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Newspaper people often say that once a person gets the ink in their blood, it is hard to get it out.
That statement has never been more true than with the story of Bill Turner, who died Saturday …
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11/30/21
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The North Carolina General Assembly remains poised to make open government history next week when lawmakers return to Raleigh for the last time in 2021. It has been a while since our legislature has …
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Sandy Hurley & Bill Moss
North Carolina Press Association
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11/22/21
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Thomas P. Inman, a longtime editorial page editor for The Greenville News who was known for holding government officials accountable, has died.
Inman, who served as the editorial …
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11/9/21
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Lately I have noticed a disturbing trend in print and online advertising: the overuse of exclamation marks. They’re all over the place. Interestingly, no grammar book I have ever seen has …
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John Foust
Raleigh, NC
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10/21/21
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Embattled Myers Park High Principal Mark Bosco has a new job in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, following a nearly-three month investigation and suspension prompted by complaints from students that he …
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Observer ANNA MARIA DELLA COSTA
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10/15/21
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Link to Full story at Goldsboro News Argus
Shycole Simpson-Carter, Goldsboro’s former community relations director, said Friday the city is losing its top …
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TYLER STOCKS and ROCHELLE MOORE
tstocks@newsargus.com
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10/15/21
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Link to Full story
Goldsboro’s travel and tourism director has resigned, making her the sixth of the city’s 16 department heads to leave the city during the past 10 …
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TYLER STOCKS
tstocks@newsargus.com
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10/15/21
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The project is supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation .
AP is distributing AI readiness scorecards to leaders of local newsrooms in the form of short surveys …
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Lauren Easton AP
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10/15/21
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My friends Mark and Sandy invited me to spend a couple of days in a vacation beach condo they had rented, about a month before their first child was born. Mark and I decided to do some fishing, so we …
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John Foust
Raleigh, NC
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9/29/21
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Three Wilmington police officers were fired last year after video footage from one officer’s cruiser revealed they had made a slew of racist and hate-filled remarks. Employee …
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N&O Editorial Board
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9/28/21
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When the 2021 session of the General Assembly began, passage of legislation to advance public access to records of disciplinary actions taken by those employed by taxpayers in state and local …
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Sandy Hurley and Bill Moss
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9/27/21
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The U.S. Postal Service today announced it will not implement a postage increase in January 2022. The next increase will be in July 2022. Then it will begin a new regime of twice-yearly …
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NNA
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9/15/21
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LUMBERTON — The task of overseeing The Robesonian’s news-gathering operations has been given to a man with almost 30 years of experience in the newspaper industry.
David Kennard …
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9/13/21
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Bill Church, who started his newspaper career covering high school sports for an Oklahoma weekly and most recently helped oversee 150 newsrooms across the nation, will be the new executive editor of …
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9/13/21
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Let’s take a look at the sales cycle. For our purposes, the focus is on advertising media sales, but this concept can apply to any business. Although the cycle has a beginning and an end, the …
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John Foust
Raleigh, NC
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8/30/21
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Veteran journalist Rana Cash will return to Charlotte this fall as the new executive editor of The Charlotte Observer, bringing a promise to ask tough questions of leadership and to cover the …
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8/25/21
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O’Rourke Media Group, which operates community-focused media publications nationwide, and Modulist, a media services company that specializes in processing user-generated content, have entered …
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8/16/21
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If you’ve made a recent request under the NC Public Records Law, you may have noticed that some government agencies -- UNC-CH, Wake County, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, and the city …
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Beth Soja
beth@smvt.com
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8/9/21
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The parent company of the Wilkes Journal-Patriot is shuffling regional responsibilities among its North Carolina publishers following acquisitions made earlier this year.
Lori Spurling …
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JULE HUBBARD WILKES JOURNAL-PATRIOT
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8/4/21
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Columbus County’s newspaper of record turns a new page Aug. 1, 2021, as Justin Smith, editor since 2018, becomes publisher as well. Smith has purchased the 125-year-old company from Les High …
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7/30/21
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