The Eudora Times staff will return to work providing community news later this month.
The online community newspaper began as an experiment in University of Kansas journalism classes during the spring.
After seeing the favorable reaction from the Eudora community, we resolved to be back in the fall.
We will host our first community engagement event between 6:30-8:30 p.m. Aug. 28 at Eudora's City Hall. This is an opportunity to meet the news team and for us to learn more about what you want in community news.
There will be brief presentations at 6:30 and 7:30 followed by meet and greet time. We hope you can come to either time.
Here are the main members of the fall news team:
Lucie Krisman is a junior from Tulsa, Oklahoma. She would like to continue reporting after she graduates. She hopes to cover either news or music/arts and culture in her future journalism career, whether at the local or national level.
She loves all things writing/journalism and can't wait to get more hands-on experience while covering Eudora.
“Seeing how the Eudora community reacted to last semester’s coverage and getting to know more about the town was amazing, and I'm super excited to keep telling their stories,” she said.
Her main coverage areas will be arts, religion, business, city government and politics.
Riley Wilson is a senior from Wamego, Kansas, but lived in several small Kansas towns growing up. She is majoring in journalism and minoring in youth development and juvenile justice.
She plans to attend law school after graduating next year. Her ultimate career goal is working in the juvenile justice system. She likes to listen to music, read books and find unique coffee spots.
“I’m excited to cover Eudora because it reminds me of the places I grew up in, and I think it offers great stories that should be told,” she said.
Her main coverage areas will be law enforcement, schools, state government, senior citizens and politics.
Teri Finneman is the newspaper’s editor and a KU journalism professor. She began working in journalism 20 years ago in North Dakota and has worked for weekly and daily newspapers, as well as in radio, television, social media and podcasting.
She is a former multimedia Capitol correspondent and now serves as chairwoman of a national organization of journalism historians.
“I’m not only committed to The Eudora Times because, as a journalist, I know how important local news is to a small community to help bind it together, but also because I know how important a newspaper is to preserve a community’s history,” she said.
In addition to the above staff, there also will be various KU student journalists who serve as correspondents throughout the fall.
Furthermore, The Eudora Times staff is partnering with a Missouri School of Journalism class that will spend the semester working to create content and revenue plans for The Eudora Times.
These Mizzou students plan to attend the August community engagement event with KU students as well to begin their research on the community.
You can reach The Eudora Times with story ideas at eudoratimes@gmail.com or via our Facebook page.
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