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The Raleigh Public Record will provide non-profit community journalism for Raleigh, North Carolina. Through its website, RPR will deliver fair, trusted coverage of the issues affecting the neighborhoods in which we all live by using old-fashioned reporting and compelling writing, along with audio and visual mediums. RPR will also serve as a laboratory to test the technological limits of the new media paradigm and help train a new generation of journalists.
| RPR Editor Charles C. Duncan Pardo is a reporter and editor with the Courthouse News Service, but Raleigh Public Record has become his full-time volunteer job. Charles has worked as a reporter for the North Carolina Public Radio and did a brief stint as a producer for WUNC’s The State of Things. His work has appeared on National Public Radio, in the Independent Weekly and other outlets.Charles firmly believes in doing what you love and care about, even if that means being underemployed. He embarked on this adventure to create a nonprofit source for Raleigh news in September 2008.
Charles is a graduate of Wake Technical Community College and N.C. State’s English Department and also holds a certificate from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. |
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| Development Director Christie Leigh Starnes was born and raised in rural NC. She left the mountainous West to seek her fortune in the Piedmont. Christie holds a master’s in library science and works as a manager at Wake County’s downtown library. Christie helps the Raleigh Public Record figure out how to make this new model sustainable with fundraisers and ad sales. She’s also been known to take the occasional photograph. |
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News contributors
Chrystal Bartlett
Darcie Dearth
Andrew Johnson
Katie Knight
Andrew Mayo
Julia Merchant
Columnists
Kate Pattison – The Historical Record
David Eichenberger – Is This Really Necessary Comics
John Dancy-Jones – The Natural View |
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Scott Huler
The work of Raleigh writer Scott Huler has appeared in such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the International Herald Tribune, and such magazines as Child and Backpacker; his award-winning radio work has been heard on public radio shows like “All Things Considered,” “Marketplace,” and “Splendid Table.” He has been on staff at the Philadelphia Daily News, the Raleigh News & Observer, and Nashville Public Radio, where he produced and directed the weekly magazine show, “Mainstream Drive.” He has taught writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Berry College. He currently spends most of his time writing books – his most recent, No-Man’s Lands, details his journey retracing the travels of the Homeric hero Odysseus. |
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Kate Pattison
Kate Pattison spent eight years working as an archaeologist in Vermont, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and the Bahamas. She began writing a weekly historical column about Raleigh, North Carolina, for the Raleigh Public Record last December. Pattison regularly writes blog posts, newsletter features and news summaries for the non-profit environmental group Toxic Free North Carolina. She volunteers for the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association’s biannual Farm Tour, the Wake County Boys Club garden, and has served on the board of the North Carolina Archaeological Society. She is currently pursuing a certificate in Sustainable Agriculture from Central Carolina Community College in Pittsboro, North Carolina. |
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Dick Reavis
Dick J. Reavis is a magazine writer (Texas Monthly, 1977-1990) and author who now teaches journalism in the English department at NCSU. He is also a Nieman Fellow (’90), a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, and a veteran of the Southern Civil Rights Movement (Marengo County, Ala., 1965-66). His books include Conversations with Moctezuma (Wm. Morrow, 1990) and The Ashes of Waco (Simon & Schuster, 1995). He recruited, edited and translated Diary of an Undocumented Immigrant, by Ramon “Tianguis” Perez (Arte Publico Press, 1991.) Photo: Reavis speaks with a 13-year-old FARC guerrilla in Columbia in 2000. |
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Cat Warren
Cat Warren is associate professor in the Department of English at North Carolina State University where she teaches in the journalism program and in the technical communications program. She was a newspaper reporter during the 1980s for The Sacramento Bee and The Hartford Courant, among others. She has garnered several reporting awards for investigative reporting, as well as education coverage. She has also worked as an editor at a university press and at two university news bureaus. She writes occasionally for the Independent. She has a master’s degree in journalism and a doctorate in communications |
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Yolanda D. McGill – General Counsel
Yolanda 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. Yolanda then worked in the Triangle for three years before her admission as a Clarence Darrow Scholar to the University of Michigan Law School. She earned her J.D. in 1999 and began practicing as an associate with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in Washington, D.C. McGill then left D.C. for Berlin, Germany, upon her selection as a Bosch Fellow, where she advised Deutsche Bank and consultants on U.S. law. In 2003 Ms. McGill was back in Raleigh combating predatory lending practices as a policy counsel, then senior policy counsel with the Center for Responsible Lending, an affiliate of Self-Help Credit Union of Durham. 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 principal at McGillLaw PLLC. |
The Raleigh Public Record is brand new and just getting up to speed. The idea is to create a non-profit journalism source to cover Raleigh. We are in organizing mode trying to put together a community to produce and support the site and the idea. We are looking for people to cover city government and politics, crime, education, the environment, growth, development and all the other issues facing the many communities in Raleigh. We are also looking columnists and reviewers to cover life and arts in Raleigh. Check out the Contact page to get in touch with the editor.
Contact Christie Starnes at cstarnes(at)raleighpublicrecord.org for information about advertising on the Raleigh Public Record website. A note on political advertising: the Raleigh Public Record is a non-partisan organization and will accept advertising from candidates for public office regardless of political affiliation.
The Raleigh Public Record is accepting applications for unpaid 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.
