Rural Journalism

11/06/2023

Through Dec. 31, the Institute for Rural Journalism's donation page is dedicated to raising money for Kentucky Health News, which is now a member of the Institute for Nonprofit News and its NewsMatch program, which will match your donation!

By Al Cross , Publisher, Kentucky Health News Director emeritus, Institute for Rural Journalism, University of Kentucky For more than a doze...

10/30/2023

At the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues we are displaying most of the work that won Sam Adams and Ben Gish the Al Smith Award for public service through community journalism, presented Thursday night. https://irjci.blogspot.com/2023/07/mountain-eagle-editor-and-reporter-win.html

10/27/2023

Community journalism brings people together, and it's more trusted than journalism in general. There's a lesson in that.

Susan Page listens to a question as moderator Benjy Hamm, director of the Institute for Rural Journalism, listens. (Photo by Patti Cross) "R...

10/25/2023

Looks like an easily localized story that could even generate a little advertising.

Midwestern wells can be contaminated with bacteria and nitrates. (Photo via the Iowa Environmental Council) While millions of rural America...

10/01/2023

In which I say what a newspaper means to a small town.

As many local news outlets scramble to publish after the closure of a Colorado printing press, towns look at options to preserve their voices

09/13/2023

Editors and publishers, ask yourself: Which side are you on?

By Al Cross Director emeritus, Institute for Rural Journalism, University of Kentucky After local police raided the office of the Marion C...

09/06/2023

Report for America has made a special effort to recruit rural news outlets to apply for next year's corps of reporters, and there's a new angle that may appeal to rural editors and publishers.

By Al Cross Director emeritus, Institute for Rural Journalism, University of Kentucky Report for America has become well known for sending p...

08/18/2023

Welcome, Benjy Hamm, as director of the Insfir Rural Journalism!

Benjy Hamm By Benjy Hamm Director, Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues The media world has changed significantly since Al ...

08/17/2023

This week's Marion County Record came out on time, then a local judge ordered the city police to return computers and other materials they seized from the Kansas newspaper on Friday. The paper's been investigating the police chief but hasn't published a story. Yet.

Marion County Record Publisher Eric Meyer talked with journalists after his weekly newspaper hit the stands Wednesday. The subhead reads "bu...

08/14/2023

https://irjci.blogspot.com/2023/08/these-are-hitler-tactics-and-something.html

Meyer pronounced her first name "Joann." “These are Hi**er tactics and something has to be done.” Those were some of the last words said by...

08/04/2023

Uvalde, Texas, was very unlucky last May. But it is lucky to have such a good newspaper.

Uvalde Leader-News Publisher Craig Garnett (OPA photo) Craig Garnett, publisher of the Uvalde Leader-News in southwest Texas, is the winner...

07/24/2023

This always-excellent event overlaps with the National Newspaper Association convention in D.C., but some of us have been known to make both conventions in the same weekend (plus the SPJ convention, which will be in Las Vegas, too far away to do that this time).

Radically Rural , the two-day national summit that features sessions on community journalism, is offering a big program and a new pricing sc...

07/17/2023

How do we define and count ghost newspapers? Perhaps a report of this discussion will start another one.

By Al Cross Director and professor, Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky There seems to be little dou...

07/16/2023

Sometimes the best defense is a good offense, especially if there's an opportunity to grow your market and render more public service.

At least two California newspapers, a daily in the north and a weekly in the south, have stared the realities of the local-news business in ...

07/14/2023

How do you revive a ghost newspaper? At the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, Jeremy Gulban told us how he's trying.

By Al Cross Director and Professor, Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky The owner of dozens of "ghos...

07/14/2023

Our first report on research presented at the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America.

Joey Young of Kansas Publishing Ventures, left, followed Nick Mathews of the University of Missouri, right , to discuss his weekly rural ne...

07/14/2023

One of a series of reports from the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America.

State-level nonprofits or "conservancies" are "the most sustainable path forward for rural newsrooms," the chief portfolio officer of the N...

07/11/2023

They're not revealing the sale price, as usual, but the National Trust for Local News may be making the biggest investment in rural journalism since Warren Buffett got into the business in a big way. He got out, and since then there's been a slow but growing trend to nonprofit ownership. https://irjci.blogspot.com/2023/07/masthead-maine-papers-sold-to-national.html