This book explores ways in which the increasingly 'measurable'news audience has had an
impact on journalistic practices, in an era when digital platforms provide real-time …

This study takes a supply-side inhabited institutional perspective on journalism innovation
by looking at the roles played by varied field-level actors, or meta-organizations, that inhabit …

The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 had an immediate and far-reaching
impact on newspaper publishing in regional Australia. Scores of publications around the …

In this paper, we report on the challenges that Chinese local news outlets face in the
absence of independent newspapers and radio stations, the underfunding and under …

Local newspapers have traditionally provided local publics with a reliable source of news, a
champion to shout about their needs and campaign on their behalf, and a watchdog to hold …

Participatory journalism refers to a variety of discourses and prac-tices implicating the active
role of audiences and citizens in news production and dissemination processes (Borger et …

Little research has examined how local TV newsrooms determine the type and scope of
technological innovation they will embrace. Given the importance of local TV news in …

This study examines the democratic contribution of hyperlocal media in Sweden in an
electoral context. A quantitative content analysis of digital news material is used to examine …

Local journalism in the UK has been described as being in “crisis”. Local newspapers have
experienced years of declining circulations and staff cuts, leading to questions about how …

This study analyzed print journalists' perceptions of source use during the 2014 US midterm
elections. Rank-order measures required journalists to compare five prevalent source types …