Rural Reporting Plunge 2022

Journalism students are traveling to small towns in Washington and Idaho on Oct. 14-15, to learn about arts and culture in rural communities.

This year's theme is solutions journalism related to rural arts and culture, including music, language, sports, museums, festivals, arts education and historic preservation.

Key documents for 2022:

• 2022 Team Instructions
• Reporting Handbook
• Instructions for required forms
• Creative Works Release: This form means you allow Murrow College to use the work you produce as part of this project to publish on the project website and promotional purposes. You retain the copyright for all of your work.
• Equipment Form: This allows you to use the Murrow College camera kits by acknowledging that you are responsible for the gear while using it and may need to pay if anything is lost or broken.
• Travel Expense Worksheet and Lost Receipt Affidavit

Here is some recommended reading:

• Most of America’s landscape is rural. But journalists don’t go there very often.
• Something Special Is Happening in Rural America - commentary by writer Sarah Smarsh
• If We Can Report on the Problem, We Can Report on the Solution - thoughts from the Solutions Journalism Network founders
• The prevailing narratives of rural America… do they hold up? - SJN discussion
• 24 Hours in America - a series of short features