No People, No News: News Deserts and Areas at Risk in Spain
Media and Communication, 2023 In recent decades Spain has suffered a gradual process of depopulation and exodus from rural areas to large capitals. The España Vaciada political and social movement denounces the country’s territorial inequality, while the government is working on a ...
María-Cruz Negreira-Rey +2 more
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No Media, No Voters? The Relationship between News Deserts and Voting Abstention
Social Sciences, 2023 Local journalism has suffered major transformations as traditional business models collapse and habits of news consumption change. A lack of funding and successive economic crises have brought about, on a global scale, the shutdown of many news outlets ...
Giovanni Ramos +2 more
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An evaluation of online information acquisition in US news deserts [PDF]
Scientific ReportsA growing concern is that as local newspapers disappear, communities lose trusted gatekeepers and develop information voids, creating openings for misinformation to thrive.
Kevin T. Greene +4 more
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Deserted Local News: Exploring News Deserts From a Journalistic Recruitment Perspective
Media and Communication, 2023 An emerging body of research addresses how news deserts cause democratic deficits. This literature is mostly concerned with the closure of local news outlets.
Ragnhild Kr. Olsen, Birgit Røe Mathisen
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A Computational Mapping of Online News Deserts on African News Websites
Media and Communication, 2023 To date, the study of news deserts, geographic spaces lacking local news and information, has largely focused on countries in the Global North, particularly the United States, and has predominantly been interested in the causes and consequences of the ...
Dani Madrid-Morales +2 more
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Sourcing Local Information in News Deserts
Journalism and Media(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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Places and Spaces Without News: The Contested Phenomenon of News Deserts
Media and Communication, 2023 News deserts have gained prominence both in academic literature and policy discussions about local news in recent years. Although there is no agreed definition of the term, it usually refers to the lack of or diminishing availability, access, or use of ...
Agnes Gulyas +2 more
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News Deserts: A Research Agenda for Addressing Disparities in the United States
Media and Communication, 2023 News deserts are spread unevenly across the US, with as much as a fifth of the country’s population handicapped by a lack of access to critical news and information. There is a prodigious amount of recent research outlining the consequences for democracy.
Penelope Muse Abernathy
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A Discursive Evolution: Trade Publications Explain News Deserts to United States Journalists
Media and Communication, 2023 Although diminishing newsrooms—and gaping holes in community news coverage—have been acknowledged in the US for over a decade, the term “news desert” did not widely emerge in discourse among industry professionals to refer to places that lacked news ...
Patrick Ferrucci +3 more
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Local News Deserts in China: The Role of Social Media and Personal Communication Networks
Media and Communication, 2023 The field of local news is often associated with news deserts, commonly defined as geo-based communities without newspapers or other legacy media as providers of locally oriented news and civic information.
Zixue Tai, Bai He, Jianping Liu
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