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Reappraising Local and Community News in the UK: Media, Practice, and Policy book cover

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Reappraising Local and Community News in the UK Media, Practice, and Policy

Edited By David Harte, Rachel Matthews Copyright 2022
136 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

136 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

136 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Drawing on expert contributions from around the UK, this collection brings together a series of insights into the contemporary local and community news media landscape in the UK. Offering an analysis of the ongoing ‘crisis’ in the provision of local news, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the book provides a critical space for practitioners and scholars to reflect on emerging models for... Read more

Table of Contents

Introduction: local public service journalism and the BBC


David Harte

  1. Local news deserts.
    Agnes Gulyas

  2. All in, all together? Government subsidy for news.
    Jonathan Heawood

  3. British community journalism’s response to the COVID 19 pandemic.
    Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Iñaki Garcia-Blanco and Julia Boelle

  4. Supporting hyperlocal reporting: global funding, local voices.
    Sarah Cheverton

  5. Who’s cashing in? Reappraising the economic value of independent community news.
    Clare Cook and Coral Milburn-Curtis

  6. Community Radio as Citizen Journalism.
    Aleksandar Kocic, Josephine Coleman, Jerry Padfield, Jelena Milicev

  7. Local data journalism practice in the UK
    Jingrong Tong

  8. Considering slow local news.
    Mark Dunford

Biography

David Harte is an associate professor within the Birmingham Institute of Media and English at Birmingham City University. He is co-author of Hyperlocal Journalism, published by Routledge. He has published widely on community and hyperlocal media, as well as running his own hyperlocal news website in Birmingham since 2010.

Rachel Matthews is Associate Head of the School of Media and Performing Arts at Coventry University. A former journalist, her research focuses on the local newspaper - past, present and future. She is the author of A History of the Provincial Press in England published by Bloomsbury Academic.

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