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Місцеві ЗМІ за часів нових медіа в усьому світі стикаються з проблемами фінансування, скорочення штатів, падіння накладів та обсягів рекламних ринків. При цьому під загрозою опиняється якість контенту, зокрема скорочується кількість власних повідомлень, що дають змогу аудиторії отримати перевірену інформацію з перших рук. На матеріалі двох найстаріших одеських інтернет-видань («Репортер» та «Думская») за 2005–2014 рр. встановлено, що ці медіа в цілому приділяють мало уваги ексклюзивним повідомленням (середній показник 7 % та 12 % відповідно), а також перевірці інформації на місці події. Схожу картину спостерігаємо і серед місцевих сайтів інших регіонів. Електронні видання найбільше віддають перевагу контенту, який можна швидше обробити: запланованим подіям та передрукам. При цьому під питанням опиняється виконання подібними ЗМІ соціальних функцій, зокрема контролю та критики влади, залучення громадян до справ спільноти тощо.

Much has been written on the issue of digitization and its consequences on journalism. Most works deal with the internet and the transformation of classic journalism into new forms of online communication. Adrian Holovaty identified and described two steps in the old fashioned journalism: The collection of information and the production of newspaper stories for newspaper websites (cf. Holovaty 2006). But as he reasoned in 2006 on his website: “The problem is […], for many types of news and information, newspaper stories don’t cut anymore” (ibid.).
Holger Müller and I presented a possible chance for classic journalism to persist and succeed in the era of digitization: Data Journalism or Data Driven Journalism. The title of our presentation was “Big Data – The last resort for local newspapers?”. We showed a cooperation project of the Institute of Communication Science at University of Bamberg and the local media organization “Fränkischer Tag” which publishes several newspapers in the area of Upper Franconia in the German Bundesland Bavaria.

- by André Haller
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- Local Journalism, Data-Driven Journalism
- by Bilyana Todorova
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- Slavic Languages, Syntax, Newspapers and online journalism, Bulgarian Language

This chapter introduces a research and development journalism project in the second largest city of Germany, Hamburg. Funded by the Google Digital News Initiative, the project aims to strengthen the core functions of local journalism in terms of social cohesion and civic participation by developing innovative storytelling formats for urban reporting that can easily be appropriated by local journalists. In a collaborative setting, journalists, software engineers, UX designers and researchers translate ongoing trends of deep mediatization, shaped by differentiation, connectivity, omnipresence, pace of innovation and datafication, into a location-aware approach to produce, distribute to and engage audiences with local news.

- by Leif Kramp
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- Media Studies, New Media, Journalism, Digital Media

The creation of information online has always placed little emphasis on the region. Yet, the regional component is of vital importance to local news media. In the subnational press, solutions journalism appears to be based on a desire to promote the region and its stakeholders in the columns of regional dailies. Our goal is to examine how the discourse of solutions journalism is a sign of strengthening proximity for the local press, as well as a recomposition of the practices and professional identity of local journalists.
La construction d'une information en ligne n'a été que peu axée sur le territoire. Pourtant, le territoire est une dimension indépassable pour les médias d'information locale. Le journalisme de solutions, dans la presse infranationale, apparaît comme une volonté de valoriser le territoire et ses acteurs dans les colonnes des quotidiens régionaux. Nous nous proposons d'étudier en quoi le discours sur le journalisme de solutions est un signe de renforcement de la proximité pour la presse locale, mais aussi une recomposition des pratiques et de l'identité professionnelle du journaliste localier.

- by amiel Pauline
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- Journalism, Qualitative methodology, Online Journalism, Local press

O presente estudo de caso terá enfoque no jornal local “Notícias de Vila Real”, sediado na cidade de Vila Real e cujo alcance noticioso se foca não só nesta cidade, mas também noutras regiões situadas neste distrito transmontano. Neste estudo foi selecionada a secção “Região”, pretendendo-se perceber, nas notícias desta secção, que tipo de cobertura era dado a outros locais da região, para além de Vila Real. Foi feita uma abordagem descritiva suportada pelas próprias edições deste jornal, de janeiro a março de 2014. A análise dos dados foi feita utilizando o método de análise de conteúdo de Laurence Bardin (2009).

- by Sara Sampaio
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- Journalism, Case Studies, Jornalismo, Case Study
- by Nikos Smyrnaios
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- Digital Media, Digital Journalism, Online Journalism, Local media

La infografía es un elemento gráfico y visual de excelente utilización
en el periodismo, que permite mostrar gráficamente información que con mero texto puede resultar árida o poco comprensible. Habida cuenta del interés académico y didáctico de la misma, el siguiente estudio propone analizar la calidad informativa y visual de las infografías publicadas en agosto de 2017 en los principales diarios impresos de información generalista en el País Vasco, región de gran penetración periodística de España, y durante un mes en que la prensa local e internacional se hizo eco de los trágicos atentados sufridos el
día 17-A en Barcelona por el Estado Islámico. Aplicando el método propuesto por el académico José Luis Valero Sancho de valoración numérica por códigos
binarios para infografía de prensa, se concluye que los periódicos vascos
analizados (El Correo, Diario Vasco, Deia, Gara y Berria) publicaron infografías de mencionable calidad periodística, si bien la misma es directamente proporcional a su alcance y recursos, destacando notoriamente los periódicos de ®Vocento sobre el resto. Queda pues de relieve la calidad informativa y el interés infográfico de los medios locales estudiados, a la vez que se insiste en la viabilidad del método ideado por Valero Sancho.

- by Aitor Castañeda
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- Journalism, Periodismo, Infographics and data visualization, Infographics

Donald Trump’s election exposed structural pathologies in America’s media system. This commentary addresses three broad media failures that combine to imperil democratic society: the news media’s extreme commercialism; Facebook’s proliferation of misinformation; and the crisis of newspaper journalism. I then outline a policy program that can begin to address these structural pathologies.

- by Victor Pickard
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- Critical Theory, American History, Sociology, Cultural Studies

In this report you will be able to read how newsrooms are adapting to address the realities of the journalism industry in 2019. Their experiences, and the solutions they are deploying, are not unique to the Pacific Northwest. We hope that... more

- by Damian Radcliffe and +1
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- Media Studies, New Media, Journalism, Digital Media

To date, Europe hasn’t benefitted from a comprehensive investigation on the current and emerging revenue streams available to hyperlocal publishers, especially with the continued convergence of content and digital technology. This study examines a broad range of
hyperlocal services and pure players from across Europe, to inform hyperlocal publishers about the different methods and strategies available to them, so they can develop a more sustainable and resilient service. It responds directly to recommendations that call for
business models to be ‘further analysed so that lessons learned from these case studies can inspire, and inform entrepreneurs and other publishers’.2 It includes:
• An overview of the hyperlocal ecosystem, including a country-by-country analysis.
• An overview of the different legal business structures available to hyperlocal media
services, including the potential advantages and limitations of these.
• An analysis of current and emerging revenue streams being used by hyperlocal publishers,
with a focus on 35 case studies from Europe.
• An assessment of which of these are most feasible, reliable or lucrative.
• An examination of changes to the wider advertising and online transaction industry.
• Emerging trends and innovations in revenue creation and capture in and beyond Europe.
• Recommendations for policymakers, industry and hyperlocal publishers in relation to gaps,
opportunities and areas of growth.

- by Kathryn Geels and +1
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- Journalism, Organisational Resilience, Business Model, Local Journalism

In recent years, prominent scholars in the field of journalism studies have analysed the production and circulation of local news adopting elements of network theory. These approaches could benefit from Actor-network theory (ANT), which considers social phenomena as network effects. Using (social-)media monitoring and scrapping techniques as well as tools for the visual representation of networks, this paper proposes to map, visualise, and systematically analyse actors involved in local news in Brussels on (social-)media through two controversies : the fate of a single picture depicting a university building’s blocked access during a strike in Belgium & and the evolution of an anti-TTIP motion in a municipality of Brussels. The case studies are the point of departure to discuss ANT’s methodological strengths and weaknesses. The use of ANT as a method has proven to be a fruitful contribution to identify a variety of actors producing content on online (social-)media.

- by Victor Wiard
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- Social Networks, Networks, Social Media, Online Journalism
- by J.L. González-Esteban
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- Online Journalism, Innovation journalism, Local Journalism

Within the ongoing discussion on the role of participation in journalism, this paper proposes to focus on participatory practices in the local context. Drawing from a journalism criticism perspective, it assesses the forms that citizen participation takes in two operations. The first is a non-profit network of citizen online hyperlocal news websites in Brussels (Belgium) called Dewey. The second is a professional weekly freesheet in Stockholm named Södra Sidan. To do so, the material comprises 22 semi-structured interviews as well as observation at both structures. Participation in the two projects is examined through a matrix model consisting of three levels, (1) the local community, (2) the production practices and (3) the local public sphere, as well as three steps, (1) access, (2) dialogue and (3) deliberation, to investigate how citizens are provided possibilities to engage with local news. Though participation is at the heart of both cases, results show that it is performed differently: Dewey is strong in providing access to the project itself as well as to news production in the hopes to empower individuals, whereas Södra Sidan’s approach is more efficient in generating dialogue and deliberation among citizens, hence also influencing how issues are addressed in the local public sphere. This comparison highlights the plurality of forms and meanings that participation adopts in the local context.

- by Laura Ahva and +1
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- Citizen participation, Participatory Journalism, Local Journalism

The growth of hyperlocal media has rekindled the ecosystem of local media in recent years. An international phenomenon, it has already been the subject of much study in the academy, despite it being a recent occurrence. This article deals with the literature review of scientific articles published during the first decade of hyperlocal media research. The results show the keen interest that researchers had early on in this new media model, especially in the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden and Australia where it was studied more intensely. The works published from 2010 to 2020 exhibit an interest in the study of the transformation of the media ecosystem, the mapping and analysis of the characteristics of the media, their organizational and business models, as well as their informative production and the relationship with the audience.

- by Cruz Negreira
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- Journalism, Digital Journalism, Local Journalism, Hyperlocal Journalism

This study builds on previous research that provided a comprehensive analysis of local journalistic output on a large scale, analyzing 100 randomly selected U.S. communities. While that study focused on overall levels of journalistic output, and the question of how community characteristics factor into the health of local news ecosystems, this study
focuses on the types of outlets available in these communities; and how these different types of outlets (TV, radio, newspaper, online-only) differ in terms of their production of local news.

- by Qun Wang
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- Local Journalism

The economic challenges facing local journalism and the associated declines in revenues and newsroom staffs have generated great interest in understanding the composition and dynamics of local news ecosystems. Much of this research has... more

- by Philip Napoli and +2
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- Media Studies, New Media, Journalism, Digital Media

The chapter introduces a socio-geographical concept of metropolitan journalism, taking into account political, economic and cultural factors. It discusses empirical examples from journalism practice in Germany to identify certain patterns of structure-building, news production, news mediation and audience engagement. In so doing, it uses a figurational approach as a heuristic, depicting current transformations of journalism in metropolitan setting. The chapter argues for a differentiation between metropolitan journalism and local journalism. Due to the lack of an elaborated concept for metropolitan journalism in journalism theory, the following considerations draw on general characteristics of metropolitan areas that comprise geographical, administrative, political, economic and socio-demographic factors. On this basis, using the example of the situation of recent developments on Germany’s news market, the chapter discusses how metropolitan journalism develop a capability to shape the overall orientation of journalism practice towards innovation and experimentation with new technologies, forms of expression, organization models, and product development. It is thereby argued that metropolitan journalism functions as an interdisciplinary test field with signal effect for the news industry, and becomes in its broad variety and diversity a nucleus of a figurational transformation of journalism in general.

- by Leif Kramp
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- Communication, Media Studies, Journalism, Digital Journalism

With resources for local journalism outlets on the decline and the use of digital tools on the rise, there has been greater consideration of the audience among journalists, editors, and foundations. This concern with understanding audiences, particularly in efforts to better meet their critical information needs, links back to the civic or public journalism movement of the 1990s as well as the FCC standards set for ascertainment of community needs during the 1970s. Yet, a limited amount of current scholarship addresses a qualitative understanding of local news audiences’ habits and beliefs. Drawing upon data from six focus groups across three communities, this paper highlights three common themes, which we have labeled: a) self-reliant news consumer, b) lack of citizen journalism, and c) continued importance of interpersonal networks. These themes may provide insights into the nature of local news consumers and a guide to avenues for future research.

- by Katie McCollough and +2
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- Journalism, Focus Groups, Audience and Reception Studies, Online Journalism
- by Philip Napoli
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- Media Studies, New Media, Journalism, Mass Communication

Fazer jornalismo de proximidade, e sobretudo através da técnica de reportagem, tem tanto de enriquecedor quan-to de desafiante. É (quase) impossível fazer reportagem, e grande reportagem ainda mais, sem o contacto direto com as fontes, sem o "sentir" do que está a acontecer, sem a observação direta do acontecimento por parte do jornalista, e até mesmo, porque não, sem que o jornalis-ta "entre" no acontecimento. Em reportagem, o repórter, mais do que um apresentador de factos, é um contador de histórias. É assim que gosto de me assumir. E, es-tas histórias, para que sejam bem contadas, precisam do sentir apurado do jornalista, do seu envolvimento no assunto e, ao mesmo tempo, da sua capacidade de narra-ção ética e distanciada. É uma dualidade: envolvimento (emocional até) e, simultaneamente, distanciamento. Este é, sem dúvida, o primeiro grande desafio ao fa-zer-se reportagem. Por isso, além de todas as técnicas jornalísticas necessárias à sua execução, que se podem aprender e melhorar, a reportagem local e de proximi-dade é algo um pouco mais intenso e inato, uma espécie de aptidão que tem de nascer connosco. O segundo grande desafio, e este já em termos de ro-tina produtiva das redações, está relacionado com a necessidade de convencer os editores, muitas vezes alheados do país real e demasiado focados na agenda política nacional. O repórter, que está maioritariamen-te em exteriores, afastado da redação, sendo aquilo que vulgarmente, na gíria, chamamos de "repórter de rua"

No complexo paradigma da relação entre o campo jornalístico e a sociedade democrática, a imprensa regional tem especial importância no contributo para a “regeneração” de um espaço público local, potenciando a capacidade racional e ação cívica dos cidadãos sobre assuntos da res publica. Corresponder às necessidades da opinião civil, no âmbito do dever de cidadania de qualquer jornal, alimentar o mercado das informações a favor do interesse das audiências e captar fatias publicitárias para garantir os negócios é um dos mais desafiantes objetivos atuais e futuros. Também porque a imprensa convencional, seja local ou nacional, já não tem o exclusivo da mediação informativa. Multiplicaram-se as vozes e as narrativas pós-jornalísticas, de que a Internet é mãe, em modelos de comunicação horizontal de muitos para muitos. O que Castells (2007) designa por mass self-communication ao caracterizar a atual network society.
Para manter a força social dos jornais na atual «era hipermoderna em que tudo é concorrencial, prolifera e se multiplica infinitamente» (Lipovetsky, 2010: 31) não basta o discurso de auto legitimação, simplificada em slogans, de que eles, como há duzentos anos, são a única mediação confiável para a sociedade civil (Gomes, 2009). A nova paisagem não constitui uma ameaça para a imprensa. Pelo contrário, representa oportunidades para dinâmicas integradoras de modelos dialógicos de ação comunicativa descentralizada e participativa. A ideia de uma cidadania ativa1 e o alcance de uma sociedade civil cidadã depende também de uma imprensa regional
ativa e dinâmica.

This article‟s objective is to compare the self-regulation systems of the journalistic profession in Austria, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, France and Poland. From the analysis of several cases and the situation in these seven countries, several items are compared: the existence of ethical codes, of readers‟ and viewers‟ ombudspersons, of press and audiovisual councils, as well as the level of associations and trade unions in the journalistic profession. The results reveal the absences in the European systems as well as steps towards the implementation of self-regulation tools to regulate the journalistic profession, mainly in the field of print and broadcast media. In most of the analyzed European countries, online journalism lacks of self-regulation, except those initiatives which have been implanted in their matrix print or broadcast media.

- by J.L. González-Esteban
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- Journalism Ethics, Local Journalism

La provincia de Guadalajara se ha caracterizado en los años previos a la última crisis económica por tener un gran número de medios de comunicación locales y provinciales. Sin embargo, el cierre de medios de comunicación y el despido de decenas de periodistas, tanto en esta provincia como en el resto del país, han favorecido la creación de nuevos medios digitales gestionados por profesionales de la información. Las herramientas que brinda la llamada web 2.0, el desarrollo de nuevos medios hiperlocales, algunos de ellos muy especializados, y la adecuación a nuevas funciones laborales para los periodistas, está suponiendo un reto para los nuevos periodistas digitales freelance de Guadalalajara. En la presente comunicación se analizarán a través de metodología cualitativa (entrevistas en profundidad y análisis interpretativo de contenido) los principales medios de comunicación digitales que han sido creados por periodistas desde el año 2009 hasta 2013 en la provincia de Guadalajara.

- by María-José Establés
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- Journalism, Periodismo, Ciberjournalism, Ciberperiodismo

THE RAGING CHICKEN PRESS IS “a left/progressive media site devoted to covering and helping build on-the-ground activism and communities of resistance” (Mahoney, 2016). The intersection of this civic need and Communication scholarship has existed under different monikers over the past century, to include alternative media, community media, independent media, and radical media, to name just a few. Because of the inherent
obfuscation of the nature and definition of varying types of “good” and “bad” media, many scholars (Atton, 2002; Meadows, Forde, Ewart, & Foxwell, 2009; Rennie, 2009; Rodríguez, 2001) have determined subcategories of alternative media to try to clarify this delineation. For example, within these typologies, alternative media is understood as fighting oppressive structures; such groups are therefore subversive in nature and take an oppositional stance against the mainstream media and the corporations that own it. Community media is often understood as “endorsing community governance” and trying “to maintain community concerns” by “valuing community expression as a necessary alternative to public service and commercial media” (Rennie, 2009, p. 157). Radical media refers to “media, generally small-scale and in many different forms, that express an alternative vision to hegemonic policies, priorities, and perspectives” (Downing, 2001, p. v). Across these definitions, it is generally accepted that small-scale media groups seek to open dialogue with and dissent from larger, dominant power systems while creating internal organizational configurations that flatten hierarchical power structures, thus creating more democratic processes. As I learned from our conversations, Raging Chicken Press traverses all these categories, for it is a regional media source that is dedicated to questioning power structures and building democratic practices within local communities.

- by Cindy Vincent
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- Media Activism, Civic Media, Local Journalism

The article presents and illustrates the substantial changes that occurred in local media in Poland during the social and political transformation. The authors begin with the outline of tendencies in the development of local media after 1989, presenting the factors that promoted changes in this segment of the media, and identifying the main phases of transformations in local media. Local press is the segment of local media that changed the most: in the 1990s, the number of local titles grew rapidly, and their circulations dropped, publishing companies were diversified, and new types of local press appeared. The development and changes in the market of electronic media were connected with the process of granting licences by the National Broadcasting Council, the expansion of commercial broadcasters, and the progressing process of ownership consolidation. Local radio prevailed over local television in the transformation period. There were also changes in the group of local journalists: their number grew rapidly, local editorial teams became younger, and journalists had lower education levels and less professional preparation.

- by Monika Kornacka-Grzonka
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- Local media, Political Transformation, Local Journalism

The public interest value of news is often viewed through the prism of its relationship to democracy. In this respect news should act as: a source of accurate and plural information for citizens; a watchdog on elites; a mediator and/or representative of communities; and as an advocate of the public in campaigning terms. All of these roles are under pressure in the United Kingdom’s commercial local news sector. This has led many to speculate, often without evidence, that the output of a new generation of (mainly online) hyperlocal citizen news producers might (at least partially) play some of these roles. To test this assumption, we completed 34 semi-structured interviews with producers, the largest content analysis to date of UK hyperlocal news content (1941 posts on 313 sites), and the largest ever survey of UK community news practitioners (183 responses). We found that these sites produce a good deal of news about community activities, local politics, civic life and local business. Official news sources get a strong platform, but the public (local citizens, community groups) get more of a say than in much mainstream local news. Although there was little balanced coverage in the traditional sense, many community journalists have developed alternative strategies to foster and inform plural debate around contentious local issues. The majority of hyperlocal news producers cover community campaigns and a significant minority have initiated their own. We also found that critical public-interest investigations are carried out by a (surprisingly) large number of community news producers.

- by Jerome Turner and +1
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- Online Journalism, Hyperlocal News, Local Journalism

Our article aims to explore how the emergence of independent journalism could reconfigure local news. Our field research, carried out from January to April 2013, focuses on two news-based websites in Toulouse: Carré d’infos and LibéToulouse. The results of our research show how newcomers to the world of independent journalism are struggling to maintain their business. A business which is even more precarious than that of their national counterparts, also highlighting the low number of readers and limited exposure they get within the local public space. However, our study has shown that these new players concentrate on field reporting, covering issues that mainstream media often does not and, in particular, cherishing their independence from local politics and economics.

- by Nikos Smyrnaios
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- Digital Media, Online Journalism, France, Toulouse

Climate activists and environmental communicators stress that addressing the climate crisis requires both global and local advocacy for transformational change-making. While journalists in small, rural communities are known to actively advocate on issues for the common good, there has been little investigation of local media advocacy on climate change in rural Australia: a region at the forefront of global heating. This paper analyses the accounts of local journalists of their media coverage of the School Strikes 4 Climate in rural and regional Australia, as an empirical entry point for a conceptual discussion of local media advocacy in reporting climate change. We find that normative ideas about journalism coupled with polarised community views on climate change hindered these journalists from taking an advocacy stance. We explore and critique the tacit 'quiet advocacy' practices used by these journalists reporting on climate in rural and regional Australia.

- by Eve Mayes
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- Climate Change, Youth activism, Common Good, Advocacy

Resumo: O artigo busca compreender como os desertos de notícia, cidades sem um veículo independente de jornalismo, no Sul do Brasil suprem a demanda de informações locais, sem uma cobertura genuinamente jornalística, por meio da identificação de iniciativas de produção noticiosa nesses locais. Para alcançarmos esse objetivo realizamos pesquisa exploratória, pesquisa bibliográfica e nos inspiramos na análise de conteúdo para quantificar a produção informativa nessas cidades. Para um melhor entendimento do jornalismo de interior, utiliza-se de autores como Dornelles (2010, 2012), Assis (2013), Deolindo (2016) e Santos (2019) para o embasamento do trabalho. Entre as considerações, destacamos a existência de iniciativas feitas pelos moradores, a falta de apuração própria nas cidades e a pouca cobertura de assuntos em âmbito local, o que sustentam que as regiões analisadas são desertos de notícia.

- by Anna Carolina Furlanetto
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- Localism, Journalism Studies, Local Journalism, Jornalismo Local

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 effectively those institutions can continue to perform normative functions of journalism. One of those is to report on the courts. Through analysis of 22 semi-structured interviews with local newspaper reporters who cover the courts beat, agency court reporters who supply the local press, as well as broadcast journalists involved in both local and national court coverage, this paper helps to establish how the daily newswork of court journalists has developed amid a turbulent period in journalism, especially local journalism. The research finds that court reporting has been less affected than other news beats but faces a series of challenges related to financial cuts and other pressures. While the local press has become even more essential to the provision of court reporting, a central part of the news media’s fourth estate role, those challenges affect the ability of court reporters to perform this function. This paper recommends that policymakers consider using a form of public funding to guarantee the future of court reporting at the local level.

- by Richard Jones
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- Journalism, Courts, Newswork, Journalism Studies

For Cuba, the revolution led by Fidel Castro that ousted the government of Dictator Fulgencio Batista in January of 1959 meant the establishment of Communism on the island. For the media landscape, the result was that by 1965 the entire media system became socially administered, publicly owned, and regulated and controlled by the state apparatus. This government-controlled system of media has continued to the present day. The penetration of new technologies, including the Internet, Web and other content circulation practices like el paquete, a bundle of content delivered to subscribers through USB keys, as well as a key speech by Raúl Castro in 2010, however, have sparked change. Since 2012 more than twenty media outlets that are outside of government ownership, operation, or affiliation are producing news about Cuba for Cubans. This paper explores Cuba’s newly emerging independent media, the conceptions of early innovators and producers of these media, and, more broadly, an evolving Cuban media landscape.

- by Mariela Morales
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- Multiculturalism, Journalism, Mass Communication, Civic Journalism

Os jornais impressos deparam-se atualmente com novas e interativas tecnologias de informação, produção, transmissão e consumo de notícias. Este novo paradigma levou o jornalismo impresso a dialogar com novas mídias e contribuiu para a formação e “evolução” do que hoje se denomina webjornalismo. No entanto, este artigo busca demonstrar por meio do estudo de caso do jornal Gazeta de Riomafra e do portal Click Riomafra, que estas potencialidades tecnológicas propaladas por muitos, ainda está longe de ser efetiva nos veículos do interior. Diversos webjornais ainda encontram-se na fase do hipertextual básico e subutilizam ou não utilizam recursos digitais, como a multimidialidade e a interatividade.

- by Rafael Kondlatsch
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- Communication, Online Journalism, Webjournalism, Local Journalism

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- by İhsan GÜLÜŞ
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- Journalism, Local Journalism, çadır, Yerel Basın
- by María-José Establés
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- Journalism, Periodismo, Ciberjournalism, Ciberperiodismo

viCtor WiarD ReSIC Université libre de Bruxelles & Vrije Universiteit Brussels Belgium vwiard@ulb.ac.be P articipatory journalism refers to a variety of discourses and practices implicating the active role of audiences and citizens in news production and dissemination processes (Borger et al., 2103; Carpentier, 2015; Domingo et al., 2008; Paulussen et al., 2007; Wall, 2017). Participation is not a new concept (e.g., Pateman, 1970) and a citizen participation tradition already existed within the mass media framework (Christians et al., 2009: 25). Notions such as community journalism (Reader and Hatcher, 2012) and public journalism (Haas, 2007) can be seen as predecessors of digital participatory journalism. The notion has, however, gained more popularity as well as new layers of meaning over the past decade, especially due to possibilities offered by digitalization (Kreiss & Brennen, 2016).

- by Victor Wiard
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- Citizen participation, Participatory Journalism, Local Journalism

A pesquisa em torno dos media de proximidade, sejam eles de âmbito regional, local, hiperlocal ou até comunitário, tem suscitado um interesse crescente nos anos mais recentes, por parte da comunidade académica. Após um período de discursos em torno da globalização, potenciados pelo desenvolvimento tecnológico, mas sobretudo pelo aparecimento da Internet, a tendência agora parecer ser a de apelar a um retorno ao local. Na essência deste retorno está o reconhecimento da importância de (re)visitar territórios e comunidades e (re)descobrir identidades. Para tal é preciso parar, olhar e voltar a olhar, dialogar, conhecer. E ler. Este livro, que reúne alguns dos trabalhos apresentados na Local Media Fal{l} School (19-21 setembro de 2019, UBI) é um singelo contributo nesse sentido.

- by Pedro Jerónimo
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- Digital Media, Podcasting, Media Management, Social Media

This paper investigates the professional profile of local journalists in Antalya. Local journalists are very important agents of social change, which has obvious local and global issues. Although Antalya is regarded as the cosmopolitan capital of Turkish tourism, current standing of local media environment is not satisfactory. There are more than 20 local newspapers in Antalya, but total circulation is very low and newspapers are noticeably dependent on official advertisements. This dependency predictably results in the insufficiency of public criticism on local political affairs. Local advertisers on the other hand are hesitant to utilize the possible potentials of Antalya media. This creates the continual lack of finance for most media enterprises. All these negative circumstances are more gravely evident in a global touristic hotspot. A questioner, applied to 100 Antalya local journalists reveals the basic characteristics of local journalists in Antalya. Additionally, 20 local media-related people are interviewed on Antalya media. This paper presents the findings from these data. It is found that the local media problems in a global cosmopolitan city are not much different than other cities in Turkey. Furthermore, we can argue that local media problems are not merely local, most of these problems are closely related to global media problems. Therefore, local media problems require global political economy perspectives for further analysis.

- by Ümit Atabek
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- Communication, Media Studies, Journalism, Glocalization
- by Nikos Smyrnaios
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- Journalism, Digital Journalism, Online Journalism, Local media

ABSTRACT
Digital environments play a central role in the news-making process. Seeking new ways to interact with people previously seen as the audience is a big challenge for media and journalists today, especially in local contexts, where journalists are more embedded in the community, physically and digitally, namely through social media and from mobile devices. This study intends to identify how local journalists are using digital tools in their routines, especially when it comes to be close and engaged with communities. To do so, a survey was applied to a sample of journalists (n = 107) from 42 newsrooms from the central region of Portugal, which gathers the most significant presence of local media. Findings point to full integration of the Internet into local journalists’ routines as well as social media and mobile. Digital technologies are used essentially for newsgathering and to get in touch with sources. Employing social media to engage with the community is true only for a few. The same happens when it comes to recognizing or even incorporating content produced by citizens. Local journalists are not always so available to be close to the public as they usually claim.

O artigo busca identificar quais as fontes de informação que os moradores de cidades desertos de notícias, locais sem um veículo independente de jornalismo, segundo o Atlas da Notícia, utilizam para se informar. Como procedimentos metodológicos foram utilizadas as pesquisas exploratória, bibliográfica e questionários. O trabalho trata do Jornalismo de Interior, do conceito de proximidade e dos desertos de notícias. Os autores que sustentam a pesquisa são Dornelles (2010), Assis (2013), Deolindo (2016) e Ota (2006). Destacamos como considerações a forte presença das mídias sociais digitais, a presença das administrações municipais com fontes e a falta de profundidade nos conteúdos.

- by Anna Carolina Furlanetto
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- Local Journalism, Desertos de notícias, Fontes De Notícia