Mapping Change in Canada’s Local News Landscape: An Investigation of Research Impact on Public Policy

Lindgren, April; Corbett, Jon; Hodson, Jaigris

doi:10.1080/21670811.2020.1724516

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“…While some media lobbyists and academics in Australia and overseas have called for governments to provide an indirect subsidy to support newspaper readership through taxation systems (see e.g. : Lindgren et al, 2020), audiences were overwhelmingly against this idea, with 71% ( n = 837 of 1179 subscribed readers) answering ‘No’ when asked if they should be able to claim a tax deduction for their newspaper subscriptions. Demonstrating the power of the audience to contribute to policy discussion, including how all levels of government might play a role, some survey participants proposed alternatives on how to fund and support local news.…”

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Examining audience perspectives on local newspaper futures

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When it comes to examining innovation and small-town newspapers, audience expectations and perspectives have received less focus than newsroom practices and processes. This article presents the findings of Australia’s most comprehensive national survey of local newspaper audiences ( n = 4116), which engaged with readers of more than 170 independently owned, small-town newspapers across the nation. The survey was underpinned by a ‘geo-social’ methodology, which provides a multidimensional framework for understanding the ‘place’ of newspapers in the digital age within their specific geographic context, in this case rural Australia. It used ordinal, nominal and qualitative questions to explore respondents’ experiences, histories, expectations and perspectives related to their local newspaper. Respondents were asked about their preferences for reading and receiving local news, what their newspaper can do better, and the policy debates and interventions shaping the sector. Results indicate a continued desire for the printed product, a passion for localness in terms of both production and content, and a greater say for local news audiences on the policies shaping the future of news in non-metropolitan settings.

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“…Accordingly, in the case of DP, local media were least likely to identify instruments of public support. As DP are expected to become particularly relevant revenue sources for local media in the future (e.g., Hansen et al 2018), public support should, therefore, also raise awareness for specific strategies, provide research-based knowledge and discuss solutions (Lindgren, Corbett, and Hodson 2020).…”

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“…Finally, as various academic systematizations show, different types of media systems have implemented different instruments of public support for different types of (local) media (Nielsen and Linnebank 2011;K€ unzler et al 2013;Ali 2012Ali , 2017. Further studies have investigated how public support for local journalism is innovated (Lindgren, Corbett, and Hodson 2020;Stonbely, Weber, and Satullo 2020).…”

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Un-Locking Strategic Lock-Ins of Local Media: An Investigation of Local Media’s Preferences towards Public Support for Strategic Innovation

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Media practitioners and policy makers are calling for more public support to facilitate the digital transformation of local journalism. However, newer academic literature focuses on explaining why public support for local media has become a necessity from a market failure and societal point of view. Almost no attention is dedicated to the question which known public support instruments might be considered as helpful from the perspective of local media and their digital transformation strategies. Therefore, this study draws on strategic path dependence theory and investigates how local media's perceptions of innovation constraints (i.e., lock-in mechanisms), their innovation status (i.e., lock-ins) and their preferences for public support instruments to enable innovation (i.e., public un-lock mechanisms) differ depending on the type of strategy. Four strategies are compared: two content strategies (multimedia formats and artificial intelligence applications) as well as two commercial strategies (revenue diversification and digital payment models). Data about the four strategies are collected with an online survey of local media, which operate in the Swiss Canton of St. Gallen. The findings show significant differences between the investigated strategies and suggest a differentiated approach to public support of local media in the digital age.

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“…Those of us who research local journalism are experiencing various degrees of a sort of post-traumatic stress disorder, as our work continues to produce ever more discouraging findings. Lindgren, Corbett, and Hodson (2020) piece provides an important reminder of why we continue to do this grim workto try to bring about action to help solve the problem. Their piece looks at how the Local News Map tool developed at Ryerson University in Canada has helped to move the crisis in local journalism onto the Canadian policy agenda, and how it has helped to inform the subsequent policy deliberations.…”

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Connecting Journalism and Public Policy: New Concerns and Continuing Challenges

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2020

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This Introduction to this special issue on Policy Issues in Digital Journalism explores the reasons why this is a particularly important time for scholars to be exploring policy issues in digital journalism, as well as the reasons why, in some national contexts, there has been resistance to approaching the crisis in journalism as a public policy issue. This Introduction also suggestions direction for future research on policy issues in digital journalism. KEYWORDS Journalism; media regulation; media policy; digital platforms I was very excited about the opportunity to guest edit this special issue on this topic for a number of reasons. First, I find myself now in a unique institutional context-I am based in a public policy school 1 that is also home to a journalism program. 2 This is an institutional arrangement that is certainly unique in the U.S., and, I suspect, is also quite rare internationally. And yet, there is something about this arrangement that makes sense, both in terms of the role that journalism plays in the formulation of public policy (see, e.g. Cook 2005), and in terms the way that journalism (and media more broadly) can be the object of public policy (see, e.g. Napoli 2001, 2019). I've always found it fascinatingand difficult to understandwhy amongst the various areas of public policy, media and communications policy tends to reside almost exclusively in media and communications programs and virtually never in public policy programs. Yet other areas of public policy, such as education policy, environmental policy, economic policy, etc., are always prominently represented in public policy programs as well as in their "home" units (i.e. programs in education, environmental science, economics, etc.). The logic I have heard in the past is that media/communications policy is too narrow (and thus not sufficiently consequential?) a niche to justify investment from public policy programs. This logic seems a lot less compelling today than it ever has (not that I've ever found that logic to be particularly compelling). Often, I am reminded of a slogan that my colleagues who work in media policy advocacy have been using for years to try to broaden their constituency and form strategic partnerships with

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Mapping Change in Canada’s Local News Landscape: An Investigation of Research Impact on Public Policy

Cited by 10 publications

References 20 publications

Examining audience perspectives on local newspaper futures

Examining audience perspectives on local newspaper futures

Un-Locking Strategic Lock-Ins of Local Media: An Investigation of Local Media’s Preferences towards Public Support for Strategic Innovation

Connecting Journalism and Public Policy: New Concerns and Continuing Challenges

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