Case report of a deceased rural community newspaper in Australia which was revived, using simple digital publishing systems with reporting (college students working under instruction from the community) and production staff based 735 kilometers away. Findings illustrated the importance of local editorial control.
Via UNC Research website. 6 pages., UNC students and faculty help community newspapers in North Carolina and across the country transform their product for the digital age.
Amjad, Khadija (author) and Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2008-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 170 Document Number: C28540
Notes:
Via Media Re:public Case Studies 2008: news and information as digital media come of age. 6 pages., Describes development and approach of a news website that serves several rural towns in New Hampshire.
"T. Harold Forbes and Francis T. Hunter are the youthful team who turned suddenly from entertainment and sport to clip the long whiskers of country journalism, put it into a suit of modern clothes and bring it smack up to date."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25525
Notes:
Retrieved February 7, 2007, Presented at the Newspapers and Community-Building Symposium XI co-sponsored by the Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media at Kansas State University and the National Newspaper Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 29-30, 2005. 23 pages.
