Local Journalism and Local Media

Making the Local News is a comprehensive assessment of contemporary local news production which traces the shifting position of local newspapers within local, national and multi-national media. Besides analysing the rapid technological advances of recent years, this unique textbook investigates the distinctive editorial formats of local daily and weekly papers, free papers and alternative press, local press regulation, the coverage of political and business news, and the contribution of national and local government agencies to the construction of local news agendas.