For more information about the Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media, please contact: Gloria Freeland, director, huckboyd@ksu.edu Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media 105 Kedzie Hall, Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66506-1501 tel. 785-532-3958 or 785-532-0721- fax. 785-532-5484 Revisit the symposia of the past

Paper Presentations Symposium VII papers selected The Journalism Education Committee of the National Newspaper Association selected 12 papers to be featured as part of the seventh annual Newspapers & Community-Building Symposium during the National Newspaper Association's annual convention in Louisville, Ky. The emphasis is on research or experiences that were especially useful for small daily and weekly newspapers. The symposium is co-sponsored by the Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media and the National Newspaper Association Foundation.   Drunk drivers, death and democracy: essential community coverage Discovering community opinion on a budget Defining your changing readers Recruitment, retention and retreat Poster presentations   Drunk drivers, death and democracy Losing face and saving lives: picturing guilty drunk drivers in a weekly newspaper (Elizabeth Hansen, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY) Death in the community press (Marshall Rossow, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN) How to cover the legislature - without its really trying you (Charlyne Berens, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE) Back to the top Discovering community opinion on a budget Sampling community opinion on a shoestring (Gerald Stone, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL) Low-cost marketing techniques for community newspapers: What focus group research says (Sean McCleneghan, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM) Strategies in determining reader interest and their usefullness (Byung Lee, Elon College, Elon, NC) Back to the top Defining your changing readers Adjusting newspaper content and context when your rural town becomes a suburb or exurb (Dane Claussen, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO) Ring readers: Can newspapers in bedroom communities hold their own against major metros (Melinda Hawley, University of Georgia, Athens, GA) Marketing the news is black and brown communities (James Stephans, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS) Back to the top Recruitment, retention and retreat Putting ink in their blood: how a real-world project and in-classroom career counseling can persuade students to take a fresh look at community newspapers (Clyde Bentley, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR) The Thomson School: training and retaining reporters. Does it work? (Mike Cowling, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI) Audience influence on community-building content of community weekly newspapers (Kathleen L. Mason, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY) Back to the top Poster sessions Forsaking investigative journalism in a small town: Why one former crusading owner/editor of a community newspaper is content today to spotlight stories about chicken dinners and churches (But will he hold to that posture?) (Larry Timbs, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC) Tempting teens to read newspapers (Jeanni Atkins, University of Mississippi, University, MS) Public access to public notices: Should the Internet replace official journals? (Gene Murray, Grambling State University, Grambling, LA) Measuring "community-ness": Will the REAL community newspapers please stand up? (Jock Lauterer, Penn State, University Park, PA) Internet 101 for editors and publishers: What everyone needs to know about cyberlaws (Linda Owens, University of South Carolina, Aiken, SC) Back to the top   Page last modified November 2, 2000