What News?: The Market, Politics and the Local Press

ISBN-13: 9780415061728 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 240 str.

Etc Bob Franklin; David Murphy

Opis

Popular perceptions of the local press in Britain centre around images of newspapers printed on old-fashioned machinery, filled with reports of courts, councils, fetes and jumble sales, and the births, marriages and deaths of local citizens. Bob Franklin and Dave Murphy argue that this perception is long out-of-date. With almost 1800 titles, including paid and free, morning, evening and weekly newspapers, the local press is a highly significant component both in local media networks and in the context of the British press as a whole. Many papers combine substantial circulation figures with high levels of advertising revenue and are likely to be the single most important source of news for many households in the area. And the local press can provide a relatively open and pluralistic forum for political debate.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Chapter 1 The local press: defining the new boundaries; Chapter 2 Chapter 2 The corporation and the parish pump; Chapter 3 Chapter 3 The traditional local press; Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Free newspapers: some of the news that's fit to print — and much that isn't; Chapter 5 Chapter 5 The alternative local press; Chapter 6 Chapter 6 The municipal free press; Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Local press reporting of the 1987 general election; Chapter 8 Epilogue The local press: what future?; Appendix I Municipal free newspapers in England, Scotland and Wales for general distribution; Appendix II West Yorkshire newspapers monitored for study of local press coverage of 1987 general election; Notes; Select bibliography; Index;

O autorze

Franklin, Bob; Murphy, David