Revealing Rural Realities: What Fuels Inaccurate and Incomplete Coverage of Rural Issues?
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Description
Report discussing the representation and misrepresentation of rural issues and prosperity in national and regional news media and journalism. Offers recommendations to journalists based on interviews in 2019 with rural experts, activists, and journalists, and a media scan to analyze coverage of rural America in national and regional news. Identifies rural healthcare as a common topic of coverage,
noting media emphasis on negative aspects of rural life including hospital closures, health disparities, and suicide.
Date
05/2020
Type
Document
Organizations
Aspen Institute, Center for Rural Strategies, Hattaway Communications, Rural Housing Assistance Council
Tagged as
Closures of healthcare facilities and services · Culture and cultural competency · Health disparities · Housing and homelessness · Networking and collaboration · Rural-urban differences · Stigma