Big-box stores draining, reshaping economies, character of nation's small towns

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    Article
    Publication Date:
    2005-06-12
    URL:
    http://www.uky.edu/CommInfoStudies/IRJCI/knightrabenstott.htm
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23424
    Subject Term:
    advertising, communities, community development, development issues, food industries, newspapers, retail, rural communities, and rural community development
    Notes:
    From the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 1 page., Report from an economic session of "Rural America, Community Issues," a conference programmed by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues for the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, University of Maryland, June 12-17, 2005. Focuses, in particular, on the impact of Wal-Mart on rural communities and media.

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