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Journalism education
Meet Georgia, one of 42 unique professionals stepping up for their hometown
Dec 2, 2021
The Pelham Examiner is one of a dwindling number of small community newspapers, more than 2,100 of which have disappeared since 2004. But there’s another way this New York publication and its 42 ...
Panel discusses recruiting young journalists who believe they can make a difference
Dec 1, 2021
This the first of a two-part final installment of Pub Aux’s dialogue with prominent members of the journalism academic community where they address the career aspirations of the young journalists ...
NeSmith, Georgia publisher turns dying weekly into nonprofit to be maintained editorially by the University of Georgia
Nov 1, 2021
Two strategies that have been touted as ways to preserve community newspapers — the nonprofit model and university involvement – are combining to save a weekly newspaper in northeast Georgia. ...
Words of advice for journalists
Nov 1, 2021
The experience you get in a small-town, community newspaper setting has staying power.
How much time should you invest in training recent-graduate new-hires?
Oct 1, 2021
In the July installment, Pub Aux explored the atmosphere around journalism schools — the support, acceptance and academic environments for the schools. In August, we asked academic professionals ...
How much of a challenge is it to create news-literate students who can analyze the sources of the news they consume?
Aug 1, 2021
In this issue, Pub Aux asked academic professionals about their students and instruction: how they create news-literate students and whether community newspaper publishers should expect to do more basic ...
Journalism education is essential: Intern rises to prize-earning editor
Jul 1, 2021
Yet the real story might be this: from intern to full-time reporter to sports editor to the newspaper’s top position, editor, he has worked and earned every step in a small community that eagerly ...
Owned by a journalism professor, Marion County Record adheres to traditional publishing
Jul 1, 2021
Meyer, 67, who splits his time teaching journalism at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with his duties as publisher of the Marion (Kansas) County Record, moved his classes online and returned ...
What does the future hold for journalism school?
Jul 1, 2021
Pub Aux wanted to know how academic professionals see the future of their programs and how their programs relate to community newspapers. We assembled a panel of experts from journalism programs around ...
