Small-town newspapers rarely make headlines, but in Pawnee County, Nebraska, the fate of one is stirring a community into action. Five years after retiring, Ron and Bev Puhalla returned to rescue the Pawnee Republican from closure. Now, with time catching up and[...]
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On This Day | Trying Out a New Column
The Ward County Independent offers its readers a new column entitled The Road We Travel. To carry on such an effort, the services of an analyst have been secured. Letters from our readers will [...]Read More... from On This Day | Trying[...]
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On This Day | Before Blast Mode
I trust you will take this in the spirit I have meant it. It is to advice not criticize. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Before Blast Mode
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On This Day | The Enormous Responsibility
But,’ he said, ‘the discrepancies and contradictions are news, news to which the public is entitled. And insofar as we reporters don’t call attention to them, we are falling down on our job. Objectivity [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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On This Day | The Difference Between Local News and Social Media
The law is a good law. It is good for the newspaper and protects them from scandal mongers. It is always well for readers to keep this in mind and to understand that a [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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‘Truth or Fake’ refreshing development in news
Nebraska’s news junkies and even casual information consumers have full plates: the potential resignations of a University of Nebraska regent and a state legislator; a federal immigration detention camp that materialized on an apparent need-to-know basis in an infinitesimally narrow reading of[...]
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Inside the quiet takeover of local journalism by AI
AI may still feel like a novelty in some corners of media, but in local newsrooms it’s quickly becoming part of the daily workflow. A new analysis shows that nearly 1 in 10 newspaper articles nationwide now contain some AI-generated text —[...]
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On This Day | Mi-Not-Hi and Other Scholarly News
No. 1 of the Mi-Not-Hi, the high school paper of the local high school being published this year will make its appearance in the city Tuesday, it is announced by Solveig Gullixson, recently elected [...]Read More... from On This Day | Mi-Not-Hi[...]
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On This Day | The Trouble With Prohibition
“Say, Judge,” he said, “I’ve a bootlegger before me and I don’t know what to give him.” “Well,” replied the old timer, “don’t give him more than $4 a pint—that’s all I ever give.” [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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On This Day | On the Power of Advertising
I believe in advertising as I have said before. It is so powerful it can change my breakfast, change my automobile and my place of living, and as you look over advertising well displayed, [...]Read More... from On This Day | On[...]
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“My Town” docuseries returns for season two, features two North Dakota communities
The documentary series My Town is back for a second season, shining a spotlight on small communities that embody the best of rural America — and this time, two North Dakota towns are in the mix. The season opens with Watford City,[...]
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On This Day | More News Seeking Our Attention
Read Your Own Local Paper, Of Course, but Also Read North Dakota’s Independent Newspaper FARGO Daily Courier-News Advocates Progressive Policies, Stands for the Square Deal Talks Plainly, but Is Fair [...]Read More... from On This Day | More News Seeking Our Attention
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On This Day | Advertisers Keep the Presses Running!
Some of smaller country papers will have a hard time pulling through during the coming winter. It will be up to the merchants of those towns to give the publishers a lift if they [...]Read More... from On This Day | Advertisers[...]
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Media has a trust problem. Could AI be part of the solution?
As newsrooms lean harder on artificial intelligence, audience trust is slipping. A Reuters Institute study found people’s confidence drops sharply the more AI is involved in producing news. Yet journalist Pete Pachal argues that transparency—not retreat—is the way forward. By showing how[...]
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News deserts causing information gap in North Dakota
When a local paper disappears, something larger goes missing too — the steady pulse of community life. A new study from the North Dakota Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives and the North Dakota Newspaper Association found that in three counties without a[...]
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Meet the teens keeping this northeast Wisconsin village from becoming a news desert
In a small Wisconsin town where local papers have faded, the Pulaski News still lands on doorsteps every other Thursday — written entirely by high school students. For 83 years, it’s been more than a class project; it’s been Pulaski’s paper of[...]