ABSTRACT
I started my career as a community journalist, and spent 22 years at that pursuit before joining academia. My first college internship was at a weekly paper in my hometown, and my first professional job was at a small-town daily in rural central New York. Even when I reached the level of working for a metropolitan daily, the Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle, I spent most of my 15-year career there working with a community news section that was a weekly stand-alone in the daily paper. So it is natural that as a scholar my research interests focus on the production, presentation, and impact of community news. I can count a book, book chapter, and a number of journal articles and refereed research presentations on that topic among my publications. But why Irish community media?
