At the VOICE: Why we do what we do
The electric blue lights from multiple police cars flashed ominously down South Fayetteville Street, sending a clear message: someone was in a heap of trouble. As I drove past, my worst fears were confirmed. Five cop cars surrounded a single … Read more
In which Mr. Joke goes to Lithuania
Newspapers are thriving. Maybe the professional mourners need to get outside the beltway more often. I surely saw community newspapers “growing like Topsy” — especially in China on my teaching/research junket earlier this summer. And newspapers are still the dominant … Read more
Connecting the dots from Guangdong, China, to Southern Pines, N.C., U.S. of A
The Community Journalism Summer Roadshow, now in its 14th summer, returns today to The Pilot of Southern Pines for my fourth U.S. Open golf championship. I’ve spent three U.S. Opens out in the field, toting cameras and shooting the … Read more
In which Editor Li gets it right
Jock Lauterer, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Carolina Community Media Project at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has returned to China for a third summer to teach … Read more
A China portfolio
Jock Lauterer, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Carolina Community Media Project at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has returned to China for a third summer to teach Community … Read more
In which Mr. Joke’s new book is birthed
Jock Lauterer, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Carolina Community Media Project at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has returned to China for a third summer to teach Community … Read more
A stranger in a strange land
Jock Lauterer, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Carolina Community Media Project at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has returned to China for a third summer to teach Community … Read more
Perhaps we are “only fools”…
Jock Lauterer, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Carolina Community Media Project at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has returned to China for a third summer to teach … Read more
An old-fashioned newspaper war in Chongqing
Chongqing, with its five competing big metro daily newspapers, reminds me of New York City in the 1920s. Five big papers duking it out for every reader, for every advertiser. It’s an old-fashioned newspaper war. You’d think a city of … Read more
Boots on the ground at the Nan-an News
Jock Lauterer, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Carolina Community Media Project at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has returned to China for a third summer to teach Community … Read more