NELSON: Well, Im glad for the call, Hugh. Every Thursday for almost 20 years, Albert Lyon (right) would buy The Bridge and read it to his good friend, Lenny Logan, beneath the shade of a wattle tree. KARLO: Well, Dean, over the last couple of years weve seen dramatic change in the media landscape, KARLO: both locally, nationally and internationally. "Anybody can audition for a show. The rural public library is gaining enormous importance in rural communities. FAO estimates that if women farmers (43 per cent of the agricultural labour force in developing countries) had the same access as men, agricultural output in 34 developing countries would rise by an estimated average of up to 4 per cent. In May this year, News Limited announced it would cease printing and in some cases publishing up to 100 of its newspapers throughout rural and regional Australia.
Why community newspapers matter | Community Newspapers, Inc BARBARA: And I really cant read it the way I would enjoy reading it because Im clicking on various articles and hoping I can get them on my screen, and its just not the same thing. KARLO: and well take calls and information and we rely very much on people and their information to help get to our editorial team in terms of focusing on stories, especially when there are disasters. And all you had to do was read the page that they even said and a lot of these newspaper things and on TV and radio, if you just read the page that theyre talking about, you could see that it wasnt true. In the eighties, when ATM machines came out, people said, thats it. Well, no, because the stock market was going great and everybody could point to numbers saying its not going to be a problem. I mean, thats how they got into it. Everybody understands the power of, say, The New York Times or The Washington Post, but probably less recognized and appreciated is the power of the Deer Creek Pilot and the thousands of other small, community newspapers just like it all across the land. And so people get the impression that a lot of this stuff thats getting thrown out there is true and nobody calls them. 1 Moreover, rural areas are crucial. Hopefully, that will continue. And we have that kind of talent on staff, and I believe that all the organizations here probably have that kind of talent. Well, maybe not. 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. The newspaper is part of the community or is perceived so by people in that community. BARBARA: Too many of them cant discuss it intelligently so weve dumbed down our whole society. And hes very typical of the kind of people if you can put your teeth into a beat, you can master that beat and generate news by knowing your sources, knowing the organizations and knowing the community really, and having. Youre listening to These Days in San Diego. NELSON: based on foundations and philanthropists? COVID-19 brought these disparities to the surface within most rural communities in the United States, highlighting the limited access to health care specialists and subspecialists. Everyone is vying for their piece of the pie, or the web, and everyone is trying to figure out how to make it economically sustainable. 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. Community journalism is locally-oriented, professional news coverage that typically focuses on city neighborhoods, individual suburbs or small towns, rather than metropolitan, state, national or world news. BARBARA: behind the screens who are reading. And I talk to people in the community and they watch a program like the PBS Newshour on our air at seven oclock, KARLO: at night or our show, television show, San Diego Week, and they say, you know, it was refreshing to actually have a chance to get an in-depth discussion of the important issue. Its success is a tribute to the pride locals have in their newspaper and the respect The Bridges publishers have long had for the community it serves. ERS examined some key questions about the socioeconomic effects of rural recreation development. Youre on These Days. NELSON: Okay. In survey after survey, it is these little community-minded newspapers that are continuing to thrive. The local media is an important part of journalism as it connects people in the community. How do you see this all coming together for local news? LIGHT: Oh, I think were doing well. We are looking at the records.
Rural small businesses need local solutions to survive - Brookings It is a strategy that tries to obtain an improved and productivity, higher socio-economic equality and ambition, and stability in social and economic development. Roughly half of the remaining 7,112 in the country - 1,283 dailies and 5,829 weeklies - are located in small and rural communities. KARLO: And, you know, thats the role that we are trying to achieve in San Diego and with KPBS is really more in-depth discussions to help. The study. I have this feeling that with all this emphasis on local news and hyper-local news, that those bigger pieces maybe arent going to happen anymore. NELSON: Yeah, lets have Jeff address this because I know, I mean, your whole background has been in digital media and now youre running a corporation that has a tree-killing edition of a newspaper as well. Greg Dawson, what about local TV news? This makes it easy for such reporters to understand the basic news needs of that community with a view to writing to appeal to the target audience. Some of those mastheads, like the Leongatha Star, had been keeping their communities informed since the late 1800s. It was really easy. They usually allocate a sizable budget for the promotion and development of libraries and community centers. As a strategy, rural development is the approach or operational design to bring about the desired positive change in the socio . Their masthead, The Koondrook and Barham Bridge, had been serving the two Murray River towns since 1909. Jeff Light, lets begin with you since you represent the oldest form of news in this circle, the printed newspaper. That is why this country is called agricultural. In 2003, I had the pleasure of editing a country newspaper for two weeks while the publishers, Lindsay and Sue Harrington, took a long-overdue holiday. LIGHT: Yeah, I mean, I would say that right now print is very, very strong. So I think to ask the news media to predict problems in the future is pretty rough and, you know, but I think that, you know, as they were making the deals with unions, we were reporting on theyve cut a deal, theyre not going to get huge raises but they are getting better pensions. Im Dean Nelson sitting in for Maureen Cavanaugh.
PDF Rural Areas - Problems and Opportunities for Development The story starts out vague, it becomes specific.
PDF Place, Purpose, and Role in Rural Community Development Outreach None of this has made for pleasant reading, but now many of those rural communities find theres no local news to read at all. KARLO: and a web department, and I really brought them all together and said were going to be one content division and were going to focus on producing thoughtful news analysis, longer format stories of important issues that are affecting our community. The first is that size matters. Occasionally, well take a national story and put a local spin on it just like any of the media organizations in town will do but, yeah, local news, thats our focus. The importance of local newspapers. So we have to protect that and being five minutes behind or five hours behind, I dont believe, you know, is important enough to risk that mistake. Rural development is considered to be of noticeable importance in the country today than in the olden days in the process of the evolution of the nation. And that, in a nutshell, is the secret to the continued success of community newspapers. The rural people are in close contact with nature as most of their daily activities revolve around the natural environment. Weve been talking about how changing the changing media landscape is affecting the delivery of local news. It starts out mildly accurate to perfectly accurate. KARLO: Well, I dont have the number on the top of my head and maybe we can provide it for Barry offline but we have a, you know, a number that we make public that can get ahold of KPBS. And among the good ones, the ones who endure and even prosper, there is always to be found one common denominator - trust. This means that the rural journalists reporting for the newspaper are part of the community, the content of the newspaper primarily focuses on the community, then the community members also constitute a major target audience, whether they are living in the community or in the city.
Opioid Use Disorder: Challenges and Opportunities in Rural Communities Rural Development in India- meaning, importance, objectives - BYJUS BARRETT: Yeah, the Voiceofsandiego.org does spend a great deal of time on what we consider to be the best kind of investigative journalism. I think, you know, theres a lot of talk these days about transparency and I think it definitely applies to us as well. The learning curve was steep and lesson No.1 was that it was more than just media folk who contributed to The Bridge, and the publication offered its community more than just local news. So, you know, I think in the media you saw, well, I guess I would say in many businesses you saw in the recession the need for very quick adjustments. As long as we finish a dollar in the black at the end of the year, Im a happy boy. The newspaper is part of the community or is perceived so by people in that community. e. Homogeneity of Population: Okay. Dozens of other smaller, independent publishers have followed suit, their paper-thin profits decimated by the loss of advertising from local businesses that ceased doing business. Its quite disappointing that weve been locked up in such draconian fashion when weve had no COVID-19 cases here. But we leave the leave the national news or the statewide news or the international news to those sources that have the resources to do that, which were not going to spend the money or the time on it because we couldnt possibly do it well. If it werent for the difficulties of going through it, this is one of the most exciting times weve ever seen in this business. That, folks, is what makes the Deer Creek Pilot mighty, mighty important to those people who call that place home. LIGHT: Things were edited down to manipulate the news and spread propagandathe death panel conversation came up. For those two weeks, alongside the headline news, we published stories on the opening of a new boat ramp, a golden wedding anniversary, the reopening of an old pub, the relocation of the butcher's, Christmas preparations, a hay bale blaze and the senior citizens' debutante ball. BARRY: It was how do you get a point across to the news media when local government has failed in their duty? Thats just part of the process. Thank you. If youd like to comment about this or any topic weve discussed today, go to KPBS.org/thesedays. It happens throughout all of the media here. The old office of The Koondrook and Barham Bridge newspaper, also known simply as The Bridge, in Murray Street, Barham. And this question about local news, I think, is really important. But weve come through that.
Perspective: The Importance of Healthy Rural Hospitals Harsh Pati Singhania, managing director , JK Paper, said India has arrived. The nonprofit model is I mean its trying to get some legs here as far as providing news and information. As I said at the beginning of the program, voiceofsandiego.org, on a nonprofit model, has shown year over year increases in the amount of revenue thats come in.
Why Local News Matters, and What We Can Do to Save It They receive your newspaper, advertise in your newspaper, sometimes even when they dont have to, based on a simple precept: They trust you to do your very best to find the truth and to tell it to them.