Announces Sigma Delta Chi award presented to the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper (Pennsylvania) for coverage of terrorism in an Amish community. "A world apart, shattered" was published October 3, 2006, p. A01.
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.
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
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C36924
Notes:
3 pages., Representative of TVE Asia Pacific speaks about his comments at the 8th Annual Symposium on Poverty Research in Sri Lanka. His session title: "Taking it off the page: alternative mediums of communication to influence change." Comments on inept media coverage of the poor and offers some basic rules of engagement in "telling media stories from the Bottom of the Pyramid."
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.
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.
