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Reporting projects by students in Community Journalism, fall 2009

Reporting projects by students in Community Journalism, fall 2008

Reporting projects by students in Community Journalism, fall 2007

Reporting by students in spring 2007 Covering the Governor's Race course

Reporting projects by students in fall 2006 Community Journalism course

Reporting projects by students in fall 2005 Community Journalism course

TOBACCO coverage by Rural Journalism class, spring 2005 (click for PDF of full report):

Kentucky, North Carolina spend settlement money for agriculture differently

Without quotas or price supports, Kentucky burley production shifts west

Some legislators worry that tobacco-settlement money is spent too loosely

Complaints about use of settlement funds, oversight cause investigation, changes

Tobacco-dependent Bath County, Kentucky, copes with end of federal program

Entrepreneurial couple show one way to diversify, with gourmet mushrooms

Tobacco grower gets into greenhouses to maintain farm income

Extension Service faces challenges in helping growers, their communities

Mid-semester class report: Tobacco farmers deal with new realities

One local newspaper's coverage of spending of tobacco settlement:

Weekly newspaper looks at local groups' spending of settlement funds

A closer examination of a cattle farmers' group's oversight of programs

Earlier report: Kentucky farmers fuss over use of diversification money