After local police raided the office of the Marion County Record and the home of its owners, creating a national outcry that was entirely justified, the question was asked in newspaper offices around …
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Al Cross
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9/11/23
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FAYETTEVILLE — CityView, a Fayetteville-based online news organization, and The Assembly, a digital-first magazine covering power and place in North Carolina, have launched a strategic …
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8/28/23
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Gene Metrick, a veteran newspaperman and editor of The Rocky Mount Telegram since 2018, died Tuesday after battling cancer. He was 63.
Metrick was a beloved member of the Telegram …
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8/28/23
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Ramon Yarborough, retired publisher of The Fayetteville Observer and Fayetteville Publishing Co., died early Monday.
He was 90.
Mr. Yarborough died at his Fayetteville home.
“It …
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Bill Kirby Jr.
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8/21/23
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ASHEVILLE - Longtime Asheville Citizen Times reporter and editor — and local trailblazer of craft beer writing — has died.
Tony Kiss died just after midnight Aug. 17 in …
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8/17/23
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GREENSBORO — A judge in North Carolina’s 18th Judicial District Court has issued a protective order against a News & Record reporter that prevents her from using her reporting inside …
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8/14/23
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A recent newsroom workshop prompts me to offer up a refresher on how to stay out of copyright trouble. Imagine a member of your newspaper is working on a story about the end of summer and the …
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Amanda Martin
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7/31/23
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WINSTON-SALEM, NC – July 25, 2023 – The Association Executives of North Carolina (AENC) is proud to announce the election of Phil Lucey, the Executive Director of the North Carolina Press …
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7/27/23
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When a journalist calls for help on legal issues such as public meetings or access to public records, Amanda Martin answers the phone.
Martin, the counsel for the N.C. Press Association, …
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Ross Chandler
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7/20/23
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In his farewell column as publisher of The Charlotte Observer in December 1997, Rolfe Neill said that in 40-odd years, illness had kept him away from work for less than a week. He attributed his …
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BY DANNYE ROMINE POWELL AND MICHAEL GORDON
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7/18/23
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Ritchie Starnes, who spent five years as news editor of The Stanly News & Press, died Friday while vacationing in Folly Beach, South Carolina. He was 60.
Starnes wrote for The SNAP for five …
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7/11/23
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I remember going to the opthalmologist a few years ago for my regular eye checkup. In the exam room, there was a large poster on the wall which featured a number of photographs of the same view of …
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John Foust
Greensboro, NC
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7/11/23
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We frequently get calls to the hotline when law enforcement officials redact the names of witnesses, perpetrators, juveniles or victims in crime and incident reports. Journalists want to know – …
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Beth Soja (beth@smvt.com) & Karen Rabenau (karen@smvt.com)
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6/30/23
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Roger Mercer was a man of many passions: Gardening; writing; newspapers; music; friends; community; and his wife, Maureen. And then there were daylilies. Mercer, a longtime garden columnist for The …
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Bobby Parker | Editor
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6/29/23
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Rural newspapers are missing out on a great deal – subsidized, eager, young reporters who can boost coverage and build the paper’s brand as a public service.
The deal comes from …
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Al Cross
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6/8/23
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If you make public records requests in North Carolina, you are undoubtedly familiar with N.C. Gen. Stat. § 132-6(a), which requires a public body to furnish responsive records “as promptly …
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Beth Soja
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5/30/23
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Members of the N.C. Press Association from around the state converged upon Goldsboro late Friday morning to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the group's formation.
The relevance extends …
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Phyllis Moore
Goldsboro News Argus
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5/13/23
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SILER CITY — Chatham Media Group, the Chatham News + Record's owner, has sold the newspaper and its other print and digital news products to North State Media.
“We are …
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CN+R STAFF REPORTS
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5/9/23
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If you’re a journalist who has ever sought police body camera or dashboard camera recordings, you probably used the forms provided by the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts …
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Beth Soja & Mike Tadych
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4/26/23
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Like his predecessors in the General Assembly, Onslow County Sen. Michael Lazzara makes the same misguided arguments in his SB 200 that government should take over notifying the public of important …
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Bill Moss, Editor
Hendersonville Lightning
NCPA President
Lockwood Phillips, Owner, Editor, Publisher
Carteret Publishing Co.
Carteret County News-Times
Tideland News
Phil Lucey, Executive Director
NC Press Association
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4/18/23
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