The Routledge Companion to Local Media and Journalism
- Submitting institution
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Canterbury Christ Church University
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- U34.052
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780815375364
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- The Companion is a long-form output of over 242,000 words that involved sustained research effort for three years. It contains 46 chapters written by 66 authors and a 12,000-word Introduction by the editors that demarcates the field and makes a conceptual contribution. Bringing together the volume as one output was complex and extended work, involving developing the framework and research questions; identifying researchers and negotiating with them regarding their particular contributions; editing a large body of material; and researching and reviewing the literature for conceptual underpinnings and key themes in the field that were analysed in the Introductory chapter.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The Companion consolidates and advances the formerly fragmented field of local media and journalism offering the most comprehensive collection of research to date and, for the first time, a truly global range of perspectives. Gulyas’s contribution to the volume was multi-fold. She identified the research aims and scope of the Companion, and negotiated with the publisher. She led on the development of the research questions and design of the framework, which structures the volume and provides focus for the analyses. With Baines she commissioned and curated 46 contributions from 66 authors ensuring that the Companion offers both theoretical and empirical insights, covers each continent and a global spread of perspectives, as well bringing together a mix of established and emerging scholars. Gulyas and Baines managed and edited the 46 contributions ensuring that the Companion is coherent, comprehensive and meets the overall research aims. They also wrote the extended, in-depth analytical introductory chapter that demarcates the field, offering conceptual contribution, identification and analysis of key themes and directions for future research.
Both the framework and the introductory chapter are underpinned by an extensive review of the literature carried out by the editors, as part of which they mapped out fundamental topics and landmarks of the field. The introductory chapter provides a holistic overview of the field bringing to light new understandings of the dominant foci of research and highlights hitherto unrecognised interconnections and thematic links between discrete areas of the literature. These include the diverse processes which can lead to local news deserts; the effectiveness of different subsidy systems; state interventions; and a reappraisal of issues surrounding professionalism in local journalism. The chapter also interrogates definitional debates relating to critical, but often taken-for-granted, conceptualisations of ‘local media’, ‘locality’, ‘community’ and the development of a sense of belonging.
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- Non-English
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