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Route 7 is a community journalism project produced by the members of the Coolville, Ohio community in conjunction with the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism.

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• Hyperlocal Sports Sans Community Context? from Community Journalism
• Gannett recently announced its plans to expand its prep sports site, Highschoolsports.net, to provide "hyperlocal" coverage of 100 distinct schools. That coverage would then be "co-branded" with Gannett’s community newspapers serving those schools.
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• A Fifth are Offline from Community Journalism
• One in five U.S. adults do not use the Internet, according to a recently released survey report by the Pew Internet & American Life project.
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• Locating ’Local’ from Community Journalism
• AOL’s spreading local-news service, Patch.com, is not your father’s big-media community-journalism effort. By targeting suburbs and small towns without their own newspapers, and hiring local residents to produce content (some fresh grads of J-schools), Patch has the potential to be a major player in the community-journalism market.
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• What is ’community journalism’? from Community Journalism
• There’s a lot of buzz in both the industry and the academy these days about ’community journalism,’ and many pros and profs who are doing the talking think the concept is somehow new.
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• Too Little, Too Late from Community Journalism
• A recently reported scandal in the blue-collar L.A. suburb of Bell, California, shows how a lack of community journalism can result in obscene levels of corruption in local governments. The L.A. Times broke the story more than a decade after the city of Bell lost its strong community paper; the city government had only received token coverage for some time.
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• Small Papers, Big Courage from Community Journalism
• In late June, I attended the annual conference of the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors, which this year was held in and around Richmond, Ky., and Eastern Kentucky University. ISWNE is a small but active group of mostly independent weekly newspaper editors from the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia, and some other nations.
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• Not Insignificant from Community Journalism
• Several years ago, when the venerable Wall Street Journal was up for sale by Dow Jones and being aggressively pursued by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., we witnessed on a grand scale how the "community journalism" issue too often flies under the radar.
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• CJ and the Jena 6 from Community Journalism
• One reason community journalism tends to fly under the radar of media watchers (including many in journalism education) is because the work is intensely localized. A simple example can be found every election day - community media often report on the outcome of local races (county offices, town council, school boards) that would be of little interest to people not living in those localities. Rarely does a story published in a community medium get picked up by regional, national or international news media.
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• What’s the difference? from Community Journalism
• At first pale, there may seem to be little difference between community journalism and the so-called ’mainstream media’ journalism of big-city newspapers, global magazines, national broadcasting and cable media, and national/international Web sites. But there are many profound differences, and countless subtle differences. Here are but a few:
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