Tune into WCHL-1360 today at 1 p.m. to hear a panel discussion on “Local Media Ecosystems: Objectivity, Bias, Access.” The seven panelists weighing in on the topic are: Chad Johnston, executive director of The People’s Channel; Catherine Lazorko, public information officer for the Town of Chapel Hill; Fiona Morgan, Media Policy Initiative and New America […]
All posts for the month April, 2011
Local media panel on WCHL
Posted by NancyDon on April 28, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/04/28/local-media-panel-on-wchl/
Gentrification
Reesenews, a multimedia news project by UNC journalism students, has put together a package of stories on gentrification of the Northside community. Check it out at http://reesenews.org/2011/04/14/the-struggle-for-a-neighborhood/13888/.
Posted by NancyDon on April 19, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/04/19/gentrification/
Opportunity
A perfect storm of work, family and personal commitments makes it difficult for me to blog until the end of the month. If anyone would like to submit a guest blog, the Chapel Hill Watch space will be available for the next couple of weeks. Send your post to me in an e-mail, neoates at […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on April 16, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/04/16/opportunity/
Leggo my logo
Chapel Hill taxpayers authorized town manager Roger Stancil to spend money on designing a logo that has a specific color and font for the town to use on street signs and elsewhere. Yet when local stores want to put their logos, in color, on a street sign, some council members waffled or flat out refused. […]
Posted by NancyDon on April 14, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/04/14/leggo-my-logo/
Bookstore is not a library
While I was shopping in Dillard’s one day last month, Mr. Dillard himself and a regional manager were roaming the store. As I paid for my purchase, the salesclerk commented how fortuitous it was that the entourage happened by in time to see a customer buying something. Truth be told, the store was not exactly […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on April 7, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/04/07/bookstore-is-not-a-library/
Preserve Northside
At the Town Council meeting on March 28, several Northside residents petitioned council for a moratorium on building permits. Although Northside was granted Neighborhood Conservation District status in 2005 to preserve the character of the historically black working-class neighborhood, developers have found ways to skirt the rules and continue building student rental housing under the […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on April 6, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/04/06/preserve-northside/
Greenbridge short on green
As Greenbridge toes into the starting block of becoming a business school case study, its owners facing bankruptcy, I’m hoping someone who understands financing or the law will explain what I’m missing. Greenbridge partners came together in 2006 and broke ground in October 2007 on the $54 million project that brought 97 condos on the […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on April 4, 2011
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/04/04/greenbridge-short-on-green/