Foundations of Community Journalism

<b>Foundations of Community Journalism</b> is the first and only book to focus on how to understand and conduct research in this ever-increasing field. With chapters written by established journalism scholars and teachers this book provides students and researchers with an understanding of the multiple methods applied to the study of community journalism such as historical social-scientific cultural/critical and interdisciplinary approaches. It explains what community journalism is as a research concept and offers a range of different methods and theories that can be applied to community journalism research. Although there are numerous how-to community journalism manuals for students and newspaper editors none focuses on how to conduct research into community journalism. The body of knowledge in Foundations of Community Journalism would take readers months perhaps years of independent work to gather making this book a must-have volume and reference tool for anybody who is interested in the relationships between journalism and communities.