BLUFFTON TODAY

President Barry Connor, presented Kyle Poplin, Executive Director of Bluffton Today The Bluffton Rotary Certificate of Appreciation upon speaking to the Rotary on the history of Bluffton Today. Kyle started with the newspaper when it was launched four years ago in 2005. 

The free newspaper carries local news within the Bluffton community which relied solely on advertising revenue to publish and distribute to approximately 16,000 households seven days a week.  In December of 2008 the Bluffton Today converted to a paid newspaper due to the rising newsprint and drop in ad revenues because of the economy. 

Kyle said "Thanks to the readers' input they have become a model for community journalism to which he was recently awarded the 2009-10 Knight-Wallace fellowship Award." 

 He joins a group of 12 U.S. journalists and several international journalists from organizations such as ABC News, BBC, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, National Public Radio and the Washington Post as 2009 KWF fellows.  He will have an academic year of study in Argentina, Moscow and New York City to meet with worldwide journalism leaders.