Introduction: demarcating the field of local media and journalism

1. Historicising the afterlife: local newspapers in the United Kingdom and the ‘art of prognosis’


Rachel Matthews


2. A history of the local newspaper in Japan


Anthony S. Rausch


3. Local news deserts in Brazil: historical and contemporary perspectives


Carlos Eduardo Lins da Silva and Angela Pimenta


4. History of local media in Norway


Eli Skogerbø


5. State of play: local media, power and society in the Caribbean


Juliette Marie Storr


6. ‘Peopleization’ of news: the development of the American local television news format


Madeleine Liseblad



Part II - Local media policies


7. The death of broadcast localism in the United States


Christopher Ali


8. Developing local media policies in sub-state nations: the case of Catalonia


Mariola Tarrega and Josep Angel Guimera


9. Local journalism in Australia: policy debates


Kristy Hess and Lisa Waller


10. The development of community broadcasting legislation in Kenya


Rose N. Kimani


11. Local media policies in Poland: key issues and debates


Sylwia M?cfal


12. The impact of communication policies in local television models: the cases of Catalonia and Scotland


Aida Martori Muntsant



Part III - Local media, publics and politics


13. Local journalism in the United States: its publics, its problems, and its potentials


C.W. Anderson


14. Remediating the local through localised news making: India’s booming multilingual press as agent in political and social change


Ursula Rao


15. De-professionalization and fragmentation: challenges for local journalism in Sweden


Gunnar Nygren


16. Central and local media in Russia: between central control and local initiatives


Ilya Kiriya


17. The return of party journalism in China and ‘Janusian’ content: the case of Newspaper X


Jingrong Tong


18. Strategy over substance and national in focus? Local television coverage of politics and policy in the United States


Erika Franklin Fowler


19. From journal of record to the 24/7 news cycle: perspectives on the changing nature of court reporting in Australia


Margaret Simons and Jason Bosland



Part IV - Ownership and sustainability of local media


20. Business and ownership of local media: an international perspective
    Bill Reader and John Hatcher



21. Local media owners as saviours in the Czech Republic: they save money, not journalism
    Lenka Waschkova Cisa?ova



22. What can we learn from independent family-owned local media groups? Case studies from the United Kingdom


Sarah O’Hara


23. Local media in France: subsidized, heavily regulated and under pressure


Matthieu Lardeau


24. ‘I’ve started a hyperlocal, so now what?’


Marco van Kerkhoven


25. The hyperlocal ‘renaissance’ in Australia and New Zealand


Scott Downman and Richard Murray



Part V - Local journalists and journalistic practices


26. At the crossroads of hobby, community work and media business: Nordic and Russian hyperlocal practitioners


Jaana Hujanen, Olga Dovbysh, Carina Tenor, Mikko Gronlund, Katja Lehtisaari and Carl-Gustav Linden


27. Not all doom and gloom: the story of American small-market newspapers


Christopher Ali, Damian Radcliffe and Rosalind Donald


28. Local journalism in Bulgaria: trends from the Worlds of Journalism study


Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova


29. Specialised training of local journalists in armed conflict: the Colombian experience


Yennue Zarate Valderrama


30. From community to commerce? Analytics, audience ‘engagement’ and how local newspapers are renegotiating news values in the age of pageview-driven journalism in the United Kingdom


James Morrison


31. Two-tier tweeting: how promotional and personalised use of Twitter is shaping journalistic practices in the United Kingdom


Lily Canter


32. Centralised and digitally disrupted: an ethnographic view of local journalism in New Zealand


Helen Sissons


33. Situating journalistic coverage: a practice theory approach to researching local community radio production in the United Kingdom


Josephine F. Coleman



Part VI - Communities and audiences of local news


34. What does the audience experience as valuable local journalism? Approaching local news quality from a user’s perspective


Irene Costera Meijer


35. Local journalism and at-risk communities in the United States


Philip M. Napoli and Matthew Weber


36. The emerging deficit: changing local journalism and its impact on communities in Australia


Margaret Simons, Andrea Carson, Denis Muller and Jennifer Martin


37. Strength in numbers: building collaborative partnerships for data-driven community news
    Jan Lauren Boyles



38. Bottom-up hyperlocal media in Belgium: Facebook-groups as collaborative neighborhood awareness systems


Jonas De Meulenaere, Cedric Courtois and Koen Ponnet


39. Local news repertoires in a transforming Swedish media landscape


Annika Bergstrom


40. The what, where, and why of local news in the United States


Angela M. Lee



Part VII - Local media and the public good


41. Local media and disaster reporting in Japan


Florian Meissner and Jun Tsukada


42. Public service journalism and engagement in US hyperlocal nonprofits


Patrick Ferrucci


43. Local public service media in Northern Ireland: the merit goods argument


Phil Ramsey and Philip McDermott


44. Participation in local radio agricultural broadcasts and message adoption among rural farmers in northern Ghana


Adam Tanko Zakariah
45. Pacific Islanders’ talanoa values and public support point the way forward


Shailendra Singh


46. Alternative journalism, alternative ethics?