Update: On January 17th, The Local Reporter appears to have deleted the article from their homepage, with no editorial note or indication that they published it in the first place. You can see the original article here. It’s also still available at the original URL. On January 15th, The Local Reporter published an in-depth piece […]
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The Local Reporter’s new board chair is also the president of Friends of Bolin Creek
On November 21, we found multiple instances of The Local Reporter plagiarizing content from other area local publications, including The Daily Tar Heel. We wanted to provide some updates on what’s happened over the past 10 days. The Local Reporter deleted eight stories from their website from author Nina Sumner as well as her author […]
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The Local Reporter has published plagiarized content from area publications
Update: 11/22: An update is at the bottom of this piece. Back in late August, the non-profit newspaper The Local Reporter said that they would soon be announcing a new board. Three months later, no new board has been revealed, but the paper – which has close ties to a local organization with a PAC […]
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Is this the end for The Local Reporter?
Updated: 11/20 The timeline at the bottom of this post has been updated. Last Thursday, The Local Reporter – the local non-profit newspaper with close ties to a political PAC – posted that they would “transition to an energetic new group of Board of Directors” and “provide a new, fresh format for the future” on […]
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The Local Reporter is fundraising against a ‘connection’ with UNC’s journalism school. There’s no connection.
Twice in the past two months, The Local Reporter has fundraised against an “arrangement” or “connection” with the UNC Hussman School of Journalism. The only problem? There’s no arrangement or relationship. In the first incident – which took place on March 19 – The Local Reporter wrote in their newsletter that donations “from our last […]
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The Local Reporter: A very unusual local non-profit newsroom
The Local Reporter has once again removed a piece from its website without explanation. Here’s what happened: Yesterday afternoon, they published a piece by Adam Powell, the public information officer for the North Carolina Cyber Academy, about President Biden’s recommendation to include $138.3 million in the federal budget for Chapel Hill’s planned North-South Bus Rapid […]