You know, I dont really know what that horizon is. The 116-year-old bridge that unites Koondrook and Barham now divides the towns because of border restrictions which, Polkinghorne says, have been disastrous for our region. Talk to us about that partnership a little and why thats important. "On a household level, the effect of a bridge is considerable. NELSON: based on foundations and philanthropists? If it werent for the difficulties of going through it, this is one of the most exciting times weve ever seen in this business. It could be weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Please ??? A few years ago we didnt have as robust news department as we have right now, and weve gone to the beat system and we have two reporters that focus on metro or city and county governance, and theyre looking into those stories now and were asking them to look into those stories. The importance of newspapers is an underestimated factor. My contention is, is that there are a section of local government that is pretty much a shadow government and with very little oversight and I dont know who to go to. Most of our food products come from the country crops, fish, poultry, you name it and chances are it originated . Your email address will not be published. NELSON: And, finally, Tom Karlo, general manager for KPBS. Database journalists are real people who have real jobs and they can sit there with a spreadsheet or a MySQL database and generate news. So where is that line? Thank you for being there. So thats our work. NELSON: Lets stop here. LIGHT: Yeah, and it was done with ill intent, right? Every town with a school needs a newspaper.". Were not the engineers who are dreaming up those next gadgets. Ive heard all the talk, but I dont believe it until I read in the paper, she told me. Arkansas is 19-12 overall, 8-10 in . Jeff Light, editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune, Greg Dawson, news director for NBC 7/39, Grant Barrett, engagement editor for voiceofsandiego.org, and Tom Karlo, general manager for KPBS. In Nigeria for instance, most people who dwell in rural communities have their relations living in the city. BARRY: It was how do you get a point across to the news media when local government has failed in their duty? What's the role for local media in the 24/7 digital age? Newspaper is the most important part of our lives. IMPORTANCE OF RURAL MARKETS Today rural markets are providing substantial market share to consumer goods firms due to increase in purchasing power of rural population. I would like to say this. India is a country of about one billion people where more than 70% of the humankind inhabits in rural areas. Find more local news So I think to ask the news media to predict problems in the future is pretty rough and, you know, but I think that, you know, as they were making the deals with unions, we were reporting on theyve cut a deal, theyre not going to get huge raises but they are getting better pensions. LIGHT: Yeah, no, I dont buy into any of that. Is this a fact or is this an opinion? Weve talked about things cutting down but were adding 5 positions in our newsroom this year and its because I can take any net revenue or profit and reinvest it in the organization and not have to send it to a corporate person or, NELSON: Grant Barrett, weve got just a couple of seconds left. NELSON: Sure. "Anybody can audition for a show. You know, Gene Cubbison, whos always been our political guy, but hes more focused than ever on it. It is a newspaper that primarily focuses on the coverage of issues, events and developments in a specific rural community. Most rural schools and the communities that they serve are not broken. KARLO: Yeah, theres a contact, you can go to the website. DAWSON: Absolutely. Team Records and Series Notes. Well, we know whats going to happen. Its important that it be respected and it is even more important that it be trusted. Its just not going to happen. On a community level, it is enormous." So we take that data, we generate stories about salaries, about budgets, about discrepancies, about graft and fraud and that sort of thing, about a mortgage swindle. I would be surprised if in 30 years you saw newspapers. I wanted to know, I understand like nowadays technology has been so advanced and were getting more like the e-readers and constant updates on iPhones. Theyre so much smaller today. BARBARA (Caller, Vista): Yes, hi there. The pages roll off an 1894 Miehle printing press at The Bridge's office in 2003.Credit:Ian Kenins. And a lot of the journalism that is being done now, when we talk about getting rid of the fat middle, the stuff that was fun to do but maybe didnt impact our readers, a lot of the journalism that weI think everyone at this tableis focusing on now is the journalism that matters most to our readers, listeners, consumers, users, whatever you want to call them. As a phenomenon, rural development can be viewed as the result of interactions between various physical, environmental, technological, economic, socio-cultural and institutional factors in the rural areas of a nation. You can e-mail us. BARBARA: And I really cant read it the way I would enjoy reading it because Im clicking on various articles and hoping I can get them on my screen, and its just not the same thing. Become a newsletter subscriber to stay up-to-date on the latest Giving Compass news. Why is local news the thing for any of you? NELSON: I mean, whats the matter with just getting it the old way? That, in a nutshell, is the true Power of the Press. You know, more and more youre seeing things that say people are going to multiple sources, and they are weighing the biases and, you know, the place that theyre coming from, you know, in a fairly encouraging way, that they do see that, okay, Im getting this over here, now, you know, I think as things become more fragmented you do worry about people only seeking out the source that they like to hear. The news they deliver might be pretty much the same as before, but the model under which they operate is not. Jeff in La Mesa, thank you for calling. So theres a lot of practices involved there that people are very married to that arent necessarily essential to the work of journalism. NELSON: Good, and also, you know, Grant Barrett, Voice of San Diego, the whole delivery system thing, I mean, youve gone to a completely different kind of delivery system of news and information than the traditional radio, television, print, and youve gone online only. Occasionally, well take a national story and put a local spin on it just like any of the media organizations in town will do but, yeah, local news, thats our focus. In fact, Barry, if youre there, were going to take a call here from Mission Beach. And hes very typical of the kind of people if you can put your teeth into a beat, you can master that beat and generate news by knowing your sources, knowing the organizations and knowing the community really, and having. BARRETT: Well, if youre asking if we were reporting that the pension obligation was growing, yes, could anybody were we predicting this is going to lead to the fall of San Diego at that time? Rural India is today becoming the driver of our economy and its role in present day India especially in the light of Obama's comment is of utmost importance .". Country Australians are renowned for their resilience, but 2020 has so far tested even the most stoic. And, you know, when youre on the air and youre doing a live interview, as somebody who does a radio show, I can tell you this, you misspeak. //-->