Media coverage of politics is widely considered essential to political participation. However,
studies on local elections do not yet generally take the effect of the media environment into …

Menschliches Leben ist aus vielerlei Gründen spannend. Man könnte die Gründe aus
unzähligen Perspektiven, Disziplinen und Diskussionssträngen zusammenführen. Es gibt …

La despoblación se ha constituido como un problema público en España. Sin embargo, en
la literatura científica todavía no se ha prestado suficiente atención a este fenómeno desde …

Local news media are seen as key to local democracy and communal cohesion. This article
asks how the community role of local journalism is understood and assessed by journalists …

Coping with misinformation in a media environment is one of the challenges that undermine
the role of the media. The pandemic of Covid-19 influenced the media organisations in their …

At a time when local journalism is under threat, regional newsrooms can play a crucial role
in working with communities to confront shameful truths and profound failures. The regional …

Die vorliegende Arbeit ist am Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienforschung
der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München entstanden, sie wurde im Oktober 2015 als …

The decline of local journalism, which has lost resources and influence, is reflected in
phenomena such as “news deserts” that are increasingly prevalent worldwide. A recent …

Within the context of a high-choice, digital media environment, this study explores how
people in their early adulthood perceive the value of news from the small town where they …

With its diverse landscape of regional and local news media, Switzerland seems far from
being a news desert. However, the centralization of editorial offices following the economic …