Wikipedia:Meetup/North Carolina Newspapers

The Park Library at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media and the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host Newspapers in North Carolina Edit-a-thon. The edit-a-thon is open to the public. We will improve current and historic N.C. newspaper entries in Wikipedia, focusing on smaller circulation papers and African American papers. All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject needed. Library resources will be on hand along with a list of suggested topics.

Resources for Individual Newspapers

 * NC Press Association Directory for editor, publisher
 * Editor & Publisher Newspaper DataBook for circulation, foundation date. In print @ Park Library
 * DigitalNC Newspapers - newspapers dating from the earliest issue in NC through 2019
 * Newspapers.com - newspapers dating from the earliest issues through 1923, with some later though those are exceptions
 * Chronicling America, North Carolina List of newspapers with start dates and end dates.
 * "Index of N.C. Newspapers by County" from the N.C. State Library, through archive.org.
 * search [library.unc.edu] for the newspaper name to find information about the paper.
 * search Factiva for the newspaper name. (UNC only)
 * Journalism trade publications, search for publication name = "business north carolina" or editor publisher or nieman reports or "journalism review" AND NewspaperName


 * Jock Lauterer's blog, Blue Highways Journal covers many N.C. community newspapers.
 * News Deserts -- North Carolina by UNC's Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media.

Online Research Sources - North Carolina Specific

 * NCpedia Covers everything about N.C. including some newspaper info + biographies about editors.
 * LEARN NC (Especially the North Carolina History Digital Textbook)
 * The North Carolina Historical Review has many articles about more obscure North Carolina history
 * Documenting the American South
 * N.C. Highway Historical Marker Program essays
 * Digital Collections of the State Archives and State Library of North Carolina

Online Research Sources - Newspaper History

 * African-American newspapers and periodicals: a national bibliography (1998)
 * Address on this History of Journalism in NC (1881) - access only @ UNC
 * The Afro-American Press, and its Editors (1891)
 * Union list of North Carolina newspapers, 1751-1900 (1963)
 * North Carolina Newspaper Project Union List (2005)

Print Research Sources - Newspaper History

 * Louis Austin and the Carolina Times: A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle. Jerry Gershenhorn. 		Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Online for UNC members.
 * A Historical and Analytical View of Black Newspapers in North Carolina. by Bernadine Moses. MA thesis of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 1976.
 * Covers the Carolina Times, Winston-Salem Chronicle, Carolinian, and the Carolina Peacemaker.
 * Contemporary Black Newspapers in North Carolina. by Sherri Denise Belfield. Honors essay of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 1989.
 * Covers the Carolina Times, Winston-Salem Chronicle, Carolinian, the Charlotte Post, and the Carolina Peacemaker.
 * The Black Press in the South, 1865-1979. edited by Henry Lewis Suggs. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1983.
 * See Chapter 8, "North Carolina" written by Suggs and Bernadine Moses Duncan.

Awards for Current Papers
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CogSciLibrarian/Subpage_2

Details
WHEN: Thursday, October 24 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Come when you can, stay as long as you would like. WHERE: UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, Park Library, second floor of Carroll Hall, on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. WHO: Anyone! Dashboard NC News Dashboard - Sign in please!
 * Experienced or new Wikipedians (We will provide assistance with Wikipedia formatting and syntax.).
 * Amateur historians or research pros (We will have a selection of resources and a mini reference desk available for your use. We can also pull additional materials from the UNC Libraries collections as needed.).
 * UNC faculty, staff, and students.

WHAT TO BRING: WHAT TO KNOW BEFORE YOU ARRIVE: WILL THERE BE FOOD?
 * A laptop. We'll help you access the University's wireless network.
 * Create an account ahead of time here: Create a Wikipedia Editor Account. (Pseudonyms are encouraged, as is an email for password recovery.) Volunteers will also be available onsite to help you create an account.
 * Enter Carroll Hall through the side entrance near Phillips Hall Annex. Volunteers will be there to greet you.
 * Parking is $1 for the evening. See Weeknight Parking Payment Options at UNC's Transportation and Parking
 * See Detailed directions to Carroll Hall and directions to the Park Library.
 * Yes, we will provide pizza and soda.

Suggested Topics
The following are articles that UNC Libraries staff have identified as needing attention, but participants are encouraged to pursue their own interests as well.

Start with Stubs (an article deemed too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject.)
 * N.C. newspaper stubs Papers that don't have much info.
 * Introduction along the lines of this:
 * The Amherst Bee is an American newspaper established in 1879 which serves the Buffalo and Williamsville area of New York, and is part of the Bee Group Newspapers.[1] It is published weekly on Wednesdays. Its estimated circulation is 27,000.
 * Info Box Add an information box for newspapers using the code listed here
 * History (older editors, start date, sale of paper to different owners)
 * Notable Stories (link to stories that won awards or changed community)
 * Awards (Pulitzer Prizes, NCPress Assn awards,etc.)
 * Microfilm Available (for DTH, eg)
 * Archives Available (for North Carolina Digital Heritage Center (NCDHC) papers)

Other Papers to edit
 * The Anson Record - add citations & image to infobox
 * Butner-Creedmoor News - add citations & image to infobox.
 * The Wake Weekly
 * The Washington Daily News
 * The Chronicle (Winston-Salem)
 * WNAA (NC A&T radio)
 * (Whiteville) News Reporter
 * The Carolina Times  (update with info. from the new book)
 * Daily Courier
 * Laurinburg Exchange
 * Tabor-Loris Tribune

African American Papers
 * List of AA papers on NCDHC

Papers that have a large number of digitized issues available
 * Alamance Gleaner ... Wikipedia entry
 * Carolina Watchman no Wikipedia entry.
 * Cherokee Scout ... Wikipedia entry
 * Franklin Times ... no Wikipedia entry.
 * Kings Mountain Herald ... Wikipedia entry
 * The News Record (Marshall NC)... no Wikipedia entry.
 * Perquimans Weekly... no Wikipedia entry
 * Williamston Enterprise... merged with Robersonville Weekly Herald to make Martin County Enterprise & Weekly Herald
 * Wilmington Daily Review... no Wikipedia entry

RSVP
Please add your name below if you are planning to attend. When you arrive to the edit-a-thon please sign-in with your username by adding four tildes (~) in place of your name.
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