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

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 
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*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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