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[Commlist] New Book – Reappraising Local and Community News in the UK: Media, Practice, and Policy

Sat Oct 02 11:05:23 GMT 2021



New book

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

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 economically sustainable, participatory local news services. It showcases new scholarly analyses of local news provision and community news practices, giving voice to the experiences of practitioners from across the local news ecology. In a set of diverse contributing chapters, campaigners and practitioners map out the period of recent rapid change for local news, questioning contemporary government initiatives and highlighting the advent of diverse, entrepreneurial reactions to the spaces created by a decline in local mainstream news services. This book is a timely examination of what we can learn from the variety of approaches being taken across the local media landscape in the commercial, subsidised and non-profit sector, shining new light on how practices that place the engagement of citizens at their centre might be propagated within this policy and funding landscape.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003173144/reappraising-local-community-news-uk-david-harte-rachel-matthews <https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003173144/reappraising-local-community-news-uk-david-harte-rachel-matthews>

*Contents:*

Introduction: local public service journalism and the BBC
David Harte

Chapter 1: Local news deserts.

Agnes Gulyas

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

Chapter 3: British community journalism’s response to the COVID 19 pandemic.

Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Iñaki Garcia-Blanco and Julia Boelle

Chapter 4: Supporting hyperlocal reporting: global funding, local voices.

Sarah Cheverton

Chapter 5: Who’s cashing in? Reappraising the economic value of independent community news.

Clare Cook and Coral Milburn-Curtis

Chapter 6: Community Radio as Citizen Journalism.

Aleksandar Kocic, Josephine Coleman, Jerry Padfield, Jelena Milicev

Chapter 7: Local data journalism practice in the UK

Jingrong Tong

Chapter 8: Considering slow local news.

Mark Dunford

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