Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C25987
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Article published in the Times-News, Hendersonville, North Carolina. 2 pages., Describes results of two roundtables that brought the newspaper together with readers "to examine questions of the public's trust in journalism."
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."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C26009
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Via CyberJournalist.net. 1 page., Describes how a core of volunteers set up "sort of a cooperative" in Deerfield, New Hampshire, to form a citizen-written newspaper.
USA: Interstate Printers and Publishers, Danville, Illinois.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23404
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Based on the author's master's thesis, Southern Illinois University., 83 pages., Involves the life and contributions of the publisher of the Mercury-Independent, Grayville, Illinois.
Report of a 2002 Sigma Delta Chi award winner in the category, Feature reporting - photography. The Des Moines (Iowa) Register newspaper created a photo documentary of every county fair in the state (100 fairs in 99 counties). Published 100 photos in a series that "capture the essence of rural Iowan society."
