<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: black">We are researching your news contributing activities (e.g. stories, photos, videos) to online newspapers. Would you mind circulating this message to citizens who contribute news content to your online news publications? Also, might you further distribute this message to any online citizen news organizations that you are aware of? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: black">This confidential survey will take about 15-20 minutes to complete. The survey asks basic questions about the participant, various perceptions about mainstream and independent citizen organizations and journalists, motivations for news contributing activities and community engagement.</span><span style="color: black"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="color: black"><p><strong>Follow this link to the Survey: </strong><br /><a href='http://uky.qualtrics.com/WRQualtricsSurveyEngine?Q_SS=0SrEuxYo6rT3Kmw_a59syjnsSJtoaPO&SVID=Prod'>Take the Survey</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><b>Or copy and paste the url below into your internet browser:</b><br />http://uky.qualtrics.com/WRQualtricsSurveyEngine?Q_SS=0SrEuxYo6rT3Kmw_a59syjnsSJtoaPO&SVID=Prod</p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: black">Thank you in advance for your participation! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: black"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: black">Deborah Chung, Ph.D., University of Kentucky, </span><u><span style="color: blue"><a href="mailto:dchung@uky.edu">dchung@uky.edu</a></span></u><span style="color: black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: black">Seungahn Nah, Ph.D., University of Kentucky, <a href="mailto:seungahn.nah@uky.edu">seungahn.nah@uky.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: black">Please note: This study was approved by our institutional review board(s) for human subjects. If you do not wish to receive further emails from us, please reply to this message and leave the message blank.</span></p>