NELSON: Advertising sales dollars up? Through circulation the interest of readers in the newspaper is raised. With specific reference to rural development programmes, the rural community newspaper plays essential role in increasing the awareness of rural dwellers and convincing them to adopt recommended ideas, technologies, practices and strategies. And that, in a nutshell, is the secret to the continued success of community newspapers. So I. You really hammered on that. But theres probably more there than I would venture most people are reading every day. We look for the San Diego angle, of course, so youre getting a little more than that. NELSON: Greg Dawson, news director for NBC 7/39. And were taking your calls at 1-888-895-5727. Were not the engineers who are dreaming up those next gadgets. Local newsletters are so important that the State Library of WA collects each one published from around the state to store in its archive. 1 Moreover, rural areas are crucial. Mike Dobbie, communications manager for the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance union, said: We estimate that the Australian media is on track to lose 1000 editorial jobs this year alone.. Team Records and Series Notes. As a strategy, rural development is the approach or operational design to bring about the desired positive change in the socio . BARRETT: Oh, yeah, Im part of the cabal, is it? 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. I think people want choices. Approximately one-fifth of Americans live in rural areas, and 10 percent of the country's gross domestic product is generated in nonmetropolitan counties. We make a point of presenting the U-T stories when theyre great, our competition around the state and even national stories if they matter. So how do you address the digital thing? Locals find a piece of themselves in the country newspaper - and will lose it if the paper folds. You know, were not going to defray our attention by focusing too much on other medium other media or other ways of delivering the content. LIGHT: Yeah, no, I dont buy into any of that. DAWSON: And then the economy hit at the same time. My qualification was that, among the freelance articles Id written for city newspapers and national magazines, one was about the rural press. The Reverend Geoff Leslie used anything from speeding fines to distressed livestock as metaphors for Gods message in his weekly column. Rural people used to be suspicious of intelligentality and book learning. Tom Karlo, you want to talk about the dumbing down of our society if, in fact, thats the case? Grant Barrett from Voice of San Diego, youre part of that whole scheme. There is impetus for us to reaffirm the importance of rural community to our interconnected society. Monthly Media Reports on Suicide Incidents in Nigeria February 2023, Forest Officer Shares Video Of Two Reptiles Fighting While Standing Up, Florida student knocks out teacher then pummels her unconscious body after she seized his Nintendo Switch during class (video), Types of Circulation for Community Newspapers, Importance of Circulation in Community Newspaper Publishing. Our work in agriculture finance helps clients provide market-based financial services, and fund long-term and green investments to support sustainable agriculture and agri-food value chains. UK ended in third place in the Southeastern Conference with a 12-6 record. I think the demise of print journalism, and I see it as that, we are subscribers to the U-T and weve noticed the difference in the size of the papers. 00:00. The number of pages in your average American newspaper is much smaller and thats a reflection of the change in some of the business model underpinnings. And youre right, theres been a lot of change sort of even preceding the sale of the paper to Platinum and the new management team thats been brought in has been pretty focused on moving the business forward so, yeah, weve got a lot going on. KARLO: Well, you know, for us, I dont have to worry about, KARLO: Yeah. And it is neither flippant nor hyperbolic when I say that little country weekly newspaper is the only news organization on the planet Earth that gives the first tinkers damn about Sharkey and Issaquena counties, Mississippi. Every facet and feature of marketing demands a refashion when the focus is shifted to rural marketing. LIGHT: Quickly trying to figure out in the heat of battle what to do. "Looking at rural communities, you really get a sense of where the country's going to be 10 to 20 years from now." A top-line problem among rural areas is keeping hospitals open. The condition of roads, bridges and other infrastructure is a major problem for 36% of urban, 27% of suburban and . I mean, she is not alone. "Anybody can audition for a show. Sure. It happens throughout all of the media here. I think at that point people really were scrambling. 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 . STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Communication is a multi-faceted aspect of community life. Is this a fact or is this an opinion? NELSON: I mean, whats the matter with just getting it the old way? The study. Producers, distributors, processors and retailers all play a role in the food system to get agricultural products from farm to table in both domestic and international markets. I think. Readership up? Arkansas is 19-12 overall, 8-10 in . The answers are generally favorable, with improved employment conditions, earnings, and incomes; lower poverty rates; and healthier and better educated populations. We have Union-Tribunes reporters posting things online without going through editing. You know, they. NELSON: Jeff Light from the Union-Tribune. Fortunately, we have a veteran staff, people who do ask those questions and stop and think before publishing, you know, hopefully, and not that we dont all have our mistakes in the past. Given equal resources, women could contribute much more. According to a. We may not follow breaking news when its happening. On the surface, most people do not feel that their local newspaper is a key source that they rely on for local information. In western literature, rural area is regarded as a distinct territorial community with villages and small And we all stop and say, wait, lets make sure this is answered first because, you know, what will continue to separate us from the bloggers and everybody else is our credibility. In a small town the local newspaper is not like the local hardware store. Those things are all different. And I do feel that our role is to serve the community, to serve San Diego. Having a local news organization brings interests in the community together to create a personal impact . KARLO: and there are certain people that might want to pick up a paper. Im joined in studio by Jeff Light, editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune, Greg Dawson, news director for NBC 7/39, Grant Barrett, engagement editor for voiceofsandiego.org, and Tom Karlo, general manager for KPBS. "Much of our community life revolves around the local school. And its those things that are kind of, you know, for us breaking news, spot news, you know, thats bread and butter, DAWSON: of what we do. These losses will also affect many more people for whom the local paper meant so much. JEFF (Caller, La Mesa): Hi. NELSON: Lets take another caller. NELSON: based on foundations and philanthropists? How do you see this all coming together for local news? The local newspaper gives enduring evidence of their efforts. Go ahead, Tom Karlo. KARLO: And the fact of the matter is, is people want the choices. Thank you. Even at present 80 percent of the population in India is rural. Newspaper is the most important part of our lives. So weve really got to be careful about that. Most of our food products come from the country crops, fish, poultry, you name it and chances are it originated . KARLO: instantly contact us in our newsroom. NELSON: Yeah, theres a chance to reinvent for everybody, isnt there? Im joined in studio by Jeff Light, editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune, Greg Dawson, news director of NBC 7/39, Grant Barrett, engagement editor for Voice of San Diego, and Tom Karlo, general manager for KPBS. You know, those are the things that are very powerful in peoples minds and its really the job of everybody who traffics in honest information to help people look at the facts rather than these emotional issues, you know, that they want to believe which often, as in this case, are untrue and damaging. 2. Concern over racism is roughly comparable in urban and rural communities - 21% of urban residents and 17% of rural residents say this is a major problem. Its not the particular thing that happened, its the way it was handled and the way its been handled for quite some time. I mean, thats how they got into it. The primary task is to . The creation of new bridge crossings could connect the world's rural and underserved communities in developing countries with services they need. 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. We I assume the same is happening at all of your places and then we have citizens writing back in and calling us on it and saying, hey, you got this wrong. And among the good ones, the ones who endure and even prosper, there is always to be found one common denominator trust. Donate to Giving Compass to help us guide donors toward practices that advance equity. 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. India is a country of about one billion people where more than 70% of the humankind inhabits in rural areas. Local newspapers can strengthen communities. So there is some importance to what the outlet is. It is a newspaper that primarily focuses on the coverage of issues, events and developments in a specific rural community. There. Still, many of us don't think so for a number of excuses such as: lack of motivation, feeling fatigue, not making out enough time or not at all . Its been tried and its almost always a big failure. Its just not going to happen. So, you know, you see these companies sort of restaffing themselves, re-engineering how they approach things, rewiring their culture to be leaner, more creative, more public facing, more engaged. The deadline was 4pm, for at 4.01 a queue of mostly elderly residents would be at the front office waiting for their weekly news fix. BARRY (Caller, Mission Beach): Yes, you pretty well phrased it right there. NELSON: Grant Barrett, engagement editor for the Voice of San Diego and a familiar voice to San Diegans as co-host of Public Radios A Way with Words. NELSON: Well, in fact, go ahead. And what is the source thats giving me this information? 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. DAWSON: but theyre made, I think, in an honest way and not just in a rush. But, you know what, our product is going to stay the same but the distribution part of our organization is going to change. And I think what its forced all of us to do is refocus and reprioritize what we do. The rural social system was marked with minimum of social differentiation and social stratification. In a small town, readers expect their newspaper to separate the wheat from the chaff and then to tell it like it is.. I do. NELSON: Jeff Light from the Union-Tribune, stories are getting shorter at your newspaper. The 116-year-old bridge that unites Koondrook and Barham now divides the towns because of border restrictions which, Polkinghorne says, have been disastrous for our region. Youre on These Days. Just to give you an example, like back, you know, last this last year, in the healthcare debate. Jeff Light from the Union-Tribune, with all of the cutbacks in your shop in particulareverybody has done it obviously but yours seems to be the at the Union-Tribune, the largest. Im Dean Nelson sitting in for Maureen Cavanaugh. Towns without newspapers still have young people competing in a full array of sports and extracurricular activities. 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. Tom Karlo. "On a household level, the effect of a bridge is considerable. The rural people are in close contact with nature as most of their daily activities revolve around the natural environment. Its quite disappointing that weve been locked up in such draconian fashion when weve had no COVID-19 cases here. Rural hospitals increase local access and allow patients to focus on "getting better" rather than "getting to appointments." Personalized Care Through connectivity and collaboration rural hospitals are large enough to serve our community's health needs, but we are also small enough to care. DAWSON: We certainly come through, you know, a really challenging couple of years and I think all of us in the media felt it and kind of a double whammy. So where is that line? KARLO: And looking at investigating these types of stories. 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. If it covers wider topics, community journalism concentrates on the effect they have on local readers. If youd like to comment about this or any topic weve discussed today, go to KPBS.org/thesedays. We are looking at the records. And, KARLO: you put commercials on and it has to have a return on investment. And I think, you know, were getting better as a journalism, you know, institution than we were before when we were running every which direction. NELSON: Really? Become a newsletter subscriber to stay up-to-date on the latest Giving Compass news. And I dont think that KPBS does it any differently, the Voice or the U-T or NBC, that we do strive for perfection. KARLO: ..the populous make, you know, informed and educated decisions. This was home to the paper from 1919 to 2004. What is Circulation in Newspaper Publishing? And there are some very tangible, observable reasons for that, not the least of which might be the notion I share that the smaller the community, the more important its newspaper. LIGHT: So I think right now were at a point of rethinking those things and trying to put together organizations that will meet the public demand and the public responsibility that we have. 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. Importance of Circulation in Community Newspaper Publishing Whether it is rural, national or global newspaper business, circulation plays very crucial role in determining the success of any publication. But very often it comes up where somebodys ready to push the button to send it to the web or to send out a Tweet or whatever it might be but theres a question. Kentucky completed the regular season 21-10 overall. And its important, and we want to be accurate, we want to be impartial, we want to be fair, and we want to present people with good information. A slightly smaller share (13%) say this is a major problem in the suburbs. The newspaper is part of the community or is perceived so by people in that community. We have In our newsroom, were very cognizant of it. We call that financial promiscuity, which is make sure that you dont get all of your money from one source. You know, the fabric of the community is directly affected and improved by the amount of local news there is, you know. Toggle navigation. It matters to her grandmother and all her friends and family, and they read this paper.. Right. I want to open this up to everyone. NELSON: Lets stop here. Overview. Principles of Journalism: . Businesses in small communities know that every reader of a local paper is a potential. "Every city with a school has youngsters eager to excel and to be encouraged. Most rural schools and the communities that they serve are not broken. I mean, weve seen all these things and each one of these things have allowed people to nothings really exited, its just that a matter of fact that it helps to people want choices. KARLO: Well, you know, just to start off on that conversation, thats something that Im very concerned as we see this explosion of media and people able to create their own blogs, their own news sites, and these are news things that dont have the checks and balances. Are we ever going to see newspapers again? Those may include safe access to schools, healthcare and new employment opportunities. There are two main reasons for the resilience of small-town newspapers. Youre listening to These Days in San Diego. In this article we have elaborated the reasons as to how the rural standards have gone up from what they were and the demand for the consumer goods. NELSON: Okay, thank you, Barry, for your call. So investigative reporting is something that is on our radar screen and we hope that we dont miss, in the future, those kinds of stories because I think theyre important. In TV, we had the digital conversion where, you know, all of the signals went digital, which put far more people into digital cable that had more choices, which youre going to take advantage of. And that has been the role and I think weve always encouraged people, no one source should be your only source for news and information. 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. You are consuming a media in the right way. 1 In 2015, they surpassed the death rate in urban areas. That is why the online version of a rural community newspaper is also crucial to the success of the publication. And so people get the impression that a lot of this stuff thats getting thrown out there is true and nobody calls them. And the work that each of our content producers develops, will be able to be distributed to the way people are using media. So weve got a lot of change coming up, already in the pipeline, and, you know, were working hard. KARLO: And, you know what, it redefined itself. KARLO: And there is a number and there is a web address to. So that way, all the work our people are producing is going to be on all of the different platforms, reaching what I would say is the traditionalists or the mature audience, KARLO: on television, the baby boomers on radio, and my children on the digital cell phones. The paper is shrinking. Rural hospitals have been and always will be a critical part of the nation's health care delivery system. 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. These closures have cost the livelihoods of journalists, photographers and designers. The responsibility that we have, I mean, weve reorganized our newsroom to commit seven people to, in one way or another, working on investigative stories, so its something that, you know, we take very seriously and we need to build that capability which I think was damaged by cutbacks over time. There was no such thing as a death panel. For more than 20 years now, I have put out a little country weekly thats been published continuously for 138 years in what most folks might consider Backwater, U.S.A., the two poorest counties in the poorest state in the union with a combined population of less than 6,500 men, women and children. Theres a fishbowl effect in small towns, and its newspaper is hence, often its lightning rod. KARLO: but I also put it in perspective. You know, I dont really know what that horizon is. The story starts out vague, it becomes specific. The year began with . This is what makes a good country newspaper successful: that as well as informing people of the major decisions and events taking place in their town, it also includes the local populace in its pages, which in turn makes them feel significant. And so its something that the U-T does and can do and probably will continue to do but we are focusing so precisely that we can do a lot more in our areas. And its the stuff in the middle that weve kind of started weeding out, that those little stories that it happened today but is it all that big a deal? 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. 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. And, you know, when youre on the air and youre doing a live interview, as somebody who does a radio show, I can tell you this, you misspeak. BARBARA: Many of them do not read on a The average American, I believe, the NEA found, the average American today reads on a fourth grade level, if that high, and cannot, does not have the ability to interpret, to compare, to question even. 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. Make sure attribution is there and so that its clear. You make mistakes and sometimes its hard to keep up. KARLO: Yeah, and what we were is, we had a TV department, a radio department. News / Feb 13, 2023 / 06:53 PM CST. LIGHT: That has to do with the strength of our communities, the strength of America, right? Local newspapers are great resources for residents who want to become more active in their communities and learn more about community events.. Our year-on-year growth is up for every metric that you might possibly look at, user involvement, readership, donations from foundations, donations from individuals, commenting, following us on the social media. This was home to the paper from 1919 to 2004.Credit:Ian Kenins. With people able to get their news anytime, anywhere, how important is it for you to focus on delivering local news? Hi, Greg. Rory Devine is now almost exclusively doing education, which she was always kind of doing education but. Weve been talking about how changing the changing media landscape is affecting the delivery of local news. "I think it is an amazing creative outlet for so many people because it's community-oriented," Lang told the Outpost. If somebody sees something and they want to contact the Union-Tribune, how do they do it? Importance of Rural Development Rural development is important not only for the majority of the population residing in rural areas, but also for the overall economic expansion of the nation. BARRETT: Well, youve got a couple of points there. 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. 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. LIGHT: Yeah, every, you know, I think the most important thing to start would be, yeah, revenues are increasing and were doing well and exceeding our budget so, you know, I feel like the U-Ts a prosperous business and, you know, that had not been the case just a few years ago. That, folks, is what makes the Deer Creek Pilot mighty, mighty important to those people who call that place home. In fact, the rural roads are often considered to be the lifeline for rural communities. As we went into, you know, the difficult times of the last couple of years, DAWSON: I probably, you know, echoed that sentiment of, DAWSON: uh-oh, this is going to be bad for America, you know, DAWSON: fewer investigative reports, etcetera. "Anybody can audition for a show. Because newspapers are so important to communities, Omdahl proposed several months ago that city treasuries pitch in some funding. Locals find a piece of themselves in the country newspaper - and will lose it if the paper folds.Credit:Ian Kenins. BARRETT: Well, the old Its not really about the medium so much as its about the content. NELSON: Were going to take a break. We need to take a short break and when we return, well continue talking about how the delivery of news is changing and what it means to San Diego. And weve refocused around some of the beats that Grant was talking about. KARLO: Yeah. 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. The pages roll off an 1894 Miehle printing press at The Bridge's office in 2003.Credit:Ian Kenins. It could be weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Now putting it in perspective, you know, probably not well enough but thats not, you know, necessarily our expertise either in predicting what thats going to do down the road. But what has the new ownership of the San Diego Union done about on the subject of investigative reporting about nobody caught the mess that put us that what was going on that put us in the financial mess that were in now. KARLO: Well, I believe that we have lost a little bit of what I call thoughtful news analysis, KARLO: in depth discussions of important issues, and I think news has gotten a little more breaking news and faster sound bites, faster quicker stories, smaller stories. A survey named called the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER . ERS examined some key questions about the socioeconomic effects of rural recreation development. The pages roll off an 1894 Miehle printing press at The Bridge's office in 2003. So for us, too, you know, the model in terms of commercial media and I think more of television and radio, is that you produce a program to make money. Jeff in La Mesa, thank you for calling. This is the reason why a ruralite is more influenced by nature than an urbanite. A Pew Research study found that as of 2016, about 25 percent of Americans express high levels of trust in news they get from local news organizations, while about 15 percent trust information. BARBARA: Too many of them cant discuss it intelligently so weve dumbed down our whole society. But, I mean, I do. LIGHT: Well, I would say we very much see newspapers now. 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. I think, you know, theres a lot of talk these days about transparency and I think it definitely applies to us as well. And I think it has forced us to take a look at what we do, refocus ourselves, you know, and come up with a better plan for the future in really an exciting way. But certainly, who everybody missed that story. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. Greg Dawson from NBC 7/39. And youre listening to These Days on KPBS. The poverty rate within rural communities is higher than the national average16.5 percent of rural community members live below the poverty line, compared to 14.8 percent nationally. The importance of organizing diverse local residents to help shape local development cannot be overstated. Literature Review On Rural Development. 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. TOM KARLO (General Manager, KPBS): Hello there, Dean. So people do have a high expectation that we will writ these things out and prevent bad from happening, and its a big responsibility. Joining me to talk about how these changes are affecting local media organizations and the news theyre providing to the public are Jeff Light, editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune. LIGHT: is a big story across America and the Minneapolis StarTribune won the Pulitzer on pension coverage two I guess two years ago, so its not impossible to catch. My contention is, is that there are a section of local government that is pretty much a shadow government and with very little oversight and I dont know who to go to. NELSON: Thats one of the problems with online. 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. Ive heard all the talk, but I dont believe it until I read in the paper, she told me. How can funders help sustain community-based and local journalism. The local media is an important part of journalism as it connects people in the community. I sit next to him and I gotta tell you, the mans a hes amazing. those engaged in rural community development outreach. And I think thats our role at KPBS. Williams OutBack Magazine. A country practice: why newspapers are so important outside the cities. DAWSON: And to me thats tremendously exciting for all of us because it will shape how we deliver things.
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