Interviews with nursing home residents from student-run Ga. weekly illustrates bedrock community journalism principle - Entrepreneur Generations

Excerpt from the Echo's recent package

The Oglethorpe Echo in Macon County, Ga., has a recent package with photo portraits of seniors at a local nursing home along with a paragraph for each with interesting tidbits from their lives. It's a powerful and simple but original idea that illustrates a basic principle of community journalism: People are interested in people, and in reading about them. 

Former Echo visual journalist and University of Georgia journalism student Julia Walkup interviewed and photographed the seniors earlier this year as part of a UGA photojournalism weekend workshop that encourages students to capture in-depth portraits of community members. 

UGA students and faculty have staffed the Echo since last fall, when publisher Dink NeSmith, facing retirement without a buyer for the 148-year-old weekly, turned it into a non-profit and turned its daily care over to the school and its journalism students.

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