We live in a boosterish era that exhorts us to play local and buy local. But what does it mean
to support local media? How should we define local media in the first place? Christopher Ali …

Questions concerning the quality of media performance and the effectiveness of media
policymaking often revolve around the extent to which the media system fulfills the values …

Most research on the effects of media localism regulation starts and stops by linking the site
of broadcast transmissions with content as evaluated at the level of program genre. But …

Ownership has been a longstanding concern in Canadian media policy. In Canada, the
economic forces underlying concentration of ownership have been complicated by a range …

American newspapers have faced competition from new media for over ninety years. Today
digital media challenge the printed word. In the 1920s, broadcast radio was the threatening …

The history of American media is in many ways a history of market failure. Yet these
recurring patterns almost always go unrecognized in mainstream policy discourse. Because …

For more than a century, local journalism has been taken almost for granted. But the twenty-
first century has brought major challenges. The newspaper industry that has historically …

The myth of “the local” powerfully informs American journalism's talk about itself. The term
local has received less scrutiny than other keywords of the profession, such as objectivity …

Britain is presently considering a new media law that will significantly 'deregulate'the media
system. Deregulation in practice in media markets is synonymous with increased …

Over the last 15 years, the acceleration in media consolidation has presented a series of
policy challenges around diversity of editorial output. While policy debates on national …