Local Journalism

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Preface

Introduction: Perspectives on the local newspaper.

Rachel Matthews

Section 1. Local newspapers as information provider

Chapter 1: Processes, Platforms, and Pay Models: How Local News Organisations in Five European Countries Are Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Digitalisation

Joy Jenkins

Chapter 2: Unravelling the discourses of hyperlocal journalism

Dave Harte

Chapter 3: Closing the democratic deficit? Hyperlocal news sites need help to come to the rescue of socially deprived communities

Dave Toomer

Chapter 4: Local media and territory in Denmark

Flemming Svith

Section 2. Making money from local newspapers

Chapter 5: The many incarnations of the local newspaper in India.

Priya Rajasekar and Shriram Venkatraman

Chapter 6: Community, the public good and the market: media merger regulation and the crisis in Ireland's local newspaper industry

Anthony Cawley

Chapter 7: Navigating turbulent times: organisational culture and its impact on local newspapers.

Sarah O'Hara

Chapter 8: Shaping the new local: the future of local journalism in the public discourse of collective actors in the USA.

Joaquin Cestino

Section 3. Local newspapers and community

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

Lenka Waschkova

Chapter 10: The Basque identity through the territorial representation of the Basque media

Eneko Bidegain, Ainhoa Larranga and Igor Agirre.

Chapter 11: Rise and fall, rise and fall: The long life and final demise of UK regional newspapers

Tor Clark

Chapter 12: Britain's local papers: Can they switch from commodifying community to doing community?

David Baines

Index