Hi Readers! I’m Jesse, a senior at Albemarle High School, and I’m exited to intern as part of the Charlottesville Tomorrow team. Working for a local news outlet is unique because it allows me to see Charlottesville, a town I have spent most of my life in, from a new perspective. I am interested in […]
Charlottesville Tomorrow reached a major milestone today as the “odometer” on our website rolled past 1 million page views! It took us about 5.5 years to get half way there, and then with your help, we have quickly racked up another half a million views in the past 15 months. THANK YOU for reading Charlottesville […]
“Blacksburg Tomorrow”? We all know the media landscape is changing. More people are reading their news online and looking for multiple sources of news, including social media. Yet, in many communities local newsrooms are shrinking and the information our democracy and a thriving local community depends upon is getting even harder to find. Last winter, […]
Charlottesville Tomorrow has been named as one of 3 finalists for the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council’s 2011 “Community Award.” The Community Award recognizes “an enterprise or individual who exemplifies the greatest commitment to and impact upon improving the quality of life in Central Virginia through community involvement.” Nominees for 2011 Community Award: CBIC recently named […]
Virginia is for (news) lovers: How a Charlottesville newspaper and non-profit make their relationship work By Justin Ellis, Nieman Journalism Lab, March 14, 2011 A year and a half ago , neither The Daily Progress nor Charlottesville Tomorrow were quite sure their marriage would work. One’s a daily newspaper, the other a nonprofit focused on […]
UPDATE: As of September 2016, Charlottesville Tomorrow has published over 2,000 articles in The Daily Progress (during 2009-2016) as part of this unique media partnership. Editor & Publisher magazine , one of the newspaper industry’s most respected journals, has honored The Daily Progress in its “10 That Do It Right” national awards program. The program […]
I had the pleasure of attending the Block by Block Community News Summit 2010 this past week in Chicago. I met a lot of very smart and dedicated people all very passionate about the critical importance of engaging communities in local news. Many of the participants represent what are collectively known in the “new media” […]
The Miller Center of Public Affairs recently published the results of a year-long study of the state of media and democratic governance . The project was initiated by former Governor Gerald Baliles after he gave a speech at the 2009 Virginia Press Association upon his acceptance of the 2009 VPA Virginian of the Year Award. […]
In a story today , the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University shares an early assessment of the Charlottesville Tomorrow – Daily Progress partnership which began in August 2009 . In my interview with Mac Slocum, he confirmed what I have heard from other experts around the country, that this partnership is unique. Unique in […]
The Daily Progress and Charlottesville Tomorrow have formed a partnership to share news content. Under the agreement, news articles written by Charlottesville Tomorrow staff members will appear in the print edition of The Daily Progress. Charlottesville Tomorrow is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that produces news coverage of land-use, growth and transportation issues in Albemarle County […]
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