When is a community not a community?
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 meets Mr. Zhao
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
Toto, I have a feeling…
UNC-CH Senior Lecturer Jock Lauterer is spending his third summer in China teaching Community Journalism. His textbook book, “Community Journalism: Relentlessly Local,” will be released next week in Shenzhen, revised and translated into Chinese. It’s a typical balmy late spring … Read more
Mr. Joke meets Mr. Ho Ti
The Continuing education of Mr. Joke Being the third installment of one man’s adventure in the Middle Kingdom Chongqing reminds me of Durham, real and gritty, but minus the diversity. No, wait. Here, I am the diversity — … Read more
On the street with Beijing’s Desheng Today
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
The Continuing Education of Mr. Joke
Being the third installment of one man’s adventure in the Middle Kingdom Dear Steve, My dearest pal and cherished colleague, was it not just yesterday back in ’67 when we toiled happily together at the Daily Tar Heel — a … Read more
“You’re a real jerk … but don’t tell anyone I said so!” — Community Journalism’s decline in civility in the age of Internet anonymity
David Klinger (UNC JOMC, 1976) was a resident of Berkeley County for 14 years and a Journal “community columnist” for two. He now lives in Idaho, recovering from his West Virginia experience, but still regularly reading the paper. Author’s addendum: … Read more
Roadshow to Burnsville: Little paper, big courage
Summer Roadshow 2012 Burnsville, July 9 Each summer for the last 12 years, the Johnny Appleseed Community Journalism Summer Roadshow has brought “Journalism 101” to 175 small newspaper newsrooms across the state from Murphy to Manteo (from the Cherokee … Read more
COMMUNITY JOURNALISM ROADSHOW TURNS 10
by Jock Lauterer Director The Carolina Community Media Project Summer, 2010 When I came back to Carolina in January 2001 and launched the Carolina Community Media Project, the primary goal was to make free, on-site journalism workshops available to all … Read more
Remembering Ron Paris: the Little Giant of Community Journalism
By Jock Lauterer In the recurrent dream I’ve had for years, I enter a small-town newspaper office that is strange and yet vaguely familiar. As I search for my desk, Ron Paris materializes before me, greeting me with his characteristically … Read more