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News in the community? Investigating emerging inter-local spaces of news production/consumption

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  • Dickens, Luke
  • Couldry, Nick
  • Fotopoulou, Aristea

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This article examines the emergence of new, inter-local spaces of news production and consumption, drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with community reporters trained by a community reporter organisation based in the north of England. Practices of news production and content generation are focused on people's own communities and they are underpinned by an ethos of production, which is grounded in a critical consumption of news and collective processes of skill acquisition. Through an analysis of motivations and practices, we account for the values that sustain community reporter communities and discuss how such practices, while emerging from the place of local community, also extend across wider communities of interest. It is suggested that an evolving practice of skill sharing and mutual recognition could potentially stimulate the regrowth of democratic values.

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  • Dickens, Luke & Couldry, Nick & Fotopoulou, Aristea, 2015. "News in the community? Investigating emerging inter-local spaces of news production/consumption," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 54414, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    1. Scott Rodgers & Clive Barnett & Allan Cochrane, 2009. "Mediating Urban Politics," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(1), pages 246-249, March.
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    1. Xenia Negrea, 2019. "Local Journalism and Social Journalism - Isomorphism and Proximity," Book chapters-LUMEN Proceedings, in: Camelia Ignatescu (ed.), 12th LUMEN International Scientific Conference Rethinking Social Action. Core Values in Practice | RSACVP 2019 | 15-17 May 2019 | Iasi – Romania, edition 1, volume 9, chapter 21, pages 225-231, Editura Lumen.

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    Keywords

    community reporting; democracy; inter-local; locality; news production and consumption; recognition;
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    • N0 - Economic History - - General

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