Local Media: Local Journalism in Context

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Preface: Local journalism and local media: contested perceptions, rocket science and parallel universes......Page 18
Part 1 Local newspapers and media......Page 24
1. Attacking the devil?: Local journalists and local newspapers in the UK......Page 26
2. News on local radio......Page 39
3. What future for regional television news?......Page 50
4. News from a small country: The media in Scotland......Page 60
5. The regional and local media in Wales......Page 72
6. Profits, politics and paramilitaries: The local news media in Northern Ireland......Page 83
Part 2 The economics of the local press......Page 94
7. Educating and training local journalists......Page 96
8. Profits before product?: Ownership and economics of the local press......Page 106
9. Industrial relations and local journalism......Page 116
10. Local journalists and the local press: waking up to change?......Page 127
11. Regulating the local press......Page 138
Part 3 Local newspapers: exploring the range......Page 150
12. The alternative local press......Page 152
13. Real readers, real news: The work of a local newspaper editor......Page 163
14. A right free for all!: Competition, soundbite journalism and developments in the local free press......Page 173
15. Local news, global politics: Reporting the London bomb attacks......Page 185
Part 4 Constructing the local news agenda......Page 196
16. Local government public relations and the local press......Page 198
17. Hungary media need fast food: The role of the Central Office of Information......Page 212
18. The role of the freelancer in local journalism......Page 223
19. Trading on trust: news agencies, local journalism and local media......Page 233
Part 5 Read all about it! Editorial content in the local press......Page 242
20. Letters to the editor in local and regional newspapers: Giving voice to the readers......Page 244
21. Open source?: Hearing voices in the local press......Page 255
22. Out da
mned plot: The Evening Standard and the introduction of the London congestion charge......Page 268
23. Downgrading the 'local' in local newspapers' reporting of the 2005 UK general election......Page 279
24. Ethics for local journalism......Page 293
25. Football fanzines and local news......Page 303
26. Freedom of information and local journalism......Page 313
Index......Page 324