The News & Observer began a five-part investigative series, Jailed to Death, that exposes dozens of deaths in which North Carolina jails failed state supervision requirements for the safety and …
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Dan Kane
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8/8/17
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The New York Daily News was in for an unpleasant surprise when moments after a regular morning staff meeting, tronc, sent an email announcing the editorial staff would be cut by 50 percent and …
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Pete Vernon
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7/23/18
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The Daily Dispatch is uniting the community by focusing on its youngest members in a new series called Student Spotlight.
The project began in August 2017 with the goal to recognize …
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Kristen Hare
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2/12/19
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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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Nashville police Chief John Winstead and Nashville Human Resources Director Matt Joyner late last month were suspended indefinitely with pay, Town Manager Randy Lansing said Friday afternoon.
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William F. West Staff Writer
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10/10/23
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The Dallas Morning News will outsource the design and layout of its print edition to GateHouse Media and cut around 20 jobs from its 50-person print team. Five other positions in the newsroom have …
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2/1/17
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Dealing with non-employees and non-employee content
We all know that there is a fair amount of red tape that comes with having employees. You have to supervise and mentor them. They want to …
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8/8/17
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Sunshine Day 2019 will mark the fifth annual awards program from the Sunshine Center recognizing individuals from across North Carolina whose work exemplifies the value we place on keeping citizens …
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2/11/19
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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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Some years ago, I attended an exhibit of treasure from the Atocha shipwreck which treasure hunter Mel Fisher had located off the coast of Florida. The Atocha was the most famous ship in the Spanish …
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John Foust
Greensboro, NC
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10/10/23
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Newsrooms still seem divided into two teams: A small group that cares about analytics and how they can inform coverage, and everyone else.I particularly like the suggestions of stories newsroom folks …
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Jean Hodges
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2/1/17
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For the first time in the Guardian’s history, the publication is making more money from its digital operations than from its print newspapers. Part of the reason the digital side is making more …
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Jim Waterson
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7/24/18
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More than ever, journalists are faced with ethical dilemmas. They have to decide between exposing the truth in the face of graphic information. They are also responsible for combatting …
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Neil Brown
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2/8/19
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The new publisher of the News-Topic is a North Carolina native who has spent over 33 years in the newspaper business.
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1/4/21
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell said Tuesday state lawmakers should undo a provision in the state budget that exempts them from the public records law to provide the same transparency and accountability …
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DAN KANE
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10/11/23
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“Personal Email” as Public Records
Gmail. Yahoo! AOL. Do these sound like official email accounts for the conduct of public business? They can be.
The NC Public Records Law …
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Amanda Martin
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8/15/17
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Data journalism might be the answer to sustainable journalism business models. A new project called Reporters and Data and Robots is taking data journalism and automation to a new level. RADAR is …
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Nicholas Diakopoulos
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1/31/19
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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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Most print-based media — newspapers and magazines — have been struggling for at least a decade to pick up the pace of digital transformation. Just as momentum was building, two years of …
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Rick Edmonds | Poynter
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3/11/22
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National Newspaper Week is Oct. 1-7
This year we mark the 77th anniversary of National Newspaper Week (NNW), Oct. 1-7 . The annual observance celebrates and emphasizes the impact of …
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NCPA
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8/15/17
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