Foundations of Community Journalism
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Foundations of Community Journalism

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Foundations of Community Journalism

About this book

Foundations of Community Journalism is the first and only book to focus on how to understand and conduct research in this ever-increasing field. With chapters written by established journalism scholars and teachers, this book provides students and researchers with an understanding of the multiple methods applied to the study of community journalism, such as historical, social-scientific, cultural/critical, and interdisciplinary approaches. It explains what community journalism is as a research concept and offers a range of different methods and theories that can be applied to community journalism research. Although there are numerous "how-to" community journalism manuals for students and newspaper editors, none focuses on how to conduct research into community journalism. The body of knowledge in Foundations of Community Journalism would take readers months, perhaps years, of independent work to gather, making this book a "must-have" volume and reference tool for anybody who is interested in the relationships between journalism and communities.

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PART 
I
Background 
and 
Explication
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1
Community 
Journalism
A 
Concept 
of 
Connectedness
Bill 
Reader
T
he 
concept 
of 
community 
journalism
long 
has 
been 
regarded 
as 
a 
specific 
practice 
of 
gathering, 
packaging, 
and 
distributing 
news 
in 
predominantly 
small, 
distinct 
geographic 
markets, 
with 
an 
empha-
sis 
on 
local 
news 
and 
information 
about 
community 
life. 
For 
many 
decades 
in 
the 
20th 
century, 
“community 
journalism” 
was 
used 
as 
a 
synonym 
for 
“small-town 
newspapers.” 
Yet 
in 
the 
first 
decade 
of 
the 
21st 
century, 
renewed 
interest 
in 
the 
cultural 
roles 
of 
journalism 
in 
community 
life 
has 
broadened 
the 
concept 
to 
something 
that 
reaches 
well 
beyond 
newspapers 
in 
small 
towns 
and 
includes 
various 
media 
in 
many 
different 
types 
of 
communities—special-interest 
magazines, 
online-only 
newsletters 
for 
professional 
communities, 
local 
indepen-
dent 
radio, 
“hyperlocal” 
websites, 
and 
so 
on. 
Some 
of 
that 
interest 
has 
been 
assumed 
to 
represent 
a 
stunde 
null
in 
the 
study 
of 
commu-
nity 
journalism, 
with 
some 
scholars 
suggesting 
that 
the 
concept 
of 
community 
journalism 
is 
new 
and 
emerging. 
In 
fact, 
contemplation 
3
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Part I - Background and Explication
  7. Chapter 1 - Community Journalism: A Concept of Connectedness
  8. Chapter 2 - Key Works: Some Connections Between Journalism and Community
  9. Chapter 3 - The Minnesota Team: Key Studies of Institutional Power and Community Media
  10. Part II - Theories and Methods
  11. Chapter 4 - Community Journalism and Community History
  12. Chapter 5 - The Challenge of Measuring Community Journalism
  13. Chapter 6 - Drawing From the Critical Cultural Well
  14. Chapter 7 - A View From Outside: What Other Social Science Disciplines Can Teach Us About Community Journalism
  15. Part III - Multimedia and Global Considerations
  16. Chapter 8 - Considering Community Journalism From the Perspective of Public Relations and Advertising
  17. Chapter 9 - Broadcasting and Community Journalism
  18. Chapter 10 - Community Journalism in an Online World
  19. Chapter 11 - Magazines and Community
  20. Chapter 12 - Community Journalism as an International Phenomenon
  21. Appendix: Resources for Community Journalism Scholars
  22. Index
  23. About the Authors