Editor’s Notes
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Queen City Nerve Announces Immediate Closure
Having launched in December 2018, Queen City Nerve has proudly published around 200 print newspapers, 100+ podcasts and thousands of online pieces covering local news as well as the city’s rich cultural, arts, music and culinary scenes. Today, we sadly must announce the closure of Queen City Nerve after nearly…
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Why We’re Halting Publication of Queen City Nerve in Print
This morning, we should be delivering our latest print issue — Vol. 8, Issue 19, to be specific. Unfortunately, we will not be putting out a new print issue today, nor any new print editions for the foreseeable future. Due to financial hardships that began in 2025, followed by a…
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Editor’s Note: Why We’re Taking Down Our Paywall
Dear Readers, Back in June, I wrote about our decision to implement a $1-per-month paywall to access all of our online content. As I described in an Editor’s Note at the time, we came to that decision reluctantly following a rough six months that saw our advertising revenues drop dramatically. …
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EDITOR’S NOTE: A Buck a Month Is All We Ask
I haven’t written an Editor’s Note in a while, mostly because any thoughts I have to share with readers get dumped into our thrice-weekly newsletter before they can make it onto our website, but today I have some news I want to share specifically with our website readers. That’s because…
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Editor’s Note: Cheers to Five Years!
It feels great to be turning 5! I will admit that there were plenty of times during the last half-decade in business as Queen City Nerve that I wasn’t so sure that we’d make it, as we flew by the seat of our pants fueled by nothing but a dream.…
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Queen City Nerve Announces Three New Hires
As we approach our 5-year anniversary here at Queen City Nerve, we are experiencing some exciting changes to follow the growth we’ve seen over the past year or so. Early in August, our digital editor Karie Simmons resigned her position after two great years with our team. We’ll miss Karie…
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Editor’s Note: Best in the Nest 2022 is a Look Back from the Future
It’s hard to believe that we’re here bringing you our fourth annual Best in the Nest issue. I remember sitting in this same office building (in a much smaller office) working on our first Best in the Nest in 2019, and to think about how much we have all been…
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Editor’s Note: Queen City Nerve Is a Matter of Passion
In an Editor’s Note that we published in the second issue of Queen City Nerve, which published on Dec. 19, 2018, I wrote about the experience of putting out our first one two weeks previously. “I’ve never experienced a day quite like Dec. 5, which was our first print day…
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Editor’s Note: Best in the Nest Is a Guide, Not a Competition
We came into this year with such hope. A vaccine had been developed, researched, and found to be safe and effective, and after one of the more stressful years in modern history, there was a light at the end of the tunnel. Despite the optimism that came with mass vaccination…
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Editor’s Note: Courageous SHIFT Fights the Good Fight Against All Odds
I first met Courageous SHIFT founder Melody Gross in 2018 while working on a series of stories about domestic violence in Charlotte. We met up at an old Dupp&Swatt location on The Plaza, and I was immediately struck by the figure she cut despite being more than a foot shorter…
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Editor’s Note: Telling Both Sides of Charlotte History
This week’s issue marks the return of local historian Pamela Grundy’s Black History of Charlotte series, which we began publishing as a five-part series last summer, and which we’re picking back up with a prequel of sorts this week. Since the original series began at the end of the Civil…
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Editor’s Note: Meck Dec Day and Charlotte’s Racist History
In our latest News feature, Ryan Pitkin talks to local author and social entrepreneur Justin Jones-Fosu about diversity and inclusion, topics on which he sometimes leads workshops and are the focal points of his new book, The Inclusive Mindset. In the chat, Ryan brings up a recent movement, made up…
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Editor’s Note: Cherry’s Longtime Leaders Are Not for the Disrespect
Barbara Rainey has seen a lot of change in Cherry over her 70 years. Having lived the first 33 years of her life on a house on Cherry Street, then the next 37 on nearby Baldwin Avenue, Rainey looks back to a time when her mother and aunt lived in…
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Editor’s Note: Keeping Mary’s Voice Alive
At around sunset on April 4, 2021, a group of about 60 people gathered at Davis Flohr Neighborhood Park in NoDa for a candlelight vigil memorializing Mary Collins, a 20-year-old woman whose body was recovered from an apartment complex on Rollerton Road just blocks away from the park one year…
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Editor’s Note: Second-Chance Employment Is a Forgotten Part of the Justice Conversation
When I first met Patrice Funderburg in the summer of 2017, she was in the basement of a church in west Charlotte, leading a discussion group made up of 15 people that were analyzing Michelle Alexander’s best-selling book, The New Jim Crow. Much of the talk at the church that…
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Editor’s Note: The Crisis Doesn’t Disappear with Tent City
Standing in her rainbow-tie-dyed sweatsuit, purple headband, and pink rain boots, Victoria Boyd was the most colorful person at Tent City as the sun set on Friday, Feb. 19. She was also one of the last. An hour after a county-imposed deadline had passed ordering everyone out of the encampments…
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