Journalism students to play integral role in saving community newspaper

My goal isn’t to buy The Echo. Instead, I am planning for a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation to own and operate the newspaper. I will be a non-paid volunteer. The Maxwell family has agreed to donate the newspaper to the new entity.”

Dink NeSmith

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Grady College journalists are teaming with one of their alums to rescue a 148-year-old weekly newspaper in nearby Oglethorpe County with the help of an innovative experiential learning project.

Within hours of hearing that the county newspaper, the Oglethorpe Echo, was announcing its final publication, Dink NeSmith (ABJ ’70) created a plan to save the newspaper. The centerpiece of the plan includes senior journalism students at Grady College, who will learn in a working community newsroom.

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