Online U.S. edition of the Guardian newspaper. 4 pages., "Local journalism is doing great work across the country while fighting cutbacks and tight budgets. But we need people to stop expecting news to be free.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23814
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Via Poynteronline. 3 pages, Author argues that "journalism on a smaller scale provides a bigger opportunity to connect with (and answer to) readers and viewers." Cites an experience in which a reporter at a small daily newspaper on the coast of rural North Carolina told her readers that the water was polluted with cancer-causing chemicals and that city leaders had known about the pollutants for many years without doing anything. She received a Pulitzer Gold Medal for Meritorious Public Service, but a hostile reception, locally, by people upset by the uproar she had caused in the community.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25526
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Retrieved February 6, 2007, Presented at the Newspapers and Community-Building Symposium VIII co-sponsored by the Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media at Kansas State University and the National Newspaper Association, Portland, Oregon, September 2002. 26 pages., Issues related to covering the Walkerton water crisis.