It’s Friday, April 5. Support the INDY Press Club. Good morning, readers. Durham city council meetings have seen an uptick in attendance lately due to galvanizing issues such as Shotspotter, the city budget, and the Gaza ceasefire resolution. Some residents show up to add their voice to the conversation by giving comments at the public […]
It’s Thursday, April 4. Support the INDY Press Club. Good morning, readers. Like the internet before it, artificial intelligence, or AI, is upending the national media landscape and holds both opportunities and pitfalls for journalists practicing their craft. And at universities across the country, including at UNC, professors are grappling with how to teach journalism […]
It’s Wednesday, April 3. Support the INDY Press Club. Good morning, readers. Congresswoman Valerie Foushee traveled to Israel last week to meet with top foreign officials but did not publicize the trip, which lobbying group AIPAC organized, until Monday, several hours after the INDY reported on it. “I recently returned from a congressional trip to […]
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It’s Tuesday, April 2. Support the INDY Press Club. Good morning, readers. Each month, Chapel Hill’s town staff spends an estimated $10,000 worth of time preparing materials for the town’s 20 or so volunteer boards and commissions. “I’m sorry, did you say $10,000?” interrupted town council member Paris Miller-Foushee when a town staffer first mentioned […]
It’s Monday, April 1. Support the INDY Press Club. Good morning, readers. On an average night, the Durham Rescue Mission houses more than 450 people between its campuses and off-site housing. Last year, it reported serving half a million meals and providing 167,000 nights of shelter. The Mission, one of Durham’s largest providers of homeless […]
It’s Friday, March 29. Support the INDY Press Club. Welcome to the weekend, readers. As of this morning, four of the six Triangle-based basketball teams in the NCAA tournament are still fighting for a championship, and in somewhat of a plot twist, none of them are UNC. The men’s team sustained a crushing two-point loss […]
It’s Thursday, March 28. Support the INDY Press Club. Good morning, readers. In December, the INDY and our partner newsroom The Assembly joined on to a lawsuit that a Raleigh family is bringing against the city of Raleigh to release officer-worn body-camera footage of a botched raid of their home. In April 2021, an RPD […]
It’s Wednesday, March 27. Support the INDY Press Club. Good morning, readers. Last fall, we published a story from Duke student journalist Charlotte Kramon and our partners at The Assembly about a UNC student’s overdose death on Duke’s campus. Following trials in federal court, two Durham residents were found guilty of drug trafficking and sentenced […]
It’s Tuesday, March 26. Support the INDY Press Club. Good morning, readers. Since last fall, we’ve been tracking two major stories of workers and wages in the Bull City. Today, we have updates on both. In September, Durham city waste workers walked off the job in protest of low wages. And while their efforts were […]
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