Why print may still lead the way in community journalism

Some interesting thoughts on community journalism from Newspaper project.org

Speculation about the Internet replacing community newspapers is counter-intuitive. What are you going to do when you want to know what’s on sale this week at the Piggly Wiggly? Send out a Twitter message for Ricky McLeod? Google chicken quarters in Sumter? People who are engaged in a community read a local paper, and advertisers know this. You ignore the workings of your community at your own peril. Free speech and taxpayer representation are the most basic aspects of a democracy, and good community newspaper journalism is at the core of it all.

They make a good point.Often people wanting community information are of the generation that will prefer the older methods of communication.

However community is about everyone in that community,so methods of communicating to the younger generations must not be neglected .