Community and Democracy in a Rural Virginia News Mirage
<div class="ewa-rteLine" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: #ffffff;">This thesis project examines America’s local news crisis through the lens of one rural</div> <div class="ewa-rteLine" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: #ffffff;">community, Culpeper County, Virginia. With a population around 52,000, Culpeper oers a</div> <div class="ewa-rteLine" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: #ffffff;">critical window into a citizenry underserved by local journalism.</div> <div class="ewa-rteLine" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: #ffffff;">The project culminated in a digital article, rooted in interviews with Culpeper’s citizens,</div> <div class="ewa-rteLine" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: #ffffff;">threadbare local news sta, and government ocials. Paired with expert voices in journalism,</div> <div class="ewa-rteLine" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: #ffffff;">misinformation and local news economics, it serves as a case study in how a waning local news</div> <div class="ewa-rteLine" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: #ffffff;">presence is aecting one county.</div> <div class="ewa-rteLine" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: #ffffff;">The eects of local news’ decline have, of course, been well documented on a national level.</div> <div class="ewa-rteLine" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: #ffffff;">Less common are reporting projects anchored in the people and communities aected by it,</div> <div class="ewa-rteLine" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: #ffffff;">whether they consider it an active predicament or not.</div>
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- UNC Libraries
- Published
- 2025-02-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.17615/ypn9-pa35
- Primary Topic
- Media Studies and Communication
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00