ABSTRACT
This comprehensive edited collection provides key contributions in the field, mapping out fundamental topics and analysing current trends through an international lens.
Offering a collection of invited contributions from scholars across the world, the volume is structured in seven parts, each exploring an aspect of local media and journalism. It brings together and consolidates the latest research and theorisations from the field, and provides fresh understandings of local media from a comparative perspective and within a global context. This volume reaches across national, cultural, technological and socio-economic boundaries to bring new understandings to the dominant foci of research in the field and highlights interconnection and thematic links. Addressing the significant changes local media and journalism have undergone in the last decade, the collection explores the history, politics, ethics and contents of local media, as well as delving deeper into the business and practices that affect not only the journalists and media-makers involved, but consumers and communities as well.
For students and researchers in the fields of journalism studies, journalism education, cultural studies, and media and communications programmes, this is the comprehensive guide to local media and journalism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|58 pages
Histories and legacies of local media and journalism
chapter 1|9 pages
Historicising The Afterlife
chapter 6|9 pages
‘Peopleization’ of News
part II|58 pages
Local media policies
chapter 12|8 pages
The Impact of Communication Policies in Local Television Models
part III|64 pages
Local media, publics and politics
chapter 13|8 pages
Local Journalism in the United States
chapter 14|9 pages
Remediating the Local Through Localised News Making
chapter 15|9 pages
De-Professionalization and Fragmentation
chapter 17|9 pages
The Return of Party Journalism in China and ‘Janusian’ Content
chapter 18|8 pages
Strategy Over Substance and National in Focus?
chapter 19|10 pages
From Journal of Record to the 24/7 News Cycle
part IV|62 pages
Ownership and sustainability of local media
chapter 21|12 pages
Local Media Owners as Saviours in the Czech Republic
chapter 22|10 pages
What Can We Learn from Independent Family-Owned Local Media Groups?
part V|89 pages
Local journalists and journalistic practices
chapter 26|9 pages
At The Crossroads of Hobby, Community Work and Media Business
chapter 29|12 pages
Specialised Training of Local Journalists in Armed Conflict
chapter 30|9 pages
From Community to Commerce?
chapter 31|10 pages
Two-Tier Tweeting
chapter 32|12 pages
Centralised and Digitally Disrupted
chapter 33|11 pages
Situating Journalistic Coverage
part VI|72 pages
Communities and audiences of local news
chapter 34|11 pages
What Does the Audience Experience as Valuable Local Journalism?
chapter 36|10 pages
The Emerging Deficit
chapter 37|9 pages
Strength in Numbers
chapter 38|10 pages
Bottom-Up Hyperlocal Media in Belgium
part VII|59 pages
Local media and the public good