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Case Studies in Collaborative Local Journalism
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 46 pp.
"This report is based on more than 30 interviews with key figures in high-profile collaborative journalism experiments in three different countries, including journalists as well as senior management, community organisers, data analysts, technical experts, and others. The three primary cases feature
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Building the Bureau Local: A User Guide
Bureau Local (2019), 18 pp.
"The Bureau Local is a collaborative, UK-wide investigative network. It was launched in 2017 to support, reinvigorate and innovate local investigative reporting in the UK. After completing its initial two-year funded experiment, the team is laying out its story, learnings and frameworks for those se
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Journalists' Safety and Multifaceted Censorship in Colombia: An Exploratory Study
International Affairs and Global Strategy, volume 78 (2019), pp. 33-46
"Safety of journalists has been studied as part of freedom of expression. However, there is scarce qualitative research on Colombian regional journalists’ safety. This chapter seeks to address issues surrounding journalists’ safety and censorship in Colombia shedding light on triple menace: the
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Local Media in Brazil: Draining the Newsrooms in the Country’s Poorest Region
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 30 pp.
"In spite of being one of the poorest places in Brazil, Pernambuco has historically had a combative and awarded local media. Until recently, local reporters had been winning the most important national journalism prizes with inspiring local stories and initiatives. This context has been changing dra
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Silencing a Snakehead Fish: A Case Study in Local Media, Rural-Based Activism, and Defamation Litigation in Southern Myanmar
In: Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change
Singapore: ISEAS (2019), pp. 151-176
"My focus in this chapter is on civil society mobilization in Tanintharyi Region in southern Myanmar, and particularly in Kanbauk, a village of about 1,500 households in the Tanintharyi Hills, eighty kilometres north of the regional capital, Dawei. In recent years, Kanbauk villagers have contended w
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Losing the News: The Decimation of Local Journalism and the Search for Solutions
New York: PEN America (2019), 114 pp.
"Local news plays a fundamental role in our democracy, fostering civic engagement and holding government officials and corporations accountable. Its collapse represents a national crisis of such scale and significance that it necessitates philanthropists, private companies, government regulators, la
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The Protection of Citizen Journalists During Armed Conflicts
In: The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), pp. 267-278
"Digital technologies are changing the way in which journalism is performed. Today, reports by citizen journalists (CJs) are extremely relevant when traditional journalists cannot access hostile and dangerous areas. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 90% of murdered reporters were lo
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Atlas da notícia
Projor (2017)
"O Atlas da Notícia é uma iniciativa para mapear veículos produtores de notícias – especialmente de jornalismo local – no território brasileiro. Identificamos e mapeamos veículos que publicam, mesmo que só esparsamente, notícias de interesse público – sejam impressos ou digitais – e
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Division in the Land of ‘the Unspoken’: Examining Journalistic Practice in Contemporary New Caledonia
MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, volume 33, issue 62 (2017), pp. 52-71
"While the Kanaks’ pro-independence protests against French settlers have been extensively documented in the global media and academic literature, another protest – more subtle and diffused, but deeply embedded – is now taking place in New Caledonia (South Pacific) to decide whether to remain
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Where Are We Now? UK Hyperlocal Media and Community Journalism in 2015
Cardiff University, Centre for Community Journalism; Nesta (2015), 36 pp.
"There are more than 400 active hyperlocal websites in the UK, compared with 1,045 local papers. New sites are being uncovered by researchers on a daily basis. One in ten say they use local community websites or apps at least weekly (7 per cent in 2013). 17 per cent of UK internet users use websites
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Local News in a Digital Age
Pew Research Center (2015), 159 pp.
"This report was produced by the Pew Research Center and aims at understanding the news ecology of three distinct metropolitan areas in the United States: Denver, Colorado; Macon, Georgia; and Sioux City, Iowa. Data in this report are drawn from separate analyses, each with its own methodology: a su
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Violencia y periodismo regional en México
México: Juan Pablos Editor (2015), 458 pp.
"La temporalidad del presente estudio comprende el periodo 2006-2015, que corresponde a los sexenios de Felipe Calderón Hinojosa y una parte del de Enrique Peña Nieto, periodo en el que, según muestran los informes de agencias nacionales e internacionales, la violencia contra los periodistas en e
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Journalisme radio: Conseils pour la pratique en Afrique subsaharienne
Key Guides
Nogent-sur-Marne: Groupe de recherche et d’échanges technologiques (GRET) (2015), 248 pp.
"Préparer une émission de radio, rechercher l’info pertinente, savoir la traiter et la mettre en forme dans le respect des règles de la profession, afin d’attirer l’attention de son auditoire et de l’informer au plus près de sa réalité : tout un art qui s’apprend certes dans les éco
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Preventive Journalism as a Means of Controlling Regional Media in Russia
Global Media and Communication, volume 10, issue 1 (2014), pp. 35-52
"This article utilizes new institutional theory and its principle – coercive isomorphism – to examine explicit and implicit pressures exerted on news organizations by a regional government in Russia in 2009 and 2010. The study found that while empowering regional reporters by the myth of helping
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Brauchen wir Zeitungen? Zehn Gründe, warum die Zeitungen untergehen. Und zehn Vorschläge, wie dies verhindert werden kann
Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2014), 244 pp.
"Die Tageszeitungen stecken in der Krise. Neben dem Rückgang der Verkaufsauflagen und den Einbrüchen bei den Werbeerlösen prägen auch der Besitzerwechsel bei Verlagen und Zeitungstiteln sowie der kräftige Abbau an journalistischem Personal den aktuellen Trend in der Zeitunsgbranche. Viele Medie
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Mobile Community Reporting: A Grassroots Perspective on Journalism
Leiden: Sidestone Press (2014), 144 pp.
"In this book, the author presents what he calls the 'Mobile Community Reporting' approach based on a six-year training experiment [of the Voices of Africa Media Foundation] in which he was involved as trainer and coach in eight African countries. The main argument underlying the MCR approach is the
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