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Based on extensive research into weekly rural publishers and rural readers, Reviving Rural News demonstrates that a new financial approach to community journalism is urgently needed and viable.
List of contents
Acknowledgements1. Introduction. Rural Journalism in Crisis
Patrick Ferrucci and Teri FinnemanThe History of How We Got HereThe Norms of JournalismAn International ProblemProject OverviewReferences2. The Uniqueness of Rural News
Patrick FerrucciDefining Rural NewsDisruption of Local NewsUnderstanding the Rural News WeeklyDisruptive InnovationThe Urgency of a New ModelReferences3. Publishers: Stuck in the Status Quo
Nick MathewsThe SurveyTradition vs. InnovationResources vs. GrowthPotential vs. PerceptionSummary Acknowledgement4. Readers: Seeking Change
Teri FinnemanFinding Rural ReadersReaders and Revenue StreamsReader Motivation for Financial SupportWho Supports Local News?SummaryReferences5. Press Club: Implementing Change
Teri Finneman and Nick MathewsWho is Harvey County Now?Getting Started: Forming the ExperimentThe Model: Press ClubAfter the LaunchThe Model: E-newslettersThe Model: EventsReflecting on the Experiment6. Rural Journalism and Disruption
Nick Mathews and Patrick FerrucciRural Journalism and DisruptionThe Final WordsReferencesIndex
About the author
Teri Finneman is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Kansas, USA. She is a journalism historian who also studies local news. She coedited
Social Justice, Activism and Diversity in U.S. Media History. She is the founder of the Journalism History podcast.
Nick Mathews is an assistant professor at the School of Journalism, University of Missouri, USA. He studies local and rural news and information ecosystems. He often seeks to represent the audience, translating their lived experiences for news organizations to help those news organization's stability and viability in their communities.
Patrick Ferrucci is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Journalism at the University of Colorado, USA. His research is in media sociology and primarily concerns itself with how shifting notions of "organization" in journalism lead to influence on journalism practice. He is the author of
Making Nonprofit News: Market Models, Influence and Journalism Practice, and coeditor of
The Institutions Changing Journalism: Barbarians Inside the Gates.
Summary
Based on extensive research into weekly rural publishers and rural readers, Reviving Rural News demonstrates that a new financial approach to community journalism is urgently needed and viable.
