Why Charlotte Needs Better News Coverage
Charlotte makes decisions like a big city and gets covered like a small town. "Agenda" is Latin for things to be done. Nothing in it about telling anybody.
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Why the Next Great Media Company Will Be in a Tier-2 City
"Tier 2" is what you call a metro of nearly 3 million people when you're calling from New York. It's also where the next great media company is going to be built.
Peter Cellino: What Law Taught Me About Publishing
A resolution typically opens with a stack of "whereas" clauses. The part that does something comes after "be it resolved." Law taught me to skip to it, and that habit built a newsroom.
Charlotte Mercury's First Six Months: Back to the Sources
The Renaissance humanists had a cure for institutions that lose the plot: go back to the sources. Local news could use the treatment. A year-end ledger from The Charlotte Mercury's first six months.