Sept. 29-20, 2023
Journalism students are traveling to small towns in Washington and Idaho on Sept. 29-30 to report on what's happening in rural communities.
Students, submit photos and other work here:
You can also email any materials to lisalynn@wsu.edu
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 2023:
- 2023 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:
- Q&A: Why We Need Better Reporting on Rural America
- Covering rural America: What reporters get wrong and how to get it right
- Most of America’s landscape is rural. But journalists don’t go there very often.
- The prevailing narratives of rural America… do they hold up? - SJN discussion
- 24 Hours in America - a series of short features
Stories are being added on Flickr as they're submitted:
About the Rural Reporting Project
The Journalism and Media Production Department at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication launched the Rural Reporting Project in partnership with Northwest Public Broadcasting. The project involves experimentation with community-guided rural reporting and the potential to improve rural news coverage and immersive student learning.