1. What is Rural Journalism? Occupational Precarity and Social Cohesion in US Rural Journalism Epistemology.
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Perreault, Mildred F., Walsh, Jessica, Perreault, Gregory, Lincoln, Louisa, and Moon, Ruth
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SOCIAL cohesion , *PRECARITY , *JOURNALISM , *THEORY of knowledge , *RESEARCH personnel - Abstract
Given the recent focus on news poverty and gaps in local journalism, rural journalists would seem to have a challenging job. This study seeks to understand the novel experiences and challenges of journalists who cover rural communities and how they conceptualize their knowledge-building practices. Through the lens of journalistic epistemology, researchers conducted a two-step, in-depth interview procedure with rural US journalists (n = 61) to better explore how rural journalists place their knowledge-making in relationto non-rural journalists. Rural journalists identified as being rural in that they practiced in rural communities, but also thought of their knowledge-building as tied intimately to their rural communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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