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Town: Tennessee

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  • Media

‘America is the most interesting place in the world at this moment’

  • Deborah Fallows
  • January 10, 2023
Deb and Jim Fallows discuss the Our Towns journey with Brett Hollenbeck on 'The Impact Code' podcast.
The contents of the railcar found in the Children’s Holocaust Museum at Whitwell Middle School.
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  • Education

The Paper Clips Project: Students Bring Holocaust History to Southeastern Tennessee

  • Alex Bieler
  • June 14, 2022
Whitwell, Tennessee has become the center for a world-renowned cultural education project and Holocaust memorial.
Mark Russell, executive editor of The Commercial Appeal in Memphis.
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  • Local Journalism

In Defense of The Commercial Appeal

  • James Fallows
  • November 13, 2019
A few days ago I published an item about a new online journalistic site in Tennessee, The Daily Memphian. In that item, I quoted some Daily Memphian officials saying that they had been prompted…
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  • Local Journalism

On the Virtues of Statewide Journalism

  • James Fallows
  • November 12, 2019
A few days ago I published an item about a year-old online effort to revive local news coverage in Tennessee, The Daily Memphian. It was part of an ongoing series about efforts to…
Justin Rushing, advertising director of the online news site The Daily Memphian.
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  • Local Institutions

In Memphis, A Lab Experiment for Local News

  • James Fallows
  • November 8, 2019
It’s time for another look at new financial, editorial, and technological models for local journalism. You’ll find previous entries at these links: from Mississippi; from Maine; from Massachusetts; from Southern California and the San Francisco…
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  • Libraries

A Big Little Idea From Nashville

  • Deborah Fallows
  • September 30, 2019
During our travels visiting towns and cities across the country for American Futures and now Our Towns, Jim Fallows (my husband) and I have encountered story after story of short, sweet initiatives…
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  • Economic Development

Wichita, Salisbury, Knoxville, Seattle: Revival Updates

  • James Fallows
  • April 8, 2016
Here are some recent developments that are related to the “America Is Putting Itself Back Together” argument in our March issue. They’re also connected to the subject of my post earlier…

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