Big Projects for Small Papers.

The article focuses on Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. of Birmingham, Alabama and its program that aims to generate a series of stories for its 90-plus daily newspapers. Bill Ketter, vice president of news, oversees the Elite Reporting Fellowship program. The first package to emerge from the program was "Hooked on Gambling," a three-part series in April 2006 on the problems of gambling addicts and the meager resources available to help them. Since then, the program has produced five more series, including "America's Interstate," which dealt with the Interstate Highway System's crumbling infrastructure, and "Playing Hurt," which looked at the dangers to which untrained coaches expose young athletes.