Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: C26254
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From the Lexington Herald-Leader, Lexington, Kentucky, via Knight Ridder Tribune Business News. 2 pages., Describes career of Al Smith, long-time host and producer of the public affairs television show, "Comment on Kentucky." He previously headed a chain of rural weekly newspapers in Kentucky.
Cross, Al (author) and Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, Lexington, Kentucky.
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Paper
Publication Date:
2007-04-20
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USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25730
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Via Institute web site. 3 pages., Paper presented at the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, April 20-21, 2007, at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky. Emphasizes importance of addressing the needs of rural America through journalism.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25699
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Via Messenger Online. 2 pages., Announces the Ezzell family of the Canadian Record newspaper (Canadian, Texas) as winner of the Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage, tenacity and integrity in rural journalism. Award presented by the Institute of Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Posted at http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/07-4NRwinter/p53-curley.html, Editor explains how memories of how local newspapers served his family in rural Kansas helped him and his associates create hyperlocal news coverage for the Washington Post newspaper. "The nature of local journalism has not changed significantly in many years."
Brown, Laurie Ezzell (author / Canadian Record, Canadian, Texas)
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
2007-04-20
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25753
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Presented in acceptance of the Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage, tenacity and integrity in rural journalism. Presented by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, Lexington, Kentucky, April 20, 2007. 3 pages.
Summarizes activities at the first National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, convened by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues.
