Foundations of community journalism / edited by Bill Reader, John A. Hatcher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reader, Bill, 1970-

Hatcher, John A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community newspapers.

Journalism, Regional.

Local mass media.

Physical Description:

xix, 283 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, [2012]

Summary:

This collection of 24 essays brings together literature reviews, expert advice, history, sociological analysis, and methodological outlines on community journalism. Specific essays look at community journalism as metropolitan ecology, community journalism in an online world of user-generated content, institutional power and community media, community journalism in terms of a global community, economics of community newspapers, and broadcast journalism. The editors Reader (journalism, Ohio U.) and Hatcher (journalism and writing studies, U. of Minnesota, Duluth) stress that this collection not only brings readers up to speed on the history and methods of community journalism, but points toward future research and developments. To that end, it's intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, but would be appropriate for non-specialists working in community journalism. The other contributors are professors of journalism and communications, as well as a veteran expert of community journalism. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Background and explication. Community journalism: a concept of connectedness / Bill Reader

Community journalism's challenge to do journalism / Linda Steiner

Key works: some connections between journalism and community / Jack Rosenberry

Bringing scholars and professionals together / Gloria Freeland

The Minnesota team: key studies of institutional power and community media / Eileen Gilligan

The human background to research / Eileen Gilligan

Theories and methods. Community journalism and community history / Janice Hume

Reexamine the history of big-city community journalism / G. Michael Killenberg

The challenge of measuring community journalism / Wilson Lowrey

Methodological choices offered from the study of the Norwegian press / Sigurd Høst

Drawing from the critical cultural well / Bill Reader

Asian and American perspectives on community journalism / Crispin C. Maslog

A view from outside: what other social science disciplines can teach us about community journalism / John A. Hatcher

Community journalism as metropolitan ecology / Lewis Friedland

Multimedia and global considerations. Considering community journalism from the perspective of public relations and advertising / Diana Knott Martinelli

The economics of community newspapers / Stephen Lacy

Broadcasting and community journalism / George L. Daniels

The developing world: considering community radio in Africa / Guy Berger

Community journalism in an online world / Hans K. Meyer and George L. Daniels

Citizens, journalists, and user-generated content / Nicholas W. Jankowski

Magazines and community / Cary Roberts Frith

Making the mundane matter / Carolyn Kitch

Community journalism as an international phenomenon / John A. Hatcher

Studying the global community of community journalists / Chad Stebbins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781412974660

1412974666

OCLC:

713186172