Local Journalism

<p><em>Local Journalism</em> investigates the range of meanings associated with the ‘local newspaper’ and considers how digital technology has disrupted the fabric of the local news industry.</p><p>Divided into two parts, this book first provides a theoretical account of how normative meanings associated with the local newspaper have been challenged by the impact of digital technology and then goes on to explore these questions via case studies drawn from a variety of contexts including the US, Ireland, Denmark, the UK and Spain. It suggests three thematic ways of understanding the role of the legacy local newspaper in a post-digital environment, namely as an information provider, commercial entity and community champion. While much scholarship talks of their demise, this book argues for a more nuanced understanding of the local newspaper and its continued significance to people, places and commercial interests. </p><p><i>Local Journalism</i> will benefit students, academics and researchers in the areas of journalism, media studies and sociology.</p> <p><strong>List of Figures</strong></p><p><strong>List of Tables</strong></p><p>List of Contributors </p><p>Preface</p><p>Introduction: Perspectives on the local newspaper. </p><p>Rachel Matthews</p><p>Section 1. Local newspapers as information provider</p><p>Chapter 1: Processes, Platforms, and Pay Models: How Local News Organisations in Five European Countries Are Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Digitalisation</p><p>Joy Jenkins</p><p>Chapter 2: Unravelling the discourses of hyperlocal journalism</p><p>Dave Harte</p><p>Chapter 3: Closing the democratic deficit? Hyperlocal news sites need help to come to the rescue of socially deprived communities</p><p>Dave Toomer</p><p>Chapter 4: Local media and territory in Denmark</p><p>Flemming Svith</p><p>Section 2. Making money from local newspapers</p><p>Chapter 5: The many incarnations of the local newspaper in India.</p><p>Priya Rajasekar and Shriram Venkatraman</p><p>Chapter 6: Community, the public good and the market: media merger regulation and the crisis in Ireland’s local newspaper industry</p><p>Anthony Cawley</p><p>Chapter 7: Navigating turbulent times: organisational culture and its impact on local newspapers. </p><p>Sarah O’Hara</p><p>Chapter 8: Shaping the new local: the future of local journalism in the public discourse of collective actors in the USA.</p><p>Joaquin Cestino</p><p>Section 3. Local newspapers and community</p><p>Chapter 9: ‘I see myself as Batman: I’m doing it in the name of the local community.’ Addressing the complexity of the relationship between the local, the local audience and local journalists</p><p>Lenka Waschkova</p><p>Chapter 10: The Basque identity through the territorial representation of the Basque media</p><p>Eneko Bidegain, Ainhoa Larranga and Igor Agirre.</p><p>Chapter 11: Rise and fall, rise and fall: The long life and final demise of UK regional newspapers</p><p>Tor Clark</p><p>Chapter 12: Britain’s local papers: Can they switch from commodifying community to doing community? </p><p>David Baines</p><p>Index</p>