What News?: The Market, Politics and the Local Press
A survey of the role and the future prospects of the local press in the 1990s. The authors also take into account the radical changes the local press have been through with new technology and the proliferation of free newspapers.
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What News?: The Market, Politics and the Local Press
A survey of the role and the future prospects of the local press in the 1990s. The authors also take into account the radical changes the local press have been through with new technology and the proliferation of free newspapers.
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What News?: The Market, Politics and the Local Press

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

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

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

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Overview

A survey of the role and the future prospects of the local press in the 1990s. The authors also take into account the radical changes the local press have been through with new technology and the proliferation of free newspapers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138879591
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 04/27/2015
Series: Communication and Society
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Franklin, Bob; Murphy, David

Table of Contents

List of tables vi

1 The local press: defining the new boundaries 1

2 The corporation and the parish pump 30

3 The traditional local press 55

4 Free newspapers: some of the news that's fit to print - and much that isn't 80

5 The alternative local press 106

6 The municipal free press 131

7 Local press reporting of the 1987 general election 154

Epilogue The local press: what future? 190

Appendices

I Municipal free newspapers in England, Scotland and Wales for general distribution 197

II West Yorkshire newspapers monitored for study of local press coverage of 1987 election 201

Notes 204

Select bibliography 216

Index 221

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