Geoff McGhee
In the United States, some 7,500 community newspapers – papers with under 30,000 in circulation – still hit the streets, front porches, and mailboxes at least once a week.
Rural journalism is surviving, even thriving, in the rural West and across the United States, in an era of precipitous decline for major metropolitan newspapers.
A 2010 survey conducted by the University of Missouri, Columbia for the National Newspaper Association produced some enviable statistics:…