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What is Rural Journalism? Occupational Precarity and Social Cohesion in US Rural Journalism Epistemology

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Given the recent focus on news poverty and gaps in local journalism, rural journalists would seem to have a challenging job. This study seeks to understand the novel experiences and challenges of journalists who cover rural communities and how they conceptualize their knowledge-building practices. Through the lens of journalistic epistemology, researchers conducted a two-step, in-depth interview procedure with rural U.S. journalists (n =61) to better explore how rural journalists place their knowledge-making in relation to non-rural journalists. Rural journalists identified as being rural in that they practiced in rural communities, but also thought of their knowledge-building as tied intimately to their rural communities.

Source: Journalism Studies

DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2024.2314206

Authors: Mildred F. Perreault, Jessica Walsh, Gregory Perreault, Louisa Lincoln, Ruth Moon

Institutions: University of South Florida, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, University of Pennsylvania, Louisiana State University

Language: English

Topic: Media Studies and Communication

Subfield: Communication

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

OpenAlex ID: W4391651694

FWCI: 13.59

Cites: 73

Cited by: 16

Related to: 10