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Mission statement
The nonprofit Raleigh Public Record reports and documents the news of Raleigh, North Carolina. Through its website the Record fairly and responsibly covers the issues affecting all Raleigh communities, using traditional pen-and-pad reporting as well as audio and visual storytelling. While reporting stories traditional media no longer cover, the Record also tests new ways to convey news and helps train a new generation of journalists.
Staff
Charles C. Duncan Pardo, Editor
Jennifer Wig, Assistant Editor
Sonny Ferares, Intern
Contributors
Joe Boisvert
Chrystal Bartlett
Chris Cioffi
Tyler Dukes
David Eichenberger (Is this Really Necessary Comics)
Rose Hoban
Will Huntsberry
Ariella Monti (City hall)
Drew St. Claire
Fraser Sherman
Karen Tam (Photography)
Past contributors
Christie Starnes, Andrew Johnson, Katie Knight, Art Latham, Andrew Mayo, Julia Merchant, Kate Pattison – The Historical Record, John Dancy-Jones, Darcy Dearth, Bryan LeClaire
Board of Directors
 Chris HeagartyChris Heagarty is an attorney in Raleigh. He founded the North Carolina Center for Voter Education and served as its Executive Director from 2000 to 2007. He was appointed to serve as a State House Representative in 2009. He has spent many years working on civic education and campaign reform, and presents on campaign finance reform, judicial selection and ethics in government. He received his bachelor’s from N.C. State University in 1992 and his juris doctorate from N.C. Central University in 2010. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Heagarty has lived in Raleigh since 1978. |
 Neil HébertNeil Hebert is a reference librarian at Wake Technical Community College. He was a newspaper reporter during 1998-99 for the Nashville Graphic and the North Carolina State University Technician. He has a master’s degree in library science and has worked in public and academic libraries for 12 years. |
 Ariella MontiAs the Record’s staff representative, Ariella Monti can often be found at city hall attending council, committee and commission meetings. She has been a contributor for the Record since November 2010 and took on the city hall beat in April. When she isn’t covering city hall, she is a tutor at Huntington Learning Center, working with students ages 6 to 18.Prior to making a mad dash from Long Island to Raleigh in June 2010, she spent two years at Herald Community Newspapers as a reporter for the Rockville Centre and Long Beach Heralds. She continues to cover Long Beach from afar for Long Beach Patch. She received her B.A. in Media Studies from Manhattanville College in 2005 and her M.S. in Publishing from Pace University in 2006. |
 Fiona MorganFiona Morgan spent more than six years as a staff reporter for the Independent Weekly newspaper, where she wrote about media, technology, state and local politics and a host of other issues that affect the Triangle. After earning a Master of Public Policy degree from Duke in 2011, she joined Duke’s DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy as a research associate. As a research fellow in 2010 with the Media Policy Initiative of the New America Foundation, a think tank in Washington, D.C., she wrote a comprehensive report on the media ecology and information needs of the Triangle area of North Carolina. She has lived in Durham since 2001. |
 Jennifer NovelliJennifer Novelli is senior editor and copywriter at Mediplay, Inc. She has contributed two articles to the Record, and currently contributes to The Triangle Dog magazine. She graduated from N.C. State in 2005 with degrees in Communication and Spanish. She also maintains her own blog called the Downtown Dame. She grew up in Statesville, NC and has lived in Raleigh for 10 years. |
 Kate PattisonKate Pattison spent eight years working as an archaeologist in Vermont, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and the Bahamas, and currently works for Wake Technical Community College’s Grants Development division in Raleigh, NC. She wrote a weekly historical column about Raleigh, North Carolina, for the Raleigh Public Record in 2009. Pattison occasionally writes blog posts, newsletter features and news summaries for the non-profit environmental group Toxic Free North Carolina. In the spring of 2011, she received a certificate in Agricultural Sustainability from Central Carolina Community College in Pittsboro, North Carolina. |
 Yolanda D. McGill – General CounselYolanda grew up in Raleigh, but ran off to New York University to pursue a journalism degree. Ultimately, she earned her B.A. in German instead. She received her J.D. in 1999 as a Clarence Darrow Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School and began practicing as an associate with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in Washington, DC. McGill then left DC for Berlin, Germany, upon her selection as a Bosch Fellow, where she advised Deutsche Bank and consultants on U.S. law. In 2003 she was back in Raleigh combating predatory lending practices as a policy counsel, then senior policy counsel with the Center for Responsible Lending. Yolanda returned to Berlin in 2007 to work with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, but was drawn back to Raleigh recently and is now living between Raleigh and Washington DC where she is senior counsel for the Fair Housing and Fair Lending Project of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. |
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Freelance reporters
The Record is looking for freelance reporters to cover local government, the environment, business and any other stories that go unreported or under-reported in Raleigh. Contact editor(at)raleighpublicrecord.org for more information.
Internships
The Raleigh Public Record is accepting applications for paid news internships in Raleigh. Interns will report stories, develop features and have the opportunity to do a series or longer-form magazine article. To apply, please send a cover letter, resume and clips to editor(at)raleighpublicrecord.org. Two interns per year will receive $500 stipends.
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