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"Key findings: Critical role of local media in addressing specific population needs, compared with national media which is increasingly seen as painting a false picture of reality. Audiences on the frontline feel excluded from national discourse. Ukrainians (57%) use local Telegram channels more tha
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"Homeless media refers to news outlets that initially distributed information solely through social media, with the majority of them now based on Instagram. Nowadays, as our findings suggest, homeless media outlets have emerged as an important source of local news, referred to for their quick update
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Local media: Surviving and thriving in a news desert Lessons learned from Local Media for Democracy
Deep Insights
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS); Local Media for Democracy (LM4D) (2024), 59 pp.
"The Local Media for Democracy (LM4D) programme was conceived and designed to achieve exactly that: to recognise and strengthen local media operating in news deserts and to provide local communities with the timely, accurate, and relevant information they need to make informed decisions about what m
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Community newspapers in Zimbabwe and the phenomenon of the citizen journalist-cum-professional journalist: Rethinking a concept
Journal of Alternative & Community Media, volume 9, issue 2 (2024), pp. 197-216
"This article interrogates the phenomenon of citizen journalism in Zimbabwean community newspapers’ production processes. It questions the distinction between citizen journalism and professional journalism and calls for a rethink of ‘citizen journalism’ in the Zimbabwean context. Data were gat
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"First of all, following a reform in 2020 that reorganised Ukraine’s districts, merging many of them to form larger ones, the situation on the map is not critical. There are indeed "unhealthy districts", but the overall situation is better than it could be. With the exception of the temporarily oc
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Lokaljournalismus im Internetzeitalter: Zur Bedeutung lokaler Kommunikation in einer globalen Medienwelt
München: UVK Verlag (2024), 280 pp.
"Das Internet bietet Printmedien neue Perspektiven. Um auf dem digitalen Markt erfolgreich zu sein, muss sich speziell die lokale Tageszeitung neu erfinden. Norbert Jonscher führt praxisnah in die Besonderheiten des Lokaljournalismus ein. Dabei legt er besonderes Augenmerk auf die Herausforderungen
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Uncovering news deserts in Europe: Risks and opportunities for local and community media in the EU
Deep Insights
San Domenico di Fiesole (Italy): European University Institute (2024), 224 pp.
"This research is focused on detecting challenges and opportunities for local and community media and identifying news deserts in the 27 EU Member States. It entails a holistic approach towards the concept of news desert, interpreting it as an area that is lacking sufficient, reliable and diverse in
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Rádio de proximidade na era multiplataforma: Presença digital e prática analógica no interior do Brasil
Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias de la Comunicación, volume 22, issue 44 (2023), pp. 189-203
"Este artigo avaliou o rádio de proximidade em Mato Grosso do Sul, no interior do Brasil, a partir de sua presença e performance na produção e circulação de conteúdo no ambiente multiplataforma. Além de pesquisa cartográfica, realizada em 91 emissoras FMs comerciais, a investigação envolv
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Local media in transitional fragile states: The cases of Iraq and Libya
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 7, issue 2 (2023), pp. 137-155
"Local media that cater to their local communities are still rare in Arab countries due to government control and centralization of media production. In some transitional states, however, we observe a mushrooming of new local small media initiatives after regulation modes have changed. Yet, these me
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Media Wealth Building: The Report of the Local News Plans Project
Public Interest News Foundation; NewsNow (2023), 43 pp.
"Between September 2022 and January 2023, the Public Interest News Foundation (PINF) worked with local communities in Bangor, Bristol, Folkestone, Glasgow, Manchester and Newry, to create ‘Local News Plans’ for their areas. We facilitated discussions between local stakeholders, including news pr
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O rádio para se ouvir, sentir e ver: Os gêneros no rádio hipermidiático e expandido em Pernambuco
Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias de la Comunicación, volume 22, issue 44 (2023), pp. 303-315
"Em um cenário de convergência midiática, o rádio se expande (Kischinhevsky, 2016) ao transbordar o conteúdo das ondas hertezianas para a internet e os meios digitais, passando a formar um novo ecossistema. Neste contexto, o do rádio hipermidiático (Lopez, 2009), a audiência, agora ouvinte-i
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Strengthening Citizens’ Participation in Decision-Making Through Interactive Radio Dialogue in Kitui, Machakos and Makueni Counties
Nairobi; Cambridge (UK): Africa’s Voices Foundation (2023), 43 pp.
‘Forced to report’: Affective proximity and the perils of local reporting on Syria
Journalism, volume 24, issue 2 (2023), pp. 280–294
"Based on interviews with Syrian media practitioners, this article uses the notion of affective proximity to make sense of local media practitioners’ reporting and witnessing of suffering in their country and community. I argue that the life-risking, and sometimes deadly, media practices of local
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