The town of Stanley has adopted a public records policy that charges a special service fee for access to public records that take time to produce. The new policy, which was approved at a City Council …
Lately I’ve been thinking about the well known television campaign for Wrangler jeans. This was the one with the tagline that was spoken as it appeared on the screen: “Real. Comfortable. …
National Newspaper Association today delivered letters from more than 200 newspaper titles to the Postal Regulatory Commission, complaining about inadequate mail delivery and escalating postage …
The Center for Integrity in News Reporting held its first awards dinner honoring impartial reporting at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Rose Hoban and her team at NC Health News won …
A native of North Carolina, Ashley Fox joined Stevens Martin Vaughn & Tadych PLLC as an associate attorney in June 2024. Immediately prior to joining SMVT, Ashley was a legal fellow at the …
The North Carolina Local News Lab Fund will open a new round of grant applications on July 8 to provide news and community organizations with flexible funding to respond to their communities’ needs.
June 26, 2024 — The North Carolina Local News Lab Fund will open a new round of grant applications on July 8 to …
Sougata Mukherjee was named market president and publisher of Triangle Business Journal on Monday, effective immediately.
He succeeds Jason Christie, who recently was promoted …
Since hosting the U.S. Open for the first time 25 years ago, Pinehurst No. 2 has changed a bit. A restoration of the golf course was completed in 2010. Bermudagrass has been installed. There’s …
In a series of transactions effective June 1, CMG acquired BNI’s interests in the following affiliates:
Bainbridge (Ga.) Media, publisher of The Post-Searchlight
Brookhaven (Miss.) …
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 …
The Mitchell News-Journal welcomed new editor Mariel Williams to its staff last week. Williams is an experienced journalist with a diverse background. Growing up in Yancey County, …
Post co-publisher and general manager Robert Johnson, who with his brother Gerald positioned the publication’s role as a community resource beyond journalism, died today at age 84.
Mr. …
Journalist Edward Martin died May 29 after more than six decades of writing award-winning stories that explored the work and lives of North Carolinians in vivid detail. He was 80.
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MORGANTON, NC May 6, 2024 – Sixty-six weeks into the venture, The Paper, Burke County’s (N.C.) only all-local, local-owned, home-delivered print and digital newspaper, transitioned from a …
This day has been coming for some time, but I kept putting it off.
I’d wake up and convince myself I still have the drive of that first summer I showed up at 6 a.m. at the …
On assignments, News & Observer photographer Chuck Liddy would refer to a writer colleague as “my reporter,” causing the scribbler’s eye to twitch.
The way Liddy saw the …
Linda Topp, who brings a decade of experience in nonprofit leadership, has been named Asheville Watchdog’s executive director.
Topp has volunteered as The …
Responding to subscription and editorial growth and emerging staff increases, Angela Kuper Copeland has been promoted to managing editor of The Paper, a new position, effective Feb. 1.
Copeland …
Joe Goodman, one of the last of his kind, died peacefully Sunday morning in the house his grandfather built along the banks of Muddy Creek outside Clemmons. He would have been 87 in a couple of …
Frank Taylor returned to Carolina Public Press this week to oversee its news operations as editor in chief.
Taylor, who previously was CPP managing editor from 2015 to 2022, served …
MORGANTON, NC (May 6, 2024) – Barbara Wetsig-Lynam, a leader in designing and executing philanthropic partnerships globally, has been named Executive Director of the newly formed Western North …
My wife and I have family friends who told us about their boating experiences in northern Virginia. They had a pontoon boat which was docked at a local lake. During the cold months, they used a …
When I recently heard about a major news event in an area where I have friends, I instinctively called up the website of the local newspaper. What I found was unfortunately all too common – …
We’ve all heard challenges described as puzzles. With that in mind, let’s take a look at a real puzzle and see how it relates to the particular challenges of creating advertising. Jigsaw …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—March 25, 2024
Three years of planning and effort by the National Newspaper Association and its partners resulted this weekend in an emphatic recognition by …
Sunshine Week is a nonpartisan collaboration among groups in the journalism, civic, education, government and private sectors that shines a light on the importance of public records and open …
Jim, who used to work with a local volunteer fire department, told me about the technique they used to keep everyone on the right roads to arrive at fire sites. “It was in the days before …
It’s become conventional wisdom that the advertising-based business model of newspapers has failed. But that is not true in many small communities, which could become the nuclei of a national …
Anthony is a veteran ad salesperson with a common sense philosophy. “You’ve got to have a parachute,” he told me. “When you’re in the middle of a presentation, and you …
The International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors (ISWNE) is accepting entries for its annual Golden Quill editorial writing contest. Deadline is Feb. 1, 2024. Entries should reflect the purpose …
Ashley Fox joins Stevens Martin Vaughn & Tadych; NCPA legal hotline