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Showing posts with label newspapers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newspapers. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

The cat's out of the bag now: Kentucky is home to one of journalism's rising stars

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Grant Gerstner after being presented first place in print reporting  at the CFINR annual awards ceremony. (Photo via the Era) Grant Gerstne...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Nominations sought for the Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage, integrity and tenacity in rural journalism by June 15

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Tom and Pat Gish Each year the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues presents the national Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

June 1 is deadline for nominations for the Al Smith Award for public service through community journalism

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Al Smith The Bluegrass Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Commentary: Why one journalist traded covering national news for a small-town newspaper in Big Sky Country

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After he left a national media career to become editor of the Glasgow Courier in Glasgow, Montana, this journalist began to see his writing...
Friday, February 13, 2026

Report for America seeks service-minded journalists and photographers: Application deadline is Feb. 16

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Report for America, the national service program that places early-career and experienced journalists and photographers in local newsrooms t...

Community newspaper publishers voice frustration over USPS costs and delivery delays

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Delayed newspapers can hurt a publisher's bottom line. (Photo via NiemanLab) U.S. Postal Service cost-cutting measures and process chang...
Friday, January 23, 2026

Study: Gen Z journalists may be avoiding rural newsrooms

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Some younger journalists worry that rural newsrooms might be too conservative for them. (Adobe Stock photo) Gen Z journalists may be steered...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Research shows that government transparency decreases without newspapers

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Photo by Ashni, Unsplash A study comparing freedom of information requests in relation to news deserts showed that governments were less tr...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Reminder: Apply by Oct. 20 to host a journalist with support from Report for America

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The deadline for newsrooms to apply to host a reporter with financial support from Report for America is Oct. 20. A sample application can...
Tuesday, October 07, 2025

Journalists at rural Alaska newspapers quit over abrupt corporate edits to Kirk story that upset a state politician

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Photo by Mark Sabbatini, Juneau Independent Four journalists resigned from newspapers in rural Alaska after the publications’ corporate owne...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Former 'city dweller' explores rural-urban divide in new graphic novel

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Mahadavian reflects on rural life and the rural-urban  divide in his new novel,  This Country . (Yonder photo)   In his new graphic novel , ...
Friday, September 12, 2025

The Mountain Citizen of Inez, Ky., wins the 2025 Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage, integrity and tenacity in rural journalism

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A scrappy little newspaper that has fought for more than 30 years for clean water and open government in its Appalachian county is the winne...

Apply by Oct. 20 to host a journalist with support from Report for America

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Applications to receive support for a reporter for your local news organization through Report for America  will open on Sept. 15.  Report f...

Quick hits: Newspaper sitcom; free child care; inspiring cave cleanup; soybean field discovery; dark sky ruminating

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Can a sitcom about journalism capture its 'grit, humanity, and relentless optimism'? Keeping a local newspaper alive is one thing, b...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Illinois publisher closes newspapers in five states, leaving some towns as 'news deserts'

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The Brookings Register was the area's last local news source.  Update: "R ecently shuttered newspapers across Wyoming and South D...
Friday, July 18, 2025

Quick hits: Visit the last linotype machine newspaper; 'app store accountability' law; memoir celebrates snail mail delivery; small town battle over Buc-ee's

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While other papers have transitioned to computer technology, the Saguache Crescent remains the country's last linotype machine newspape...
Friday, June 13, 2025

Marfa, Texas, may be small, but it has a big newspaper success story

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Co-owner Max Kabat keeps the cafe stocked with Big Bend  Sentinel newspapers. (CBS video clip) Like many rural newspapers in towns off the b...
Tuesday, April 01, 2025

Jeremy Gulban is serious about saving local newspapers. 'It’s kind of crazy,' but he's trying to find a way.

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Jeremy Gulban Jeremy Gulban is a man on a mission to save at least 92 community newspapers from shuttering their doors. While he's out i...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

A small town saves its local newspaper with citizen-led fundraising and a 2-year search for a new owner

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There's a new paper in town for La Conner, Wash. When their small-town newspaper closed, the citizens of La Conner, Wash., didn't si...
Friday, December 06, 2024

Vilsack says legacy of his 12 years at USDA is new revenue sources that will help smaller farmers and small towns

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Rural voters strongly rejected President Biden, but his administration has started programs that are already reversing the decline of rural ...