Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23813
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E-Media Tidbits via Poynteronline. 1 page, Cites a rural newspaper editor who suggests: "As small papers concentrate their energy from print to digital, I think we are cutting off our collective noses to spite the face of community journalism - and not fighting for the attention of readers."
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 Document Number: C23819
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Reviewed 3/13/2006 at http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=83144, Via Poynteronline. 8 pages, Discusses values and methods of computer assisted reporting (CAR) programs at newspapers. Cites an example involving an investigative series, "Boss Hog, North Carolina pork revolution." Reporters used CAR to enrich some stories about links between Murphy Farms and state policies involving sewage disposition regulations on hog farms.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23924
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Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. 4 pages., Results of a content analysis of rural development coverage by regional newspapers in three newly formed states in India.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23926
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Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. 2 pages., Analysis shows gap between newspaper content and village conditions. Author quotes one village source: "Water, forest and land are traditional system here. Our culture is linked with it. Newspaper should."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23929
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Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. Reprinted from the Hindu, December 19, 2004. 3 pages., "The rural news network is live and well." Two newspapers compete in starting local editions, using stringers. Article describes the careers and activities of these rural reporters.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23930
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Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. 3 pages., Describes the approach of a vernacular fortnightly published in Orissa's Western Nuapada district. "Besides being interactive and people-centred, the newspaper makes people cognizant of their rights."
Ninan, Sevanti (author) and Malaviya, Sushmita (author)
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Report
Publication Date:
2004-06-28
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India
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23931
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Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. 6 pages., "Two years ago newspaper publishers in these parts witnessed a decline in circulation because of the influence of electronic media. But now there is a whole new territory being carved out in Hindi-speaking rural India b y newspapers which see their urban markets stagnating, and advertising being taken away by TV channels."
