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Betsy O'Donovan

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Betsy O’Donovan, a 2013 Nieman Fellow, is the executive director and general manager of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Daily Tar Heel.

A Winning Turnaround: Betsy O’Donovan, NF ’13, is leading the charge to reverse the deficit at a college newspaper

A Winning Turnaround: Betsy O’Donovan, NF ’13, is leading the charge to reverse the deficit at a college newspaper

I became executive director at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Daily Tar Heel in August 2016, at a make-or-break moment for our nonprofit newspaper. We’d lost $272,000 in the…
May 18, 2017
Public Radio and the Sound of America

Public Radio and the Sound of America

When “Tell Me More,” NPR’s talk show about diversity, was canceled in 2014, NPR’s then-ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos observed that Latinos (16 percent of the U.S. population) hold only 5 percent…
June 11, 2015

The (New) Industry Standard: Making Citizen Broadcasters into Citizen Journalists

When everyone is a publisher, everyone should be a journalist, too
June 13, 2013