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
Notes:
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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25603
Notes:
Retrieved March 19, 2007, Presented to the Agricultural Communications Section, Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists Annual Meeting, Mobile, Alabama, February 3-6, 2007. 18 pages.
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.
Evans, Jim (author) and International Federation of Agricultural Journalists.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2007-06-30
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C25978
Notes:
3 pages., Features a newspaper publishing family honored for courage, tenacity and integrity by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues.
