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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Saving Community Journalism: The Path to Profitability
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (2014), 254 pp.
"Examining experiences at a wide variety of community papers – from a 7,000-circulation weekly in West Virginia to a 50,000-circulation daily in California and a 150,000-circulation Spanish-language weekly in the heart of Chicago – "Saving Community Journalism" is designed to help journalists an
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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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"In summary, the findings show that more than half of the analysed newspapers do in fact seek to expose potential wrong doings of government and business and as such are important actors in promoting local accountability. Yet, the findings also show that a lot of the reporting is not as extensive, a
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Journalism in a Complicated Place: The Role of Community Journalism in South Africa
Community Journalism, volume 2, issue 1 (2013), pp. 49-67
"In South Africa, a fledgling democratic republic is making concerted efforts to foster media that will help to overcome a history of oppression based on difference. A qualitative analysis of interviews with 62 respondents found that the community journalists see themselves as community educators wh
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Nonprofit Journalism: A Growing But Fragile Part of the U.S. News System
Washington, DC: Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism (2013), 25, 23 pp.
"The growing nonprofit news sector is showing some signs of economic health, and most leaders of those outlets express optimism about the future, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center. But many of these organizations also face substantial challenges to their long-term financial well-be
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