ISBN:
9781783608201
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (263 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.2091732
Keywords:
Journalism--England--Leeds
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Journalism ; England ; Leeds
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
A radically alternative exploration of news circulation that asks: do we even know what news is?.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- About the contributors -- Introduction: A new news ecology -- Why study news ecologies? -- How we studied a local news ecology -- 1. Making sense of/in the city -- Communicating community -- A place called Leeds -- Leeds: a post-industrial city -- The coexistence of past and future within the news ecology -- 2. A week in news -- News content analysis: approach and sampling -- Broadcast media content analysis: 'And now for the news where you are' -- Reporting the local: celebrating culture and recording crime -- Prominence of 'story topics' -- Who gets to speak? -- Reporting the political -- Local print media analysis: 'At the heart of Leeds' -- Representing a sense of local community -- Campaigning against NHS reforms -- Concluding observations -- 3. How citizens receive the news -- News consumption -- Preferences and evaluations: topics of coverage -- Evaluation and appreciation -- Retrospective assessments -- After the news -- Conclusion: a survey-based picture of the news ecology -- 4. How people make sense of the city -- Local news as word-of-mouth -- The uses of local media -- 5. The mainstream providers of local news -- Who are the mainstream providers of local news? -- At the chalkface: the editorial interviews -- Preferred stories -- Public purposes -- The preferred voice -- Audience -- New media -- From source to mainstream -- Conclusion -- 6. Citizen news-makers and news practices -- Mapping citizen news-makers -- Newsworthiness -- Citizen news practices -- Citizen news-makers in the news ecology -- Conclusion -- 7. 'Down there in Chapeltown' -- Difference, distance, storytelling -- What should news organizations do? -- Unblocking the news ecology: new stories, new practices.
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