Welcome + North Carolina: The state of collaboration
Channel: Center for Cooperative Media
Date: 2020-05-18

Originally broadcast via Zoom on Thursday, May 14, 2020 during the 2020 Collaborative Journalism Summit.

Panel description: There’s a reason why the 2020 Collaborative Journalism Summit was originally planned to be hosted in North Carolina — media makers in the state are leading the nation when it comes to collaboration. We’ll hear from several news leaders representing a wide variety of collaboratives and projects across the state for an intimate conversation about what they’re doing, what’s working, what’s not working, and what they’ve learned.

Host:
— Stefanie Murray, director of the Center for Cooperative Media

Sponsor welcome from the North Carolina Local News Lab Fund (begins at 09:36)
— Lizzy Hazeltine, fund coordinator of the NC Local News Lab Fund
— Melanie Sill, senior journalism consultant of the NC Local News Lab Fund (Democracy Fund)
— Rochelle Ford, dean of the Elon University School of Communications

Panel discussion (begins at 19:35)
Host: Charles Thomas, program director at the Knight Foundation
Speakers:
— Richard Thames, visiting journalism professor and Knight-Crane executive in residence, Queens University’s James L. Knight School of Communication
— David Boraks, reporter and host at WFAE
— Glenn Burkins, publisher of Q City Metro
— Angie Newsome, executive director and founder of Carolina Public Press
— Susan Leath, director of UNC’s Center for Innovation & Sustainability
— Robyn Tomlin, southeast regional editor and executive editor of McClatchy’s News & Observer
— Alicia Bell, News Voices organizing manager for Free Press
— Cierra Hinton, executive director and publisher of Scalawag
— Nathan Morabito, investigative reporter at WCNC

Download Susan's slides: https://collaborativejournalism.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2020/05/NCCollab_UNCInnovation-Leath.pdf
Download Alicia's slides: https://collaborativejournalism.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2020/05/NCCollab_FreePress-Bell.pdf

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