September 14, 2023
COMJIG AEJMC 2024 Call for Panels
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COMJIG is looking for panel interest for our interest group's conference agenda at AEJMC 2024 next August in Philadelphia. Think of su...
September 01, 2023
Report takes deep look at university statehouse reporting projects
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The decline in statehouse reporting across the US has been well- documented. It's also been documented how damaging this is to public kn...
Helping faculty build community and statehouse news partnerships
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There are a couple of interesting community journalism conferences this month https://www.uvm.edu/ccn/events One focuses on university-spon...
April 27, 2023
Rural Journalism Summit
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The third National Summit on Journalism in Rural America will be held Friday, July 7, at the Campbell House hotel on US 68 in Lexington, KY...
October 03, 2022
ComJIG AEJMC 2023 Call for Panels
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The Community Journalism Interest Group needs your help brainstorming and planning panels for COMJIG for AEJMC 2023 in Washington, D.C. We w...
September 23, 2022
Panel call, AEJMC 2023 meeting - Oct. 7 deadline
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COMJIG members, note. Please contact COMJIG vice chair Aaron Atkins ( datkins@weber.edu ) with your ideas. Deadline: Submission of all pane...
September 07, 2022
Science Training for Local Journalists
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On Sept. 15, SciLine, part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, will have a free, one-hour online session of "C...
August 23, 2022
Arkansas and her weekly win Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage, integrity and tenacity in rural journalism
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An Arkansas publisher and her weekly newspaper, which revealed school officials’ cover-up of sexual-abuse allegations by students in the fac...
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June 10, 2022
University help for community journalism among topics at weekly editors' conference in Kentucky June 20-23
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By Al Cross Director and professor, Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky Editorial critique session a...
June 09, 2022
Some university professors and journalism programs are helping rural newspapers; one says they are way overdue
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One in a series of reports on the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, held June 3-4 by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Co...
June 02, 2022
National Summit on Journalism in Rural America This Week
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The National Summit on Journalism in Rural America is this Friday and Saturday (June 3-4). It will be livestreamed. Details at https://www.n...
May 25, 2022
Using census data, a goldmine fior community journalists
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Census data has a wealth of potential stories for community journalists. And with the onlinevtools, it's one of the easiest data source...
May 19, 2022
Mapping tool for small newsrooms
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From the Reynolds Journalism Institute, details of mapping tool Flourish, which may be especially useful for small newsrooms. https://rjion...
February 28, 2022
Local news: Some sobering statistics
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CJR looks at the shrinkage in local newsrooms not just from the view of simply percentage decline in overall numbers but in light of some o...
February 21, 2022
Gen Z and news
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Some interesting insights into Gen Z and how they want their news. https://pressgazette.co.uk/survey-gen-z-news/
February 18, 2022
AEJMC 2022: Community Journalism Paper Call (Deadline April 1)
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The Community Journalism Interest Group (ComJIG) invites scholarly submissions from faculty and graduate students for its competitive paper ...
December 02, 2021
AEJMC SE Colloquium Deadline Dec 18
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A reminder that the paper submission deadline for the AEJMC Southeast Colloquium is just a few days away. https://www.memphis.edu/jrsm/sout...
October 20, 2021
Akron's Devil Strip local news co-op shuts down unexpectedly
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It's unclear how a news co-op could shut down suddenly and unilaterally. But the sudden demise of Akron's Devil Strip may be an impo...
October 18, 2021
Call for Contributors: Issues Facing Contemporary American Journalism: History, Context, and Perspectives
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There is currently a call for book chapters and essays for the upcoming book Is sues Facing Contemporary American Journalism: History, Conte...
October 17, 2021
Survival of local news: The view from on the ground
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The latest from the Post and Courier's excellent "Uncovered" series documenting how corruption flourishes when local news with...
October 13, 2021
Missouri publishers return papers to local ownership as Gannett sheds titles
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Gannett is shedding newspapers across the country after its merger with GateHouse Media. It has shed 12 in Missouri, and local publishers ar...
ISWNE/Huck Boyd Competition Call for Proposals
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The International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors (ISWNE) is looking for paper proposals for its ISWNE/Huck Boyd Competition. Proposals ...
October 09, 2021
Build reader engagement with current resources -- RJI
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Reynolds Journalism Institute has a "how we do it" piece from fellow Kate Abbey-Lambetz detailing how Detour Detroit gets reader ...
Helping smaller newsrooms meet photo and video needs
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From Reynolds Fellow Aaron Eaton: Over the next month, I would love to speak with as many smaller local newsrooms as possible to gain more...
October 08, 2021
When a newspaper chain lets a community's small daily newspaper deteriorate
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From The Rural Blog All across America, small newspapers are shriveling, mainly because digital media have taken much of their advertising b...
New Tow Center report paints detailed, sometimes troubling, picture of community journalism
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Tow Center report based on 2020 survey and compared with similar in 2016. Newspaper centered. [D]espite seeing potential for the industry, 6...
October 04, 2021
Call for Proposals: ISWNE/Huck Boyd "Strengthening Community News" research competition
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The International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors (ISWNE) and the Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media at...
March 20, 2021
Al Smith, who co-founded Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues after weekly-newspaper publishing career, dies at 94
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Albert P. Smith Jr. Al Smith, who published weekly newspapers in Kentucky and Tennessee and co-founded the Institute for Rural Journalism an...
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December 30, 2020
Tim Crews, late California editor-publisher, wins Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage, integrity and tenacity in rural journalism
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Tim Crews of the Sacramento Valley Mirror held up a toothbrush outside a county jail after serving five days in 2000 for refusing to give up...
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