While “news deserts” are rhetorically powerful, we argue the concept is deeply problematic
due to its normative presumptions and its descriptive fuzziness. The concern over the loss of …

Rural journalists are news professionals, but also citizens engaged in their communities.
The function and purpose of local journalism and public relations have become …

This article analyses the rise of local data journalism in the United Kingdom from a triple
perspective: the description of four cases, their visions on the situation of this specialty and …

China's online news environment is complex and rapidly changing. The paper explores the
diversity of China's online news landscape and questions whether it remains dominated by …

Indicador de Compromiso Social (ICS) en el Periodismo de Proximidad: Hacia un Modelo de
Calidad en los Medios Locales Page 1 Profesional de la información, 2024, v. 33, n. 2. e-ISSN …

Introducción: La información de proximidad se perfila como un elemento político central en
la construcción de comunidades locales en la Red. En un contexto hiperconectado …

Regional and local media outlets have much more credibility than news organizations
placed at a national level, according to polls. In a context fueled by the spread of …

Using the newspaper circulation data collected through the Alliance for Audited Media (n=
1,925 across five years), this study provides the first empirical spatial analysis of newspaper …

Scholars have called to study how social cohesion is discursively negotiated and produced
in communication behavior. However, empirical evidence remains scarce. In this study, we …

In this article we present a research project that experimentally develops a local news
platform based on empirical research (interviews, group discussions, a survey) and a co …