Institute for Rual Journalism

And Community Issues

The Institute is based at the University of Kentucky but is a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional effort, with academic partners at Appalachian State University, East Tennessee State University, Eastern Kentucky University, Georgia College and State University, Indiana University, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania, Iowa State University, Marshall University, Middle Tennessee State University, Ohio University, Penn State, Southeast Missouri State University, Virginia Tech, the University of Alaska-Anchorage, the University of Illinois, the University of Maine at Presque Isle, the University of North Carolina, the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Washington and Lee University, West Virginia University, Wheeling Jesuit University and the Knight Community Journalism Fellows program of the University of Alabama.

Because 21 percent of Americans, some 63 million people, are rural. The Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues helps non-metropolitan journalists define the public agenda for their communities, and grasp the local impact of broader issues. It interprets rural issues for metro news media, conducts seminars and publishes research and good examples of rural journalism. It helps journalists all over America learn about rural issues, trends and events in areas they’ve never seen but have much in common with their own, and it helps rural journalists learn how to exercise editorial leadership in small markets.

To visit the Institute's web site: Click Here.

To visit the Institute's blog: Click Here.

To read the Institute's commentary on “A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains”: Click Here.