Community spaces and malls experience sweeping changes due to the pandemic.
A single mom works from home while managing two children under the age of four.
An African American ballet dancer is elated over tights and shoes that match her skin color.
T
hese are just some of the stories that the newly formed Queens University
News Service has provided to Charlotte media outlets.
Launched in February, the service
supplies news content produced entirely by Queens students to multiple news organizations in Te Queen City, as it helps media outlets report local stories they would cover if they had additional resources. Well before the pandemic, local news organizations experienced drops in revenue, circulation and newsroom employment. Newspapers, in particular, struggled to grow a digital audience. Participants
in the Queens University
News Service hope to help fill these holes. Te news service offers a weekly news
advisory with an early goal to produce five pieces monthly—80 percent text, 20 percent video, and it helps power
the campus online newspaper, student
broadcasting and podcasting, and courses on content
generation. During its first
four months of operation, the news service published 24 stories in local media. But perhaps the most exciting aspect about the news service is how it offers students a realistic learning environment where they can interact with top editors to discuss gaps in staff coverage that the service can fill. Several members of the Charlotte
Journalism Collaborative have agreed to participate and have already begun to publish content by Queens students. According to Bob Page MBA ’15, director of digital projects and advisor to student media in the Knight School of Communication, members of the collaborative are eager to publish more work and have agreed to collaborate on a student-based news service for Charlotte.
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