KARLO: the comment about newspapers in general, KARLO: in terms of I actually think newspapers have a longer lifespan than people think. To some in social work and beyond, the news that ruralitythe condition of being ruralstill exists in the United States may be a surprise.That this book is published by Columbia University Press, in many ways the most obviously urban of university presses . The importance of organizing diverse local residents to help shape local development cannot be overstated. Finally, the essay provides ive points to consider in . Hence, the importance of this study is to test whether campus ray newspaper fulfil its role as a community medium and also as a tool for development. The open records laws are something that are hard won and often fought for and sometimes there are regressions but for the most part, they do the job that they need to do. None of this has made for pleasant reading, but now many of those rural communities find theres no local news to read at all. NELSON: Im sure theres a contact us back, right. But to go back to Barbaras original point, her passion is amazing and I find that in the e-mail and the calls that we get and the personal one-on-one conversations that we get from our readers at the voiceofsandiego.org, there are an immense number of people who have an insatiable curiosity about this community and have an unending need for news and they cannot get enough of it. NELSON: Im Dean Nelson, director of the journalism program at Point Loma Nazarene University and Im sitting in for Maureen Cavanaugh, and youre listening to These Days on KPBS. But the other thing youre doing, which I think brings to light what at least what the U-T and the voiceofsandiego.org do is, we often provide primary source documents, which is what you used to prove thats wrong. Many editors were skeptical of the notion out of a desire to retain independent from even perceived government influence. Readership up? I think Ive heard that from all of you in one manner or another. It matters to her grandmother and all her friends and family, and they read this paper.. Seeing their stories and their names in print gives meaning to their lives and their part of the world. Thank you. Rory Devine is now almost exclusively doing education, which she was always kind of doing education but. However, The Bridge, now in the hands of former sheep farmer and diesel mechanic Lloyd Polkinghorne, has not only continued to print throughout the COVID-19 crisis but has expanded its circulation, and in early June this year posted its first online edition. Finding #1: Through connection to place governance organizations, downtown revitalization helps increase small businesses' and entrepreneurs' access to capital, skills training, and. DAWSON: Yeah, and I think, you know, every medium has its different role and, you know, local television news, you know, has focused more on the surface and its funny, you know, years ago people would say, well, you know, for more depth, read the paper. It may be praised one week and dog-cussed the next, but it is not only impossible, but really not important that it be liked. Theres a credibility issue there, isnt there, with that kind of speed? If you looked at the footprint of the U-T in this market, it is many fold larger, the print piece alone, than any other medium. The paper examines rural or community development in Nigeria with emphasis on the institutions, agencies, policies and strategies employed to bring about the much needed . EIN: 85-1311683. philanthropy is funding innovative local newsrooms. And to be anything other than in error is an improvement on our normal condition. NELSON: Well, in fact, go ahead. NELSON: Thats one of the problems with online. I actually agree with Barbara that Im not sure our populous is well informed and well educated on important issues when they go to the ballot box. And so they want to know why does it matter to me and were, BARRETT: And thats why weve partnered, is to really better serve the audience. Can we expect to ever see major investigative pieces like the Duke Cunningham scandal or the Tailhook scandal or something like that? LIGHT: Oh, I think were doing well. The answers are generally favorable, with improved employment conditions, earnings, and incomes; lower poverty rates; and healthier and better educated populations. Just click and send or you can send it to me, editor@uniontrib.com and, you know, were obviously, this is the life blood of what we do. Yeah, I just wanted to say one thing that really bothers me is that supposedly were supposed to get both sides. And I believe its important for us pay attention to what Barbaras saying, KARLO: because I see young people who will say to me, oh, I get my news from The Daily Show. Even though this is a global trend, it is steadily trending in developing societies. NELSON: This is Greg Dawson from NBC 7/39. So we take that data, we generate stories about salaries, about budgets, about discrepancies, about graft and fraud and that sort of thing, about a mortgage swindle. NELSON: Where were all of you on this whole pension thing? Rural schools and communities have a number of strengths that outsiders typically overlook, including a very strong sense of community and lots of opportunity for teachers and other educators looking to make a difference. And among the good ones, the ones who endure and even prosper, there is always to be found one common denominator - trust. During my first week, Mrs Leslie Taylor dropped in to proudly announce her six-year-old granddaughter had won a national drawing competition. You need to get things out in a timely way when they mean something to people but I felt this Shirley Sherrod case of a few weeks ago really showed those two problems coming together into one, you know, terrible debacle in other, NELSON: And this was looking at one piece of a speech and just not seeing it in context and. To me, being first is much less important than being correct, so Im much more focused on having things be accurate. Without the paper, they are left unsung," Omdahl writes. And a lot of the journalism that is being done now, when we talk about getting rid of the fat middle, the stuff that was fun to do but maybe didnt impact our readers, a lot of the journalism that weI think everyone at this tableis focusing on now is the journalism that matters most to our readers, listeners, consumers, users, whatever you want to call them.