Local Journalism in a Digital World

Hess, Kristy; Waller, Lisa

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-50478-4

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“…Newman et al, 2019). The local political coverage provided by small publishers could also help explain why audiences seem to trust and value their local news sources (Costera Meijer & Bijleveld, 2016;SSB, 2018), arguably making local publishers 'keystone' media (Nielsen, 2015) in local public spheres serving local democracy (Hess & Waller, 2016). However, printoriented local newspapers are predominantly read by older audiences.…”

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Journalism and the political structure

2019

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This article assumes a media system perspective on the local news media structure in Norway, using a dataset of 847,487 news articles collected from 156 Norwegian news outlets in 2015–2017. Using a series of hypotheses, the analysis uses Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modelling to ascertain to what extent local journalism meets community information needs through infrastructure, output and performance. The analysis finds that the size of the publisher and the size of the community covered matter more for hard news coverage than regulatory factors. To that end, the results indicate that the Norwegian local media system is somehow shaped by the geography of the political landscape. The results and their contributions are discussed in light of media systems theory and local journalism structures.

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Journalism and the political structure

2019

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“…At the root of much work on social life, Bourdieu's (1989Bourdieu's ( , 1990) work on social spaces or fields can explicate how journalism both shapes and is shaped by society and embodied practices associated with news (i.e. Benson and Neveu 2005;Hess and Waller 2017;Robinson 2017). Journalism studies scholars-even Bourdieu himself (see Bourdieu 1998)-often focus on the relationship between journalists and other elite actors or the internal logics of the journalistic field (Benson and Neveu 2005;Schultz 2007;Willig 2012).…”

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“…journalism and the relationship to nationalism/localism in Western democracies such as Brexit and the rise of Donald Trump). Relatedly, a concept such as "community" has for too long been a taken-for-granted assumption in journalism research, especially at the local level (Gutsche and Salkin 2016;Hess and Waller 2017), as though the idea operates within single interpretations of geographic territory or a single homogenous group. In the end, this approach provides little scope to acknowledge unevenness, diversity, and contestation inherent in practices and inquiries of boundary work.…”

Section: Journalism and Collective Identity: Boundaries Via Myth And mentioning

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“…Consider, for example, the changing nature of Facebook "buy, sell and swap" pages that serve geographic areas across the globe. Many of these pages have come to resemble digital versions of early twentieth-century newspapers (Hess and Waller 2017), providing a platform not only for individuals to sell their wares, but to feature a variety of posts from those desperately searching for lost animals and objects, to messages of thank you, acknowledging random acts kindness among strangers, or announcing births and marriages. Such "news" content is often given short shrift within the journalism academy, yet this communication highlights the value that the social dimension of news plays in our everyday lives and the role journalism might reassess or re-assert in the digitial age.…”

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Journalism and the “Social Sphere”

Hess

Gutsche

2017

Journalism Studies

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This article realigns the field of journalism studies to acknowledge within itself the multiple dimensions of social life and, as well, to provide greater clarity on the social and cultural forms and functions of journalism. It reclaims the importance of the "social sphere" as a key foundational concept for journalism studies with its links to collective identity, sociability, social honour, and soft coercion. We argue the relevance of the social sphere has been subsumed over time by the dominance of the "public sphere" and, most recently, has been considered synonymous with the rise of social networking platforms and tools. Here, we recommend that scholarship shifts from the dominant influence of political theory in explanations of journalism's societal function to the value of critical cultural sociology, which reconciles power with the basic human desire for social order within individual-institutional-cultural interactions informed by and through journalism.

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“…Norway is one of the most digitally advanced and diverse countries in the world, with 97 per cent of the population having internet access and 74 per cent of the population having access to tablets (Vaage, 2018). The more than 200 newspapers play important democratic roles as information sources, mediators of belonging and identity and arenas for public discourse (Hess & Waller, 2017 ). Pressured by falling print circulation and a decline in advertising revenues, most newspapers have rolled out some variation of paywalls within a few years (Olsen & Solvoll, 2018).…”

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Digital payments for a digital generation

Kristensen

Solvoll

2019

Nordic Journal of Media Studies

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Digitalization is both a major cause of the challenges now faced by several media industries and a source of their potential solutions. Within the book and newspaper industries, the value of the physical product is about to be surpassed by that of digitally delivered content, disrupting the distribution system that these industries have relied on for many decades. In particular, digital distribution has radically changed the way in which consumers engage in unpaid and paid media consumption.Anchored in the notion of disruptive innovation, and more specifically related to the idea of distribution as disruptive technology, our study investigates Generation Z’s unpaid and paid consumption of digital books and online local newspapers. Drawing on two Norwegian audience surveys, we find that both industries involve at least one disruptive actor. Generation Z relies heavily on Facebook as a distribution channel for news. Pay-walls have a negative effect on the usage of paid online local news, despite the belief that paywalled news is better than free news. In the Norwegian book industry, paper books still have a very strong position among Generation Z. Audiobooks have greater usage than e-books, and we conclude that the real disruptive actor in the Norwegian book industry is the streaming of audiobooks by actors such as Storytel.

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Local Journalism in a Digital World

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