After he entered it in a photo contest in 2007, it soon became the stuff of internet legend, launching disaster girl memes around the world: Zoë looking back as the Titanic sinks, Zoë looking back as a mushroom cloud rises, Zoë looking back from the burning house saying, She Should Of Made Me Cookies!!!!
Now, Zoë is a 21-year-old senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who works at an Italian restaurant. Earlier this month came a big payoff for all this fame: A nonfungible token, or NFT, of the original copy of the iconic photo sold at auction for nearly $500,000. The buyer is 3F Music, a music studio based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which has collected several other NFTs.
1619 Project writer to join UNC journalism school faculty
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones will join the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s journalism school in July as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism.
Hannah-Jones, who covers civil rights and racial justice for The New York Times Magazine, won the 2020 Pulitzer for commentary for an essay she wrote as part of The 1619 Project, which highlights the long-term consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans.
The appointment marks a return to the university for Hannah-Jones, who earned a master’s degree at its Hussman School of Journalism and Media in 2003.
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Everyone grows up on the internet these days and Zoe Roth is no exception.
Known as Disaster Girl , she became famous for a meme that made the round years ago when she was just 4 years old in front of a burning home, smiling as if she somehow caused this disaster.
Now, at the age of 21, she has made $500,000 from the NFT sale of that very meme and is living a pretty normal life. She is a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying peace, war and defense. She has never been recognized as “Disaster Girl” outright, she said, but most of her friends and acquaintances know of her meme fame.
Pleasanton Weekly selected to participate in national journalism project
In era of revenue declines, intensive training focuses on helping news organizations develop sustainable business models
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Like news organizations across the United States, Embarcadero Media publisher of three newspapers and six community websites in the Bay Area, including the Pleasanton Weekly and DanvilleSanRamon.com has been working to reinvent itself as the traditional newspaper business model of advertising has declined.
Now, the company is getting support from the Facebook Journalism Project to build a sustainable business by focusing on memberships, much like public radio and television stations have been engaged in for years.