Semester
Spring
Date of Graduation
2009
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Type
MS
College
Reed College of Media
Department
Reed College of Media
Committee Chair
John Temple
Abstract
This professional project contains an external Web site, which serves as a multimedia journalism training guide for weekly rural newspapers in West Virginia. The training guide focuses on issues that many small rural newspapers face, including small staffs and limited budgets and resources. Small rural weekly newspapers in West Virginia serve as beacons of community journalism within their counties. Through the use of multimedia, they can enhance their Web sites to document the lives of those in their community in ways that are far more diverse than print journalism. This professional project also discusses the issues of social responsibility and the Internet as well as community journalism and the communitarian theory.
Recommended Citation
Rhodes, Jessica M., "The West Virginia Uncovered eTrainer; creating an online multimedia training guide" (2009). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 4519.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/4519