ABSTRACT
Tom Wolfe and Pat Gish had nearly twenty years of news experience between them when they bought The Mountain Eagle, a weekly paper in eastern Kentucky’s Letcher County. Everything depends on the relationships reporters form with individuals in the community and how well reporters listen to what they tell reporters. The stronger the relationship, the greater the trust between reporters and the community, all of which helps make reporters reporting more influential. Despite all its governments, religions, ethnicities and races, the world is more connected than ever, even though many insist on remaining apart. Ted Gup, chair of journalism department at Emerson College, quizzed his journalism students on current events when he taught at Case Western Reserve University. The lack of professional journalists on the street has paved the way for the citizen journalists, says Bugeja. Newspapers, Michael Bugeja wrote in Editor & Publisher, have an “out-door history” ranging from paperboys and newsstand street sales to reporters on the beat.
