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When Lightning Ridge lost its newspaper<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Local residents of that rural Australian town lamented their loss of The Ridge News<\/em> and experienced a fragmenting, less-vibrant public sphere, according to a recent article in the Australian Journalism Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Researchers Marco Magasic and Kristy Hess used a two-month focused ethnographic study to explore people\u2019s media-related practices following the closure of the town\u2019s only newspaper in 2015. While social media are considered to have partly filled a news void, the loss led to growing complacency among individuals about political affairs, especially in local government.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHow should journalists cover climate change?\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert asked that question in a Nieman Reports<\/em> article we added to the ACDC collection recently. Her take on answering the question:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very hard issue to cover because it is everything. It\u2019s every aspect of how we live. Its causes are ubiquitous, and its effects are ubiquitous. There are no great stories. Climate change has never really been a good story and won\u2019t ever, on some level, be a good story. I applaud everyone covering climate now if for nothing else, trying to make people think about how we are going to cover this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

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You can read this article here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Role of NGOs in building connections and belonging among refugees in Colorado meatpacking industries<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cUnsettled belonging in complex geopolitics\u201d is the title of a 2021 article we have added from the Sustainability<\/em> journal. A seven-person research team from three universities used data analysis and interviews to examine how \u201cmulti-scalar geopolitical processes shape processes of refugee resettlement and refugee labor in Colorado meatpacking industries.\u00a0 They found that non-governmental organization (NGO) employees, \u201cmany of whom identify as foreign-born and\/or refugees, work to build connection and belonging among refugees in challenging resettlement environments.\u201d<\/p>\n

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You can read the article by open access here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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What \u201csustainability\u201d means to U.S. fruit and vegetable growers <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Growers of produce in the U.S. most often think of three things when they consider sustainability:<\/p>\n