“…At the same time, the industry is seeing a trend toward the ''hyperlocal,'' particularly in newspapers and on news websites (Kurpius, Metzgar, & Rowley, 2010;Stepp, 2011), a combination of technology and industry economics has fueled an opposite practice of outsourcing in local broadcast news. Such a trend has been documented in radio (Hood, 2007(Hood, , 2010(Hood, , 2011Torosyan & Munro, 2010) but is also occurring in local TV. A decade ago, Kaplan (2003) warned that the ''local'' in local TV was in danger, amid concerns that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), while looking at ownership rules, was not analyzing ''the content of local TV news to find out how local it really is'' (2003, p. 11).…”