Future role of local news : Strategies & conditions for local news

Summary, in Swedish

One of the main issues in context of the severe economical changes on the local media market and the measures the media companies are forced to take is how to maintain high quality of news journalism in the local press. There are concerns that the quality of news will decline and content will be commercialized as McManus (1994) describes it as a market-driven journalism when profit becomes the leading theme in making journalism. Franklin (2008) and McChesney and Nichols (2011) describe how quality news journalism are torn apart and even massacred by processes of commercialization and growing media concentration.
Future models of local press survival accentuate the need of rethinking newspaper content and connection with their readers (Rouger 2008). Local newspapers and local news journalism has an important role to play in the society. More studies that concern how media organisations strategically work on development of local news and journalism in context of media concentration and organizational restructurings are therefore needed.

Object of this paper is to examine changing strategies and conditions for local news journalism in the case of Swedish local newspapers.

• Författare: Asta Cepaite Nilsson; Elisabeth Stúr
• Avdelning/ar: Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation
• Publiceringsår: 2014-11-12
• Språk: Engelska
• Dokumenttyp: Konferensbidrag: abstract
• Ämne: Media Studies
• Conference name: ECREA European Communication Conference 2014
• Conference date: 2014-11-12 - 2014-11-15
• Conference place: Lisbon, Portugal
• Status: Published