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LEXINGTON, Ky. - The owners of a weekly newspaper in West Kentucky, who have persevered for almost 30 years in the face of increasing challenges to the industry – and ....
Graphic by the Daily Yonder. Kentucky journalist Al Smith helped start multiple state and national organizations, steered to safety a federal agency that Ronald Reagan targeted for elimination, and produced and hosted one of the longest-running public TV programs on government affairs in America. But, according to his memoir, , none of his many jobs was more important than being editor of a small-town weekly newspaper in rural southern Kentucky. Smith, a revered figure in Kentucky journalism and civic life, died March 19 at the age of 94 (Complete obituary). To explore Smith’s importance to Kentucky and journalism, the Daily Yonder assembled a panel of people who knew Smith in his many roles as editor, raconteur, state and federal administrator, mentor, and friend. ....
The Daily Yonder And heck, we re just getting started. Share this: In early 2007 it was another election season. Then, as now, there was much jabber on television and in print about what the “rural vote” was going to do. The presidential candidates were making their trips to Iowa and New Hampshire. And although these states were constantly described as “rural” there was hardly anything rural about the campaign. Outside a required pledge of allegiance to ethanol and a few hay bales (always square) at campaign events, there was nothing remotely rural about what these would-be presidents were saying. I remember talking with Dee Davis and Tim Marema about how we needed a news site on the web that would push real rural concerns in front of the candidates. They thought that was a good idea. So we Julie Ardery, Tim, Shawn Poynter and me started the Daily Yonder. Now it’s more than a decade and too-many-elections-to-count later. And if success is meas ....