This study examines how local journalists can be identified as semi-professionals in the
independent, hyperlocal UK news sector by identifying and framing their labour against a …

Hyperlocal journalism, usually produced by non-professionals operating on a shoe-string
budget, is sometimes viewed as the potential savior of local journalism and at least a partial …

This paper investigates the origin stories of local journalism entrepreneurs in the UK, based
on 57 in-depth interviews and a survey of 116 practitioners, carried out in 2020–2021. In …

This chapter sets out how the debate on the value of hyperlocal journalism in the UK has
drawn on a series of overlapping discourses to explain the value of these emergent online …

Since the early 2000s, a largely Internet-based network of independent news operations has
emerged focused on small geographic areas in the UK, often run by non-professional …

Hyperlocal Journalism fills a long-standing gap in the literature about hyperlocal news
provision and provides useful insights into how these new local media forms operate in the …

This essay hinges on one crucial question: What should the future of the journalism industry
look like? I pull from my personal experiences and observations as a student journalist, as …

A paradigm shift may be taking place in the practices and outlook of local journalism. As
dominant corporate bodies retreat from localities and communities, new enterprises are …

In recent years, a new wave of hyperlocal community news websites has developed in the
United Kingdom (UK), with many taking advantage of new opportunities provided by free …

This thesis adopts a little used subcultural lens for a qualitative investigation of selective UK
independent hyperlocal publishers. Drawing on the biographical tradition of Robert Park of …