Agnes Gulyas is Professor in Media and Communications at the School of Creative Arts and Industries, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. Her recent projects have focused on local media gaps and local news consumption in the UK, as well as journalists' use of social media. She is a founding member of the Local and Community Media Network of the Media, Communication and Cultural Association, UK. David Baines is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University, UK. He worked in local and regional newspapers for 30 years before moving to the academy, where his research focus is on transformations in local and community media, journalism practices and journalism education. He is a founding member of the Local and Community Media Network of the Media, Communication and Cultural Association, UK.

• Introduction: demarcating the field of local media and journalismAgnes Gulyas and David BainesPart I - Histories and legacies of local media and journalism Historicising the afterlife: local newspapers in the United Kingdom and the ‘art of prognosis’Rachel Matthews A history of the local newspaper in JapanAnthony S. Rausch Local news deserts in Brazil: historical and contemporary perspectivesCarlos Eduardo Lins da Silva and Angela Pimenta History of local media in NorwayEli Skogerbø State of play: local media, power and society in the CaribbeanJuliette Marie Storr ‘Peopleization’ of news: the development of the American local television news formatMadeleine Liseblad Part II - Local media policies The death of broadcast localism in the United StatesChristopher Ali Developing local media policies in sub-state nations: the case of CataloniaMariola Tarrega and Josep Angel Guimerà Local journalism in Australia: policy debatesKristy Hess and Lisa Waller The development of community broadcasting legislation in Kenya Rose N. Kimani Local media policies in Poland: key issues and debatesSylwia Męcfal The impact of communication policies in local television models: the cases of Catalonia and Scotland Aida Martori Muntsant Part III - Local media, publics and politics Local journalism in the United States: its publics, its problems, and its potentialsC.W. Anderson Remediating the local through localised news making: India’s booming multilingual press as agent in political and social change Ursula Rao De-professionalization and fragmentation: challenges for local journalism in SwedenGunnar Nygren Central and local media in Russia: between central control and local initiativesIlya Kiriya The return of party journalism in China and ‘Janusian’ content: the case of Newspaper X Jingrong Tong Strategy over substance and national in focus? Local television coverage of politics and policy in the United StatesErika Franklin Fowler From journal of record to the 24/7 news cycle: perspectives on the changing nature of court reporting in AustraliaMargaret Simons and Jason Bosland Part IV - Ownership and sustainability of local media Business and ownership of local media: an international perspectiveBill Reader and John Hatcher Local media owners as saviours in the Czech Republic: they save money, not journalismLenka Waschková Císařová What can we learn from independent family-owned local media groups? Case studies from the United Kingdom Sarah O’Hara Local media in France: subsidized, heavily regulated and under pressureMatthieu Lardeau ‘I’ve started a hyperlocal, so now what?’ Marco van Kerkhoven The hyperlocal ‘renaissance’ in Australia and New ZealandScott Downman and Richard Murray Part V - Local journalists and journalistic practices At the crossroads of hobby, community work and media business: Nordic and Russian hyperlocal practitionersJaana Hujanen, Olga Dovbysh, Carina Tenor, Mikko Grönlund, Katja Lehtisaari and Carl-Gustav Lindén Not all doom and gloom: the story of American small-market newspapersChristopher Ali, Damian Radcliffe and Rosalind Donald Local journalism in Bulgaria: trends from the Worlds of Journalism studyVera Slavtcheva-Petkova Specialised training of local journalists in armed conflict: the Colombian experienceYennué Zárate Valderrama From community to commerce? Analytics, audience ‘engagement’ and how local newspapers are renegotiating news values in the age of pageview-driven journalism in the United KingdomJames Morrison Two-tier tweeting: how promotional and personalised use of Twitter is shaping journalistic practices in the United KingdomLily Canter Centralised and digitally disrupted: an ethnographic view of local journalism in New ZealandHelen Sissons Situating journalistic coverage: a practice theory approach to researching local community radio production in the United KingdomJosephine F. Coleman Part VI - Communities and audiences of local news What does the audience experience as valuable local journalism? Approaching local news quality from a user’s perspectiveIrene Costera Meijer Local journalism and at-risk communities in the United StatesPhilip M. Napoli and Matthew Weber The emerging deficit: changing local journalism and its impact on communities in AustraliaMargaret Simons, Andrea Carson, Denis Muller and Jennifer Martin Strength in numbers: building collaborative partnerships for data-driven community newsJan Lauren Boyles Bottom-up hyperlocal media in Belgium: Facebook-groups as collaborative neighborhood awareness systemsJonas De Meulenaere, Cédric Courtois and Koen Ponnet Local news repertoires in a transforming Swedish media landscapeAnnika Bergström The what, where, and why of local news in the United StatesAngela M. Lee Part VII - Local media and the public good Local media and disaster reporting in Japan Florian Meissner and Jun Tsukada Public service journalism and engagement in US hyperlocal nonprofitsPatrick Ferrucci Local public service media in Northern Ireland: the merit goods argument Phil Ramsey and Philip McDermott Participation in local radio agricultural broadcasts and message adoption among rural farmers in northern GhanaAdam Tanko Zakariah Pacific Islanders’ talanoa values and public support point the way forward Shailendra Singh Alternative journalism, alternative ethics? Tony Harcup

"An immensely important and timely collection of insights and research from veteran and emerging scholars of local media and journalism. This compendium of work by international scholars lays an excellent foundation. Given all that is at stake, one hopes this is the first of many volumes." - Penelope Muse Abernathy, Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics at the University of North Carolina, US. "A vital resource for anyone interested in why local media and journalism matters and how to ensure it sustains."- Natalie Fenton, Professor of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy and founding member of the Media Reform Coalition"The volume achieves an admirable depth of focus by anchoring local journalism practices in relation to a range of contextual forces. This rich and textured contribution to the field of journalism studies directs our attention to an important yet often under-researched dimension of the disrupted, evolving journalism landscape and deserves to find a wide readership." - Herman Wasserman, Professor and Director of the Centre for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa."Offering studies from around the globe informed by leading edge research, this significant, scholarly, landmark collection reasserts the significance of local media and local journalism for public engagement and deliberation" - Professor Bob Franklin, founding editor of Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice and Journalism Studies and author of numerous publications on local media.

Agnes Gulyas is Professor in Media and Communications at the School of Creative Arts and Industries, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. Her recent projects have focused on local media gaps and local news consumption in the UK, as well as journalists' use of social media. She is a founding member of the Local and Community Media Network of the Media, Communication and Cultural Association, UK. David Baines is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University, UK. He worked in local and regional newspapers for 30 years before moving to the academy, where his research focus is on transformations in local and community media, journalism practices and journalism education. He is a founding member of the Local and Community Media Network of the Media, Communication and Cultural Association, UK.

• Introduction: demarcating the field of local media and journalismAgnes Gulyas and David BainesPart I - Histories and legacies of local media and journalism Historicising the afterlife: local newspapers in the United Kingdom and the ‘art of prognosis’Rachel Matthews A history of the local newspaper in JapanAnthony S. Rausch Local news deserts in Brazil: historical and contemporary perspectivesCarlos Eduardo Lins da Silva and Angela Pimenta History of local media in NorwayEli Skogerbø State of play: local media, power and society in the CaribbeanJuliette Marie Storr ‘Peopleization’ of news: the development of the American local television news formatMadeleine Liseblad Part II - Local media policies The death of broadcast localism in the United StatesChristopher Ali Developing local media policies in sub-state nations: the case of CataloniaMariola Tarrega and Josep Angel Guimerà Local journalism in Australia: policy debatesKristy Hess and Lisa Waller The development of community broadcasting legislation in Kenya Rose N. Kimani Local media policies in Poland: key issues and debatesSylwia Męcfal The impact of communication policies in local television models: the cases of Catalonia and Scotland Aida Martori Muntsant Part III - Local media, publics and politics Local journalism in the United States: its publics, its problems, and its potentialsC.W. Anderson Remediating the local through localised news making: India’s booming multilingual press as agent in political and social change Ursula Rao De-professionalization and fragmentation: challenges for local journalism in SwedenGunnar Nygren Central and local media in Russia: between central control and local initiativesIlya Kiriya The return of party journalism in China and ‘Janusian’ content: the case of Newspaper X Jingrong Tong Strategy over substance and national in focus? Local television coverage of politics and policy in the United StatesErika Franklin Fowler From journal of record to the 24/7 news cycle: perspectives on the changing nature of court reporting in AustraliaMargaret Simons and Jason Bosland Part IV - Ownership and sustainability of local media Business and ownership of local media: an international perspectiveBill Reader and John Hatcher Local media owners as saviours in the Czech Republic: they save money, not journalismLenka Waschková Císařová What can we learn from independent family-owned local media groups? Case studies from the United Kingdom Sarah O’Hara Local media in France: subsidized, heavily regulated and under pressureMatthieu Lardeau ‘I’ve started a hyperlocal, so now what?’ Marco van Kerkhoven The hyperlocal ‘renaissance’ in Australia and New ZealandScott Downman and Richard Murray Part V - Local journalists and journalistic practices At the crossroads of hobby, community work and media business: Nordic and Russian hyperlocal practitionersJaana Hujanen, Olga Dovbysh, Carina Tenor, Mikko Grönlund, Katja Lehtisaari and Carl-Gustav Lindén Not all doom and gloom: the story of American small-market newspapersChristopher Ali, Damian Radcliffe and Rosalind Donald Local journalism in Bulgaria: trends from the Worlds of Journalism studyVera Slavtcheva-Petkova Specialised training of local journalists in armed conflict: the Colombian experienceYennué Zárate Valderrama From community to commerce? Analytics, audience ‘engagement’ and how local newspapers are renegotiating news values in the age of pageview-driven journalism in the United KingdomJames Morrison Two-tier tweeting: how promotional and personalised use of Twitter is shaping journalistic practices in the United KingdomLily Canter Centralised and digitally disrupted: an ethnographic view of local journalism in New ZealandHelen Sissons Situating journalistic coverage: a practice theory approach to researching local community radio production in the United KingdomJosephine F. Coleman Part VI - Communities and audiences of local news What does the audience experience as valuable local journalism? Approaching local news quality from a user’s perspectiveIrene Costera Meijer Local journalism and at-risk communities in the United StatesPhilip M. Napoli and Matthew Weber The emerging deficit: changing local journalism and its impact on communities in AustraliaMargaret Simons, Andrea Carson, Denis Muller and Jennifer Martin Strength in numbers: building collaborative partnerships for data-driven community newsJan Lauren Boyles Bottom-up hyperlocal media in Belgium: Facebook-groups as collaborative neighborhood awareness systemsJonas De Meulenaere, Cédric Courtois and Koen Ponnet Local news repertoires in a transforming Swedish media landscapeAnnika Bergström The what, where, and why of local news in the United StatesAngela M. Lee Part VII - Local media and the public good Local media and disaster reporting in Japan Florian Meissner and Jun Tsukada Public service journalism and engagement in US hyperlocal nonprofitsPatrick Ferrucci Local public service media in Northern Ireland: the merit goods argument Phil Ramsey and Philip McDermott Participation in local radio agricultural broadcasts and message adoption among rural farmers in northern GhanaAdam Tanko Zakariah Pacific Islanders’ talanoa values and public support point the way forward Shailendra Singh Alternative journalism, alternative ethics? Tony Harcup

"An immensely important and timely collection of insights and research from veteran and emerging scholars of local media and journalism. This compendium of work by international scholars lays an excellent foundation. Given all that is at stake, one hopes this is the first of many volumes." - Penelope Muse Abernathy, Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics at the University of North Carolina, US. "A vital resource for anyone interested in why local media and journalism matters and how to ensure it sustains."- Natalie Fenton, Professor of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy and founding member of the Media Reform Coalition"The volume achieves an admirable depth of focus by anchoring local journalism practices in relation to a range of contextual forces. This rich and textured contribution to the field of journalism studies directs our attention to an important yet often under-researched dimension of the disrupted, evolving journalism landscape and deserves to find a wide readership." - Herman Wasserman, Professor and Director of the Centre for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa."Offering studies from around the globe informed by leading edge research, this significant, scholarly, landmark collection reasserts the significance of local media and local journalism for public engagement and deliberation" - Professor Bob Franklin, founding editor of Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice and Journalism Studies and author of numerous publications on local media.

Agnes Gulyas is Professor in Media and Communications at the School of Creative Arts and Industries, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. Her recent projects have focused on local media gaps and local news consumption in the UK, as well as journalists' use of social media. She is a founding member of the Local and Community Media Network of the Media, Communication and Cultural Association, UK. David Baines is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University, UK. He worked in local and regional newspapers for 30 years before moving to the academy, where his research focus is on transformations in local and community media, journalism practices and journalism education. He is a founding member of the Local and Community Media Network of the Media, Communication and Cultural Association, UK.

• Introduction: demarcating the field of local media and journalismAgnes Gulyas and David BainesPart I - Histories and legacies of local media and journalism Historicising the afterlife: local newspapers in the United Kingdom and the ‘art of prognosis’Rachel Matthews A history of the local newspaper in JapanAnthony S. Rausch Local news deserts in Brazil: historical and contemporary perspectivesCarlos Eduardo Lins da Silva and Angela Pimenta History of local media in NorwayEli Skogerbø State of play: local media, power and society in the CaribbeanJuliette Marie Storr ‘Peopleization’ of news: the development of the American local television news formatMadeleine Liseblad Part II - Local media policies The death of broadcast localism in the United StatesChristopher Ali Developing local media policies in sub-state nations: the case of CataloniaMariola Tarrega and Josep Angel Guimerà Local journalism in Australia: policy debatesKristy Hess and Lisa Waller The development of community broadcasting legislation in Kenya Rose N. Kimani Local media policies in Poland: key issues and debatesSylwia Męcfal The impact of communication policies in local television models: the cases of Catalonia and Scotland Aida Martori Muntsant Part III - Local media, publics and politics Local journalism in the United States: its publics, its problems, and its potentialsC.W. Anderson Remediating the local through localised news making: India’s booming multilingual press as agent in political and social change Ursula Rao De-professionalization and fragmentation: challenges for local journalism in SwedenGunnar Nygren Central and local media in Russia: between central control and local initiativesIlya Kiriya The return of party journalism in China and ‘Janusian’ content: the case of Newspaper X Jingrong Tong Strategy over substance and national in focus? Local television coverage of politics and policy in the United StatesErika Franklin Fowler From journal of record to the 24/7 news cycle: perspectives on the changing nature of court reporting in AustraliaMargaret Simons and Jason Bosland Part IV - Ownership and sustainability of local media Business and ownership of local media: an international perspectiveBill Reader and John Hatcher Local media owners as saviours in the Czech Republic: they save money, not journalismLenka Waschková Císařová What can we learn from independent family-owned local media groups? Case studies from the United Kingdom Sarah O’Hara Local media in France: subsidized, heavily regulated and under pressureMatthieu Lardeau ‘I’ve started a hyperlocal, so now what?’ Marco van Kerkhoven The hyperlocal ‘renaissance’ in Australia and New ZealandScott Downman and Richard Murray Part V - Local journalists and journalistic practices At the crossroads of hobby, community work and media business: Nordic and Russian hyperlocal practitionersJaana Hujanen, Olga Dovbysh, Carina Tenor, Mikko Grönlund, Katja Lehtisaari and Carl-Gustav Lindén Not all doom and gloom: the story of American small-market newspapersChristopher Ali, Damian Radcliffe and Rosalind Donald Local journalism in Bulgaria: trends from the Worlds of Journalism studyVera Slavtcheva-Petkova Specialised training of local journalists in armed conflict: the Colombian experienceYennué Zárate Valderrama From community to commerce? Analytics, audience ‘engagement’ and how local newspapers are renegotiating news values in the age of pageview-driven journalism in the United KingdomJames Morrison Two-tier tweeting: how promotional and personalised use of Twitter is shaping journalistic practices in the United KingdomLily Canter Centralised and digitally disrupted: an ethnographic view of local journalism in New ZealandHelen Sissons Situating journalistic coverage: a practice theory approach to researching local community radio production in the United KingdomJosephine F. Coleman Part VI - Communities and audiences of local news What does the audience experience as valuable local journalism? Approaching local news quality from a user’s perspectiveIrene Costera Meijer Local journalism and at-risk communities in the United StatesPhilip M. Napoli and Matthew Weber The emerging deficit: changing local journalism and its impact on communities in AustraliaMargaret Simons, Andrea Carson, Denis Muller and Jennifer Martin Strength in numbers: building collaborative partnerships for data-driven community newsJan Lauren Boyles Bottom-up hyperlocal media in Belgium: Facebook-groups as collaborative neighborhood awareness systemsJonas De Meulenaere, Cédric Courtois and Koen Ponnet Local news repertoires in a transforming Swedish media landscapeAnnika Bergström The what, where, and why of local news in the United StatesAngela M. Lee Part VII - Local media and the public good Local media and disaster reporting in Japan Florian Meissner and Jun Tsukada Public service journalism and engagement in US hyperlocal nonprofitsPatrick Ferrucci Local public service media in Northern Ireland: the merit goods argument Phil Ramsey and Philip McDermott Participation in local radio agricultural broadcasts and message adoption among rural farmers in northern GhanaAdam Tanko Zakariah Pacific Islanders’ talanoa values and public support point the way forward Shailendra Singh Alternative journalism, alternative ethics? Tony Harcup

"An immensely important and timely collection of insights and research from veteran and emerging scholars of local media and journalism. This compendium of work by international scholars lays an excellent foundation. Given all that is at stake, one hopes this is the first of many volumes." - Penelope Muse Abernathy, Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics at the University of North Carolina, US. "A vital resource for anyone interested in why local media and journalism matters and how to ensure it sustains."- Natalie Fenton, Professor of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy and founding member of the Media Reform Coalition"The volume achieves an admirable depth of focus by anchoring local journalism practices in relation to a range of contextual forces. This rich and textured contribution to the field of journalism studies directs our attention to an important yet often under-researched dimension of the disrupted, evolving journalism landscape and deserves to find a wide readership." - Herman Wasserman, Professor and Director of the Centre for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa."Offering studies from around the globe informed by leading edge research, this significant, scholarly, landmark collection reasserts the significance of local media and local journalism for public engagement and deliberation" - Professor Bob Franklin, founding editor of Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice and Journalism Studies and author of numerous publications on local media.