User:ParkLibraryJOMC

I'm a new editor, interested in North Carolina newspapers. We are the Park Library of School of Media & Journalism at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

One of our interests is improving the coverage of local newspapers in Wikipedia. One of the best ways for readers to sort out whether a newspaper is real or fake is to check Wikipedia to see if it has an article (and what that article says). Another of my interests is using news literacy to combat false news, and enhancing the Wikipedia pages of local newspapers seems to be a good way of increasing the credibility of local news sources.

Yet only 38% of local papers have a Wikipedia page. The problem is particularly bad with weekly papers in small towns, even though many of these papers have publication histories going back to the 1800s. I am participating in a project initiated by Michaelacaulfield in this area to improve the quality and reliability of local North Carolina news sources.