Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: D11589
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5 pages., Online via publisher. 5 pages., Author interviewed Al Cross, director of the Institute of Rural Journalism and Community Issues, about the background of the Rural Blog and more generally about changes in the ways national and local journalists cover - or talk about- rural journalism. Other topics involved gaps in national news coverage about rural areas, who is doing rural journalism well, and effects of newspaper ownership changes in the types of stories that rural news outlets cover.
