Hotel-reservation deadline is Friday for the July 7 National Summit on Journalism in Rural America; the event is free

Friday, June 30, is the last day to take advantage of the room block for the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, to be held July 7 in Lexington, Ky., and online. The summit will be held at the Campbell House Curio Hotel, 10 minutes from the Lexington airport. For information and free registration, click here.

The Summit will include some of the latest research on rural journalism; the experiences of some successful rural publishers and start-ups, both digital and print; philanthropy for rural jouranalism; efforts to change state policies to help local news; and university programs to fill gaps in local news coverage. For a program outline, click here.

Registration for the Summit is free. It is sponsored by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues (publisher of The Rural Blog) at the University of Kentucky. For a closer look at the presenters, click here.