By Al Cross Editorials are falling from favor at many American newspapers, for various reasons, including a desire […]
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By Al Cross In the last six years, interest in local news has declined, for several reasons. Community […]
By Al Cross – Into the Issues President Biden had some important words for rural journalists and their […]
By Al Cross Director and professor, Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky The insurrection […]
By Al Cross What is the proper role of community newspapers at a time of national crisis? Stand […]
Since fall 2018, 300 more U.S. newspapers have disappeared, bringing the number over the last 15 years to 2,100. […]
By Al Cross Our country may not be in a depression, but the newspaper business is, and its […]
By Al Cross In explaining my work, I sometimes say that there are thousands of really good journalists […]
By Al Cross When Jim Phillips of Lexington, Ky., started poring through microfilm copies of old newspapers to […]