Local Journalist Makes Good: Cultural Geography and Contemporary Journalism
Journalists practise journalism, not geography. Nevertheless, this paper argues that journalism plays a key role in the representation of space and place, landscape and the built environment and as such is profoundly implicated in the meanings and values
Griffin, Grahame
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Perceptions versus reality: Exploring the launch of Documenters Canada
Documenters are citizens trained and paid to take notes at public meetings. This study examines the implementation of Canada’s first Documenters site, launched in September 2024 by The Green Line in Toronto. Seven semi-structured interviews and one focus
Clément Lechat, Sara Mizannojehdehi
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Spontaneous, Substantive, and Relational
EN. The expansion of research on local journalism has been accompanied by recurrent calls to better define the phenomenon. Rather than propose a single definition, this paper argues that this area of study can be better understood as having distinct ...
Matthew Powers
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Routledge companion to local media and journalism
This comprehensive edited collection provides key contributions in the field, mapping out fundamental topics and analysing current trends through an international lens.
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Trust and ethics in local journalism: a distinctive orientation towards responsible journalism and ethical practices [PDF]
This chapter compares the perceptions and experiences of local journalists with those of other types of journalists in six European countries to advance our understanding of ethics in local journalism in different journalism cultures and contexts.
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It is impossible to think about the role of local journalism out of its context. In the United States of America, as in many other Western societies, this context is of increasing precarity.
Cestino-Castilla, Joaquín,
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Local Journalism and Social Journalism - Isomorphism and Proximity
The researchers have shown that local publications share common values, such as the desire not only to produce local news but also to be active members of their community, to give voice to those who cannot be heard otherwise, to assume a role in preserving democracy, building bridges between cultural differences.
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Sourcing Local Information in News Deserts
(1) Background: News deserts are communities without a local news outlet, or communities where residents face significantly reduced access to the news of the local public sphere.
Luísa Torre +3 more
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Exploring initiatives towards Social Impact contributing to better Quality Education: A Collaborative Online International Learning project between the University of Johannesburg and the University of Dallas, Texas [PDF]
This reflective paper examines the impact of a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) project on journalism pedagogy and student development. The study aimed to assess how interdisciplinary, cross-cultural collaboration can enhance journalism
Maud Blose
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The re-birth of the "beat": A hyperlocal online newsgathering model [PDF]
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Journalism Practice, 6(5-6), 754 - 765, 2012, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17512786.2012.667279.Scholars have long lamented the ...
Dick, M, Murray Dick
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