By Al Cross – Into the Issues President Biden had some important words for rural journalists and their […]
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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 […]
In a buyer’s market for weeklies, where are the buyers? By Al Cross Most days this summer, I […]
Rural communities have been disproportionately affected by the opioid epidemic, but rural newspapers have been disproportionately quiet about […]