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."
Summarizes activities at the first National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, convened by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues.
Via online issue. 2 pages., One of five articles featuring "The challenges of rural journalism" in this special section of the May 2007 issue of Montana Journalism Review. Author identifies five lessons she has learned in covering the rural West.
Announces Sigma Delta Chi award presented to two reporters from Chicago Public Radio for their radio documentary about funding disparities for education in Illinois due to reliance on property taxes. Two rural schools and communities highlighted. The 29-minute program was available on
Posted at http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/07-4NRwinter/p57-leonard.html, Describes local news coverage in the rural and suburban areas outside Chicago.
Wylie, John M. II (author) and Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, Lexington, Kentucky.
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2007-04-20
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25731
Notes:
Via Institute web site. 2 pages., Paper presented at the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, April 20-21, 2007, at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky.
Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, Lexington, Kentucky.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2007-04-20
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25726
Notes:
Via Institute web site. 4 pages., Summarizes discussion at the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, April 20-21, 2007, at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky.
Shafer, Mary Jo (author) and Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, Lexington, Kentucky.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2007-04-20
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25727
Notes:
Via Institute web site. 5 pages., Summarizes discussion at the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, April 20-21, 2007, at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky.
