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The Ashland city council declined to create a policy on Monday night about which journalists should be allowed to attend executive session meetings that are closed to the public. Crafting such a policy would require answering the sometimes murky question of who should be considered a journalist.
Web news site for Ashland, Oregon.
Web news site for Ashland, Oregon.
Ashland is just one of Oregon’s small communities where newspaper coverage has been shrinking in recent years. But creators of a new hyperlocal journalism website are hoping to fend off that trend.
Listen • 17:47 There used to be big money in the journalism business. But for-profit newsrooms fell on hard times when advertisers migrated to newer media. They are still smarting and frequently cutting staff, while news operations designed without profits as a goal are growing in number. Nonprofit newsrooms are often small, but provide a vital service in keeping communities informed about local issues and events. The Applegater provides such information to the people of the Applegate Valley west of Medford. Bert Etling, who worked in for-profit news for many years, is...