GRANT BARRETT (Engagement Editor, Voice of San Diego): Howdy. Arkansas is 19-12 overall, 8-10 in . Those things are all different. NELSON: Listeners, wed also like to invite you in on this conversation. Im Dean Nelson sitting in for Maureen Cavanaugh. 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. This could reduce the number of undernourished people in those countries by as much as 17 per cent . 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. 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. DAWSON: Absolutely. 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. It could be weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Eventually, this medium will fade away. NELSON: Lets stop here. Members of the targeted community across the world can always browse to read the online edition to keep abreast of what happens in their village. Tom Karlo from KPBS, how do they get in touch with you? BARRETT: Its fantastic. Well, no, because the stock market was going great and everybody could point to numbers saying its not going to be a problem. Roughly half of the remaining 7,112 in the country - 1,283 dailies and 5,829 weeklies - are located in small and rural communities. But we do read papers. Become a newsletter subscriber to stay up-to-date on the latest Giving Compass news. Wage theft is commonplace in San Diego. Rural community newspaper is a regular publication for a community. NELSON: And, finally, Tom Karlo, general manager for KPBS. But, you know what, our product is going to stay the same but the distribution part of our organization is going to change. If we draw that line out into the future, clearly print is a medium whose time will end, right? "Anybody can audition for a show. After all, the media exists to serve you, the public. Greg Dawson from NBC 7/39. NELSON: Let me close with a final question. Could more local solutions work. Theres a lot of factors involved. And, you know what, I just want to reiterate that to our staff all the time that we have to do this, and this is one of the checks and balances. It is almost impossible to do a live television or radio show and do instant fact checking. Welcome back, Jeff. If youd like to comment about this or any topic weve discussed today, go to KPBS.org/thesedays. JEFF: I I read the bill. To me, being first is much less important than being correct, so Im much more focused on having things be accurate. Country Australians are renowned for their resilience, but 2020 has so far tested even the most stoic. I have been in this crazy business for some 38 years now, at both the daily and weekly levels, and been blessed to receive a few accolades along the way, but the greatest single compliment I have ever received came from a salt-of-the-earth little lady who stopped by the office to pick up a hot off the press edition featuring the issue du jour in my little town. As Stephen Colbert would say, were winning the war against liberal journalism because the actual size of the paper is shrinking. Tell us where youre getting your news information and how well the local media are doing. LIGHT: Things were edited down to manipulate the news and spread propagandathe death panel conversation came up. BARBARA (Caller, Vista): Yes, hi there. BARRETT: Thats right. Sincerity, truthfulness and accuracy: Good faith of the readers can be obtained through sincerity, truthfulness and accuracy which is the foundation of journalism. We have somebody on military now full time. Just to give you an example, like back, you know, last this last year, in the healthcare debate. Im like, look, the default human state is error. And one of the things that Im concerned about is that there is these bloggings that are out there and these sites and these news sources that are not checking their facts, theyre not checking what theyre saying, theyre biased in their own way. KARLO: Well, I think local news is what were supposed to be reporting on, too. The villagers consider land as their real mother as they depend on it for their food, clothing and shelter. 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. It doesnt say death panel at all. DAWSON: now thats her full time beat. How does the nonprofit work and is that really the way of the future? LIGHT: Yeah, I mean, all of our writers have their e-mails right at the bottom of the stories. 1 Moreover, rural areas are crucial. Credit:Ian Kenins. CNI Newspapers, Webb is now publisher/editor at Smoky Mountain Times. Were doing that kind of stuff. 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. Grant Barrett, Voice of San Diego. The positivity rate for more than 200 districts is already up by 5%. 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. On a community level, it is enormous." The paper is shrinking. DAWSON: You know, and that I think thats what were spending our time on right now. A 501(c)(3) organization. They usually allocate a sizable budget for the promotion and development of libraries and community centers. For these contributors, the act of writing gave them a sense of duty, of adding to the local conversation. You need to get things out in a timely way when they mean something to people but I felt this Shirley Sherrod case of a few weeks ago really showed those two problems coming together into one, you know, terrible debacle in other, NELSON: And this was looking at one piece of a speech and just not seeing it in context and. Newspaper is the most important part of our lives. They had the page up and so you go to the you pulled it up online, read the page, and theres It was talking about end-of-life counseling and it was talking about how when people are, you know, towards the end of their life, how theyll provide a counselor for the rest of the family. Approximately 53% of the countries' population lives in the countryside. KARLO: that Hugh is talking about. The nonprofit model is I mean its trying to get some legs here as far as providing news and information. The open records laws are something that are hard won and often fought for and sometimes there are regressions but for the most part, they do the job that they need to do. DEAN NELSON (Guest Host): I'm Dean Nelson, director of the journalism program at Point Loma Nazarene University, and I'm sitting in for Maureen Cavanaugh during this hour of These Days on KPBS. What's the role for local media in the 24/7 digital age? This was home to the paper from 1919 to 2004. Donate to Giving Compass to help us guide donors toward practices that advance equity. What is Circulation in Newspaper Publishing? There are tons of people, thousands, shall we say even a million in the county, who care as much as she does. Weve been talking about how changing the changing media landscape is affecting the delivery of local news. The Reverend Geoff Leslie used anything from speeding fines to distressed livestock as metaphors for Gods message in his weekly column. But weve come through that. Hugh from Mission Hills, go ahead. Are we ever going to see newspapers again? 2.0 Literature Review 2.1 Defining development, rural development, its aims and sustainability Conceptual Clarifications Development Development in its current conception include; Democracy, human rights, free market economy, gender equality, population and environmental control, crises, etc (World Bank . Can we expect to ever see major investigative pieces like the Duke Cunningham scandal or the Tailhook scandal or something like that? Sure. 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. NELSON: Were going to talk about those changes in just a minute but let me hear from some of the others. Good, and I want to hear from the rest of you on this local news thing but first I want to take a caller, Iad (sp) calling from San Diego. There are two main reasons for the resilience of small-town newspapers. NBC is a for profit station, the Union-Tribune is a for profit news organization. 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. 3. NELSON: Jeff Light, same question for you. Rediscovering the Importance of Rural Communities. NELSON: Thank you. Rural schools and communities have a number of strengths that outsiders typically overlook, including a very strong sense of community and lots of opportunity for teachers and other educators looking to make a difference. So weve really got to be careful about that. Perceptions of the importance of local newspapers The survey indicated that newspapers play a far more complex role in the civic life of communities than many Americans believe. 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. So I do go on the web just to read it, thats about the only time Im ever on the compute, quite frankly. 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. I try to read get the New York Times to subscribe to it but, no, we cant get it delivered to our house and its too expensive to buy it daily at the newsstand. We are one of the last owned and operated radio and television stations, locally owned and operated, KARLO: and our role is to serve the local community and to also provide people with the stuff that comes from NPR and PBS. BARRETT: Oh, yeah, Im part of the cabal, is it? It starts out mildly accurate to perfectly accurate. 3 Helping to drive this trend . How is your organization doing these days? We are born in error, we die in error. Readership up? Jeff in La Mesa, thank you for calling. Literature Review On Rural Development. Where we used to be able to run around and get all that, we cant anymore. DAWSON: And to me thats tremendously exciting for all of us because it will shape how we deliver things. 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. 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. In our digital, 24/7 world, people can get their news and information in an instant. 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. Im Dean Nelson and youre listening to These Days in San Diego. Its been tried and its almost always a big failure. This is the reason why a ruralite is more influenced by nature than an urbanite. In the absence of community newspaper like the "community concord" purely devoted to the coverage of rural activities, this research work is tasked to ascertain whether the amount and quality or rural news carried by urban mass media especially newspapers are sufficient and capable enough to bring the much desirable development in the rural . NELSON: information is that its sort of tribalizes the groups. Approximately one-fifth of Americans live in rural areas, and 10 percent of the country's gross domestic product is generated in nonmetropolitan counties. 00:00. 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. And I dont think that KPBS does it any differently, the Voice or the U-T or NBC, that we do strive for perfection. So, you know, its an important part of us getting the information and making the editorial decisions that we do. Even at present 80 percent of the population in India is rural. NELSON: Im Dean Nelson sitting in for Maureen Cavanaugh. The old office of The Koondrook and Barham Bridge newspaper, also known simply as The Bridge, in Murray Street, Barham. 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. Tom Karlo, KPBS has the advantage of being a TV, radio and web media service. DAWSON: That I think were all on the same page. Because I was just thinking, if I were a corrupt politician, I would think these are the happiest days for me because nobodys going to be investigating me. 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. 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. NELSON: Okay, thank you, Barry, for your call. Contributions some of them in barely legible handwriting came from the mayor, the police sergeant, the progress association, members of parliament, teachers and schoolkids, sporting club secretaries and the town gossip, whose back page column was often the first read by nervous characters hoping their goofy mishaps of the past week didnt get reported. KARLO: And there is a number and there is a web address to. BARRETT: personal story as well as a statewide story, just fantastic stuff. It seems like in the need to get news out as quickly as possible one of the things that sometimes get sacrificed in that speed is accuracy. As a strategy, rural development is the approach or operational design to bring about the desired positive change in the socio . We may not follow breaking news when its happening. LIGHT: Yeah, I mean, I would say that right now print is very, very strong. 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. In a small town, every newspaper reader thinks he or she is a stockholder, because there exists a real relationship, an implied contract, if you will, between that paper and its readers. document.write(new Date().getFullYear()); So where is that line? 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. NELSON: I think it bothers all of us. More importantly, he or she is the one everybody else trusts to promote those things that are beneficial, and to try to stop that which is not. If somebody sees something and they want to contact the Union-Tribune, how do they do it? NELSON: And can you quantify that? In fact, Barry, if youre there, were going to take a call here from Mission Beach. Right. I just wanted to go back for a second to the conversation about speed and propaganda. Its hard to predict. Keep up with all the latest news, arts and culture, and TV highlights from KPBS. The importance of local newspapers. NELSON: Really? The year began with bushfires destroying the lives, and livelihoods, of tens of thousands of people. Nobody ever said that. The newspaper is part of the community or is perceived so by people in that community. DAWSON: Its funny. Dozens of jobs at regional radio and TV stations have been similarly affected. 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Abundant research in recent years has found that strong local journalism builds social cohesion, encourages political participation, and improves the efficiency and decision-making of local and state government.