Coastal Journalism Hub
Building a media ecosystem for community health.
Coastal Journalism Hub connects local newsrooms, storytellers, and community organizations across coastal North Carolina to strengthen journalism and advance community health. We support solutions-based reporting through collaboration, shared data, and sustained engagement with the communities at the center of this work.
About the Hub
Coastal Journalism Hub builds the relationships and reporting infrastructure that make stronger coverage possible. We connect community insight, research, engagement, and journalism so stories about health in coastal North Carolina are deeper, more accurate, and grounded in the experiences of the people most impacted.
We advance a media ecosystem for health—one that helps residents understand the forces shaping their wellbeing, elevates local solutions, and supports communities working toward lasting change.
What we do
We are a collaborative of people and projects, rooted in coastal North Carolina. Together, we grow solutions-based journalism grounded in community collaboration.
Through shared stories, shared data, shared training, and shared resources, we expand coverage of the health issues that shape coastal life: from clean water and climate impacts to housing, work, care, and community safety.
We are working together to
Who’s in the Network
Coastal Journalism Hub is a nonprofit network of local news organizations, arts institutions, health and human services groups, and civic partners. Network members collaborate on reporting, community listening, training, and public storytelling focused on the conditions that shape community health. The network continues to grow as partners come together around shared priorities and place-based work.
We are building this network through long-standing relationships and a shared commitment to coastal communities.
Why Health
Health is more than hospitals and clinics. It is housing, clean air and water, fair work, safe streets, strong schools, and the ability to shape decisions that affect our lives.
By connecting journalism with on-the-ground community work and research, Coastal Journalism Hub helps people see the full picture: what’s working, what’s not, and where local solutions are already taking root.
Coastal Journalism Hub Newsletter
Stories, data, and community insight from across coastal North Carolina—delivered to your inbox.
Sign up to:
- follow new reporting and storytelling projects,
- learn about trainings and resources for journalists and community partners, and
- hear how people across the region are building a healthier information ecosystem.
Get Involved
If you are a journalist, researcher, organizer, health worker, or community storyteller working in coastal North Carolina, we’d like to be in conversation with you.
You can:
- pitch a story or project idea,
- share data or community research that needs a reporting partner, or
- invite us to collaborate on a training or public conversation.