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The Project for the Revitalization of Local News

The Project for the Revitalization of Local News is an initiative within the Reynolds School to support local journalism in Βι¶ΉΣ³»­. 

Goals of the project

  • Provide news coverage by students and professional journalists in Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ communities that have experienced major reductions in local media, beginning with Elko and Incline Village
  • Organize professional meetings for Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ news leaders to develop strategies and innovations for enhancing and sustaining local service
  • Organize public events to raise community awareness of the decline of local journalism in our state
  • Conduct academic research to assess the provision of local news in Βι¶ΉΣ³»­
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Partnering with KUNR

The Project for the Revitalization of Local News has established reporting programs in Elko, through KUNR’s sister station KNCC (pictured left, located at Great Basin College), and in Incline Village, through the Reynolds School’s Lake Tahoe News Collective, in partnership with KUNR. 

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Leading research on news in Βι¶ΉΣ³»­

In addition to sponsoring industry and community events, the project is conducting the first-ever study of the local-news ecology in Βι¶ΉΣ³»­, in cooperation with RSJ’s Center for Advanced Media Studies.

Support for the project

The project receives funding from The Hearst Foundations, the John Ben Snow Memorial Trust, the Office of the Provost at the Βι¶ΉΣ³»­, Great Basin College and individual donors. For more information about the project, contact project director Al Stavitsky at ags@unr.edu.