Journalism professor and author of "Emus Loose In Egnar: Big Stories From Small Towns" Judy Muller's op-ed piece about thriving small town newspapers ran in The Oregonian. "It's more than a little ironic that small-town papers have been thriving by practicing what the mainstream media are now preaching, wrote Muller. "'Hyper-localism,' 'citizen journalism,' 'advocacy journalism' -- these are some of the latest buzzwords of the profession. But the concepts, without the fancy names, have been around for ages in small-town newspapers." Muller recently spoke about her book at a Journalism Director's Forum and wrote an op-ed piece for The Los Angeles Times. To read the full article click here.