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The Assembly Announces Plans to Double its Reach to North Carolina News Markets

Travis Dove for The Assembly

The news organization is building a ten-market local news network across the state.

The Assembly has been selected as one of six newsrooms in the first cohort of the NOTUS Washington Bureau Initiative.

As we end our fourth year, we’re working to become your essential news subscription. Here’s how.

The addition to The Assembly’s network will expand and elevate coverage from Bladen, Columbus, Robeson, and Scotland counties.

Photo illustration created in Canva.

These are our stories that made the biggest waves this year, from beach shades to porn shop allegations to mushroom tourism.

Some of the most memorable photography we published this year.

Illustration by Mathias Marchington for The Assembly

Here are our staff’s favorite stories published throughout the year, which we are putting outside our paywall as a special gift to you.

The Columbus County Sheriff's Office in Whiteville. (Photo by Johanna F. Still)

Columbus County’s handling of public records “evinces a pattern of ongoing and willful defiance of our state’s transparency laws.”

Along with Ponysaurus Brewing Co., we’re launching a new beer that will help fund additional reporting positions across the state.

The Assembly launches its Greensboro bureau.

Announcing the launch of our Greensboro bureau and the team that will help make it a new journalistic force in the region.