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Bureau County History Center to host talk on Illinois News Deserts. Written
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by Michael Urbanet. This article is being read by an automated voice,
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brought to you by Everlet. Bureau County was once home to more
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than a half dozen independent newspapers. Only one remains today, according to
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Bureau County History Center curator Jessica Gray. Two journalism professionals are scheduled
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to explain why that matters in a free talk at the history
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center. Illinois Growing News Deserts, and why we should care. The presentation
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is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, november seventh, in the Auditorium of
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the Sash Stalter-Matzen Building, 15 Park Avenue W, Princeton, according to the
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History Center. Admission is free. The speakers are Julia Rendelman, an assistant
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professor of journalism at Southern Illinois University, and Ailey Quick, Director of
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Development for the Illinois Press Foundation, and its statewide nonprofit newsroom, Capital
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News Illinois. Nearly every one of our small towns operated their own
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paper for a time, Gray said. Rendelmann, a photographer, has received multiple
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grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. We lose a central
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tenet of our representative democracy when we lose the free press, she
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said. The History Center plans to display copies of newspapers that once
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published in the county, including the Lemoyle Gazette, the DePew Leader, the
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Spring Valley Gazette, and the Bureau County Tribune. The talk is co-presented
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by the Illinois Humanities Road Scholars Speakers Bureau, which sends speakers to
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local nonprofits at no cost to the host organizations. Questions about the
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event go to the History Center at 815-875-2184.