Community News Quotes

Apparently, word of the chicken man incident hadn’t spread quite yet.

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

My mother keeps me abreast of all the hometown things.

Newspapers have an extraordinary amount of local content, including real estate listings and restaurant reviews.

Stay with what's happening locally. It's really important.

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

I sometimes think the only true record of England is the 'Cumberland News.'

Whatever happened in the neighborhood. That's what I was rapping about. And that sparked people's interest. And that's what kind of put me on that path.

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

When I was growing up, 'Ebony Magazine' was a must read in our household. In those pages I found our news, our stories, and my pride.

I don't think my book is any more shocking than if I went out right now and brought back your local newspaper and found a story that happened around here yesterday or the day before that's just as shocking as anything in my book.

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.

A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well