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For over a year, Railroad Bill eluded sheriffs, private detectives hired by the L&N line, and bounty hunters who traveled across the country to match guns with the legendary desperado. The African American outlaw was wanted on multiple charges of robbery and murder, and rumor had it that he stole from the rich to give to the poor. He terrorized busy train lines from east of Mobile to the Florida Panhandle, but as soon as the lawmen got close, he disappeared into the bayous and pine forests--until one day his luck ran out, and he was gunned down inside a general store in Atmore, Alabama. Litt

Independently owned news websites are an emerging but understudied part of the changing news business. This study applied resource-based theory to an analysis of the longevity of these mostly small-scale entrepreneurial ventures. The results show that as an aggregate sample, the sites do not fit the theory's expectations. Disaggregating the sample by the sites' basic business model uncovered clear differences between for-profits and nonprofits in the effect of resources on their longevity. The sharpest difference was for "product reputation," which had inverse effects between the two groups.

Civic journalism's routine use of bringing more "average" citizens into the news was tested by comparing the Tallahassee (FL) Democrat, a nationally recognized civic-journalism newspaper, with its past, traditional-journalism self and a traditionalist contemporary. Nonelite information sources were elevated to numerical parity with elite sources in the civic journalism Democrat, but the frequency and directness of their news voices were largely unchanged. The news-voice profile of elites was diminished in the civic-journalism paper. Routine civic journalism at the Democrat did more to tone down the newsworthiness of elites than to raise the volume for nonelites.

A lot happens on the complex journey from paddock to plate. The first edition of 'The New Zealand Land & Food Annual' features cutting-edge, provocative and expert views on this broad and economically pivotal agrifood and agribusiness sector. The annual aims to serve the national interest, to inform debate, and to be of value to experts, policymakers and the general public. Each edition will have a defining theme. The first addresses New Zealand's market-led approach to the development and management of our food and agricultural sector. It asks: Given the huge risks NZ INC. faces, where is New Zealand agrifood going, and how can we make it sustainable - and attack-proof?

A critical review of forty-seven evaluative studies on public journalism shows that its philosophy and newswork practices have had generally limited effects on the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of journalists and news audiences. These works tend to focus on a handful of showcase public-journalism news organizations and projects. Methodological shortcomings found in several of the studies are discussed. Suggestions for future research are offered.

English-language online newspapers in Asia were content analyzed using a five-dimensional conceptualization of interactivity. This study offers both an enlarged theoretical framework for studying Web newspapers and tests that framework in the cross-cultural context of Asian journalism. Although all of the online newspapers examined provided users with a relatively complex choice of news content, most did not rate highly on the remaining four dimensions of interactivity.

Data on the number of black executions from 400+ counties in 6 states of the Cotton South 1890-1909 & 1910-1929 (representing pre- & postdisenfranchisement periods) are used to examine the utility of competition explanations, particularly Hubert M. Blalock's threat hypotheses (Toward a Theory of Minority-Group Relations, New York: Wiley, 1967; see SA 16:1/67C8904), for explaining geographic variation in the frequency of legal black executions (BEs). The relationship between black population concentration & BEs is assessed before & after introducing direct measures of racial competition. Findings for the earlier time period suggest that economic competition between the races had a substantial influence on the frequency of BEs within counties. However, a persistently strong relationship between black population concentration & BEs indicates the operation of social forces not included in the models. For the postdisenfranchisement period, the relationship between a county's racial composition & BE virtually disappears, & none of the direct measures of racial competition exerts a significant influence on BEs. The evidence from the earlier & later time periods combined indicates that a real variation in the propensity to execute blacks was shaped by both economic & political competition between the races. 2 Tables, 2 Figures, 35 References. Adapted from the source document.