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 journalism

Agnes Gulyas and David Baines

Part 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 Japan


Anthony S. Rausch

• Local news deserts in Brazil: historical and contemporary perspectives


Carlos Eduardo Lins da Silva and Angela Pimenta

• History of local media in Norway


Eli Skogerbø

• State of play: local media, power and society in the Caribbean


Juliette Marie Storr

• 'Peopleization' of news: the development of the American local television news format


Madeleine Liseblad

Part II - Local media policies

• The death of broadcast localism in the United States


Christopher Ali

• Developing local media policies in sub-state nations: the case of Catalonia


Mariola Tarrega and Josep Angel Guimerà

• Local journalism in Australia: policy debates


Kristy Hess and Lisa Waller

• The development of community broadcasting legislation in Kenya


Rose N. Kimani

• Local media policies in Poland: key issues and debates


Sylwia Mecfal

• 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 potentials


C.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 Sweden


Gunnar Nygren

• Central and local media in Russia: between central control and local initiatives


Ilya 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 States


Erika Franklin Fowler

• From journal of record to the 24/7 news cycle: perspectives on the changing nature of court reporting in Australia


Margaret Simons and Jason Bosland

Part IV - Ownership and susta