The Three “Cs” of Digital Local Journalism: Community, Commitment and Continuity

Gulyas, Agnes; Hess, Kristy

doi:10.1080/21670811.2023.2211639

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“…The rapidly advancing process of digitization is putting local news organizations under pressure. With their advertising and audience revenues in decline, local news organizations have been experiencing comparatively high degrees of disruption in recent years (Gulyas and Hess 2023). Therefore, a major challenge facing societies today lies in the decline of local news provision (Wahl-Jorgensen 2019), which threatens to create news deserts (Abernathy 2023;Blagojev et al 2023;Olsen and Mathisen 2023), with consequences for local communities and, more broadly, for democratic societies (Ali 2016;Olsen, Kammer, and Solvoll 2020).…”

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“…However, local news organizations have been struggling to create value for which audiences are willing to sacrifice nonmonetary (time, effort) and monetary costs (Van der Haar, Kemp, and Omta 2001), resulting in declining revenues in their two‐sided market (Gulyas and Hess 2023). For instance, Olsen and Solvoll (2018a) have found that local news organizations’ offerings are particularly misaligned with younger and lower‐income audiences.…”

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Transforming the value chain of local journalism with artificial intelligence

Wilczek,

Haim,

Thurman

2024

AI Magazine

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With their advertising and audience revenues in decline, local news organizations have been experiencing comparatively high degrees of disruption in recent years. Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers opportunities for local news organizations to better cope with the economic challenges they face. However, local news organizations need to carefully prioritize where AI will create the most value. After all, they serve customers in the audience and advertising markets, with external effects on society. At the same time, they are limited by scarce resources, which constrains the implementation of AI. Therefore, based on Porter's value chain, this article pursues two goals. First, drawing on previous research, we provide a systematic overview of activities for which local news organizations see the biggest potential of AI to create value. Moreover, we highlight promising AI use cases based on benchmarking with national news organizations. Second, we discuss local news organizations’ challenges in implementing AI and how they might overcome such obstacles.

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Transforming the value chain of local journalism with artificial intelligence

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Haim,

Thurman

2024

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‘Ink in our veins’: insights from Australia’s small-town family newspaper dynasties

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Hess,

Blakston

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Communication Research and Practice

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Picturing a quality local news visual: Perspectives from non-specialist journalists

Thomson

2024

Journalism

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This study explores a key question around local visual news: what do non-specialist journalists regard as a quality news visual? This study focuses on still images as the most ubiquitous building block in the local visual news landscape, whether as thumbnails that are shared with links on social media platforms, as hero images accompanying articles, as photo galleries, or as still frames extracted from videos. Much of what we know about a quality news visual comes from the perspectives of visually literate specialists: photo editors, photojournalists, and related roles. Yet, despite the ubiquity of photographs within print and digital news, they are increasingly being made not by staff photojournalists but, rather, by freelancers, words-based reporters, or community members. As these dynamics have shifted over the past two decades, scholarship has struggled to keep up with how non-specialist journalists define the attributes and properties of a quality news visual. This study aims to address this gap within the context of local and regional news using an interview-based approach and finds that interviewees most commonly defined quality news photographs through the lens of news values, followed by technical considerations and narrative dimensions, aesthetics, the perceived effect the visual had on the audience, how the visual was made and presented, and who or what was photographed.

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The Three “Cs” of Digital Local Journalism: Community, Commitment and Continuity

Cited by 5 publications

References 14 publications

Transforming the value chain of local journalism with artificial intelligence

Transforming the value chain of local journalism with artificial intelligence

‘Ink in our veins’: insights from Australia’s small-town family newspaper dynasties

Picturing a quality local news visual: Perspectives from non-specialist journalists

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