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Meeting the Revenue Challenge: Philanthropy's Role in Local News Growth
Philadelphia, PA: Wyncote Foundation (2026), 32 pp.
"Starting in February 2025, we set out to identify and examine success stories among local news groups, where success was sustainability in business operations, even if that term has a range of interpretations. We reasoned that the experiences of these successful organizations might carry predictive
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Lückenfüller: Was kommt, wenn die Lokalzeitung geht?
Berlin: Netzwerk Recherche (2026), 77 pp.
"Die Autoren des Reports, Thomas Schnedler und Malte Werner, analysieren am Beispiel der Region Greiz im thüringischen Vogtland, welche Folgen der Bedeutungsverlust der Lokalzeitung hat. Sie haben im Dialogprojekt „Lückenfüller – Leben ohne Zeitung?“ mit 50 Bürger:innen in der Region darü
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The Local News Playbook: Creating Value for a Sustainable Future
Deep Insights
London; Miami: FT Strategies; Knight Foundation (2026), 105 pp.
"Drawing on global interviews with newsroom leaders, a cross-market survey of exemplary organisations, and FT Strategies’ work with more than 1,000 media businesses worldwide, the playbook identifies the core drivers that distinguish financially sustainable, community-rooted local news. It reframe
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Reconceptualising Multilingualism on African Radio: Language and Identity
Deep Insights
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), 262 pp.
"This book redefines multilingualism via the concept of radio in Africa. Africa presents unique challenges of lingual diversity which the media still struggles to accommodate, particularly when it comes to indigenous languages. Contributors argue that the linguistic realities of African radio reflec
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Cines de pequeña escala: nuevas estéticas, prácticas y plataformas en la región andina
Quito: Editorial El Conejo; Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar Ecuador (2025), 363 pp.
"Este libro examina el surgimiento de los cines de pequeña escala en los Andes, que abarcan las periferias digitales de Ecuador, Bolivia, Perú y Colombia. Analiza críticamente las prácticas audiovisuales heterogéneas y los agentes subalternos, dilucidando las tensiones, contradicciones y resist
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Interactive Radio Shows and the Role of New Information Brokers in the Republic of Benin
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 14, issue 2 (2024), 21 pp.
"This study investigates interactive forms of public communication in the Republic of Benin (West Africa) with a specific focus on the emergence of new media actors. Benin’s media landscape features a variety of media formats, which are constantly incorporating interactive elements. These developm
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Transforming Crises Into Opportunities: Self-Managed Media in Argentina
Media and Communication, volume 12, issue 7455 (2024), 17 pp.
"The current situation for journalism in Argentina represents a great challenge due to the continuous economic changes linked to inflation and labour precariousness. Faced with this, a phenomenon known as self-managed media has grown over the recent years, also connected to recovered media that prom
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Press Forward: A Guide for Local Funders
Press Forward (2024), 23 pp.
"Press Forward aims to grow the overall investment in local news and strengthen communities across the country over the next five years by focusing on such shared values as equity, accessibility, collaboration and centering community needs. The vision of the founding coalition is to increase resourc
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"Homeless media refers to news outlets that initially distributed information solely through social media, with the majority of them now based on Instagram. Nowadays, as our findings suggest, homeless media outlets have emerged as an important source of local news, referred to for their quick update
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Community newspapers in Zimbabwe and the phenomenon of the citizen journalist-cum-professional journalist: Rethinking a concept
Journal of Alternative & Community Media, volume 9, issue 2 (2024), pp. 197-216
"This article interrogates the phenomenon of citizen journalism in Zimbabwean community newspapers’ production processes. It questions the distinction between citizen journalism and professional journalism and calls for a rethink of ‘citizen journalism’ in the Zimbabwean context. Data were gat
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"First of all, following a reform in 2020 that reorganised Ukraine’s districts, merging many of them to form larger ones, the situation on the map is not critical. There are indeed "unhealthy districts", but the overall situation is better than it could be. With the exception of the temporarily oc
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Local media: Surviving and thriving in a news desert Lessons learned from Local Media for Democracy
Deep Insights
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS); Local Media for Democracy (LM4D) (2024), 59 pp.
"The Local Media for Democracy (LM4D) programme was conceived and designed to achieve exactly that: to recognise and strengthen local media operating in news deserts and to provide local communities with the timely, accurate, and relevant information they need to make informed decisions about what m
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"Key findings: Critical role of local media in addressing specific population needs, compared with national media which is increasingly seen as painting a false picture of reality. Audiences on the frontline feel excluded from national discourse. Ukrainians (57%) use local Telegram channels more tha
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Uncovering news deserts in Europe: Risks and opportunities for local and community media in the EU
Deep Insights
San Domenico di Fiesole (Italy): European University Institute (2024), 224 pp.
"This research is focused on detecting challenges and opportunities for local and community media and identifying news deserts in the 27 EU Member States. It entails a holistic approach towards the concept of news desert, interpreting it as an area that is lacking sufficient, reliable and diverse in
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Local Journalism and its Audience
Journalism, volume 25, issue 12 (2024), pp. 2543-2563
"The study [conducted in Denmark] distinguishes three audience categories: non-paying, potential-paying, and paying. While all prioritise informative content, paying audiences emphasise symbolic and emotional values, seeking a sense of belonging and personally meaningful content. Non-paying audience
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Lokaljournalismus im Internetzeitalter: Zur Bedeutung lokaler Kommunikation in einer globalen Medienwelt
München: UVK Verlag (2024), 280 pp.
"Das Internet bietet Printmedien neue Perspektiven. Um auf dem digitalen Markt erfolgreich zu sein, muss sich speziell die lokale Tageszeitung neu erfinden. Norbert Jonscher führt praxisnah in die Besonderheiten des Lokaljournalismus ein. Dabei legt er besonderes Augenmerk auf die Herausforderungen
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Contradições convergentes: Estratégias do radiojornalismo local no interior de Santa Catarina
Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias de la Comunicación, volume 22, issue 44 (2023), pp. 342-352
"Este artigo tem por objetivo identificar de que maneira a tecnologia pode afetar a produção radiojornalística local. Para isso, realizou-se a análise sistemática do programa RBV Notícias da cidade de Videira (SC) durante dez dias do ano de 2021. Como resultados, observou-se que o programa RBV
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