There were fact-finding excursions to the Texas Observer and Flint Voice newsrooms Schewel spent a week at the latter at the sharp elbow of filmmaker-to-be Michael Moore. Of course, much had developed in the 10 months before the official debut. The first North Carolina Independent came out on April 16, 1983, with a cover story about toxic waste. In 1982, in the heat of June, they plunked a desk into a cinder-block room on Durham’s Hillsborough Road, where exhaust and weed smoke seeped in from the auto shop next door. He proposed starting a newspaper to fellow protester Dave Birkhead, who was already setting type for small leftist organizations in the Regulator Bookshop. The North Carolina Independent’s first edition-April 16, 1983.
This animating tension is the paper’s proudest tradition, the foundation of both its imperfect yet important place in local life and its national renown for unflinching, sometimes outrageous, yet sternly principled reporting.Īnd it was set in motion at the very beginning, when the ideological spark of publisher Steve Schewel met the journalistic fuel of editor Katherine Fulton. It had no arts coverage, and the only web involved was web offset printing, still used to press the newspapers that exist today.īut after all these changes, one constant (besides its age-old nickname) still makes the INDY the INDY: the friction between passionate progressive politics and rigorous conventional journalism, which generates the energy it takes to power a just democracy. Whereas INDY Week focuses on the Triangle, covers arts as well as news, and publishes weekly in print and daily online, its original iteration, The North Carolina Independent, later and more lastingly known as The Independent Weekly, covered the whole state, sold subscriptions, and published biweekly.
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