Online Blogs:

Crabtree, J. (2005). Blog for Rural America. Blogspot. Retrieved June 4, 2008 from http://cfra.blogspot.com/2005/08/latest-rural-poverty-data.html.

- According to the blog which was created by a member of the Center for Rural Affairs, “The Center for Rural Affairs, a private, non-profit organization, is working to strengthen small businesses, family farms and ranches, and rural communities.” This blog provides extensive articles and data regarding rural poverty and development; also, according to the site, “Permission to reprint items from this web log is hereby granted, on the condition that clear credit is given to the original source of the material.” If a journalist chooses to reprint information from this blog, they should contact the blog’s author. Not only does this blog provide commentary and statistics surrounding rural poverty and rural America, but it also provides related links which could assist journalists in broadening their research. Overall, this blog would be beneficial to any journalist researching rural poverty and rural development.

Cross, A. (2007). The Rural Blog. Blogspot. Retrieved June 4, 2008 from http://irjci.blogspot.com/2007/09/rural-poverty-is-partly-function-of-low.html.

- This blog is “A digest of events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism in rural America, from the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues.” According to the blog, “his blog generally follows traditional journalistic standards. It's not about opinions, though you may read one here occasionally. It's about facts that we think will be useful to rural journalists, non-rural journalists who do rural stories, and others who are interested in rural issues,” making it an excellent source for unbiased statistics rather than unreliable diary-like reporting. This blog contains many entries regarding rural poverty and rural poverty statistics as well as well-researched entries about rural culture and federal policies in rural areas. The blog offers an extensive list of external links to assist journalists in reporting about rural areas and the rural poverty that is found there. This blog is a reliable source of information for any journalist interested in rural America, including rural poverty.