Community Journalism Quotes

I'm a unicorn in the world of journalism; I've stayed in the same mid-sized city, and that staying has allowed me to write two deeply-reported books.

There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job.

I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years.

I stand with the Santa Barbara News-Press. How about you?

My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards.

A news junkie, I read, daily, the 'Times/Sunday Times,' the 'Guardian/Observer,' 'Mail,' and the 'Argus' - both to keep up with crime in Brighton, where I set my novels, and because I think it is vital to support local papers - they provide a unique accountability for councils, emergency services and so much else, and are dangerously undervalued.

Part of our pedagogy is, you report on what's going on in your neighborhood and your city.

I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people's doors.

I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper.

It's important that communities support local, independent journalism, which many people rely upon for information relevant to their daily lives.

One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.

I had been at the newspaper for a few months. It wasn’t regarded as the paper, it was their paper. There was a sense of community because they reported, we reported, I reported the little things, the whist drives, the weddings, the funerals, the little speeches. In one sense it was the most boring copy in the world to anyone picking it up, but, on the other hand, it was crucial to the people who lived in those communities.