Researching rural journalism

I'm always researching story ideas and journalism in general. I came across a website that has some great information on it. The Institute for Rural Journalism & Community Issues touches on a lot more than just rural issues. Just look around the site a bit and you'll find some great resources no matter what size the community or what size the newspaper serving it. From investigative and writing tools to online news sources, there's some great information you won't want to miss.

And, if you're looking for a wide variety of information on newspapers in the United States, try newspapers.com. While it doesn't list all newspapers across America, it does list a lot of them.  Are you interested in small weekly newspapers, which really have found a niche in recent years because of their ability to focus on one community, I can across the great article by Lynn Lofton and printed in The Mississippi Business Journal. Entitled Weekly newspapers still thriving and serving communities