Does Local News Side With Local Organizations? A Case Study of Boosterism and Dependence on Local and National Sources

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunyoung Kim ◽  
Wilson Lowrey
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Local Source ◽  
Local News ◽  
Local Organization ◽  
Football Team ◽  
Local News Media ◽  
Practical Implications

This case study examines how local news tends to represent a crisis of a local organization differently from national news. Based on reviewing literature on local news boosterism, this study suggests a couple of reasons for differences between local and national news coverage: local source organizations’ boosting the city’s economy and symbolic values and variability in dependence on organizational sources by local news. When a local organization faces a crisis, local news media tend to cover issues more supportively than do national news media. Content analyses of local and national news about the crisis for the Baltimore Ravens professional football team related to player Ray Rice’s domestic violence case in 2014 show positive relationships between dependence on organizational sources and more supportive coverage on local news than that of national news. Local and national news both employed the frames of economic consequences and symbolic boosterism, but in different ways. Theoretical and practical implications are presented in the discussion.

Freedom and Constraint in Objective Local News Coverage

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 85-97
Author(s):  
Sarah Russell Hankins
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Local News ◽  
Mayoral Election ◽  
Campaign Coverage ◽  
Economic Constraints

This case study investigates how objective reporting in the 1983 Denver mayoral election may have been influenced by 1) reporters' creativity and advocacy freedom versus 2) ideological and economic constraints of the newspaper. The topic was investigated through content analysis and interviews with news professionals involved in campaign coverage.

Frames as Boundaries: Rhetorical Framing Analysis and the Confines of Public Discourse in Online News Coverage of Vegan Parenting

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-170
Author(s):  
Ryan J. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Online News ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
Boundary Properties ◽  
Blind Spots

This article examines the boundary work of frames and the methodological significance of understanding this work when conducting rhetorical framing analysis. While the boundary properties of frames have been theorized by scholars, there remains a lack of clear engagement with how to effectively address these discursive boundaries methodically. I argue that agenda-dismissal, which makes use of both prolepses and blind spots, ought to be addressed in addition to agenda-setting and agenda-extension when conducting rhetorical framing analysis. A case study is provided in which the rhetorical framing of vegan parenting in online news media is analyzed and critiqued for confining the issue within a dominant health-based frame. Strategies for dismantling discursive boundaries and reframing public issues are also considered within the context of the case study.

scholarly journals Geospatial tools : for the visualization and analysis of local news distribution

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claus Rinner ◽  
Andrew Komaromy ◽  
April Lindgren
Keyword(s):  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
News Media ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Point Pattern Analysis ◽  
Point Pattern ◽  
Local News ◽  
Spatial Point Pattern Analysis ◽  
Geospatial Tools

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) enable the integration, mapping, and analysis of data across numerous domains. It has been estimated that 80 per cent of all data collected by governments and businesses contain geographic references, and the news media are no exception. We will explain how we conceptualize news items as spatial data points and illustrate how GIS can be used to manage and analyze them using a sample of geographic references from local news items published in the Toronto Star newspaper. The analysis makes use of cartographic mapping for visual analysis of local news distribution and geospatial tools for quantitative–statistical analysis of emerging patterns. The objective of this paper is to illustrate how computer-based mapping tools can be used to analyze the geographic distribution of news in order to identify concentrations and gaps in local news coverage within a given area and thus better understand issues and trends in local news reporting. Keywords : geographic distribution, GIS, local news, spatial point pattern analysis

Boil Water Advisories as Risk Communication: Consistency between CDC Guidelines and Local News Media Articles

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Sydney O’Shay ◽  
Ashleigh M. Day ◽  
Khairul Islam ◽  
Shawn P. McElmurry ◽  
Matthew W. Seeger
Keyword(s):  
Risk Communication ◽  
News Media ◽  
Local News ◽  
Cdc Guidelines ◽  
Boil Water Advisories ◽  
Local News Media

Framing internal politics in a conflict situation: A study of the 2014 election campaign news in the local newspapers in the Indian-administered Kashmir region

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-132
Author(s):  
Arif Hussain Nadaf
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Local News ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
National Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
Local News Media

International conflict reporting and national media discourse of warring nations continue to dominate existing scholarship on media–conflict relationships. The literature on the subject lacks significant consideration towards understanding the relevance of local and sub-national media narratives in conflict situations. The existing literature on the media–conflict relationship in the conflict territory of Kashmir shows that the issue has been largely studied from the perspective of national news media in India and Pakistan. This study while engaging with the local news media in the Kashmir region, draws empirical evidence from the local newspapers in the context of the 2014 State Assembly election campaigns which took place amid unprecedented political polarization in the region. The findings from the content analysis revealed that the contested political issues between the political parties found higher resonance in the campaign news while the deliberation regarding the conflict in the region and its resolution had the least prevalence in the news discourse. This not only confirms the significant relevance of local news media and internal political dynamics in redefining the media–conflict relationship in the Kashmir conflict but also suggests the further need to engage with local and regional news narratives in conflict situations.

All the Love is on the Radio: Local Media, Cyclone Larry and an Injunction to Care

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-145
Author(s):  
Deb Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
News Media ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Local News ◽  
Local Media ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Disaster Reporting ◽  
Local News Media

Abstract Local news media play a key role in fostering citizen participation in public life and offer communities forms of supportive action during crisis, which lie at the heart of compassion. Through the lens of emotion, we can see that ‘the story’ of local disaster reporting is one of being local, where the journalist’s position between involved actor and interpretive observer is anchored in compassion for the local. In turn, a focus on compassion illuminates the power of oral history as a means to contextualise the experience of disaster – in this case, how cyclones are made culturally meaningful – and expand media research on climate-related disaster.

Political Correlates of Local News Media Use

2004 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 532-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Moy ◽  
Michael R. McCluskey ◽  
Kelley McCoy ◽  
Margaret A. Spratt
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Local News ◽  
Local News Media

Media Use and Civic Participation in the African-American Population: Exploring Participation among Professionals and Nonprofessionals

2000 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Mastin
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
News Media ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Strong Predictor ◽  
Community Integration ◽  
Local News ◽  
Local News Media

Empirical research has shown a positive relationship between local news media use, community integration, and political participation for the general population. This study examined whether the media serve such functions for African-American professionals and nonprofessionals. Both samples included fairly heavy media users; however, there was no significant relationship between local media use and civic participation. Church involvement, however, was a strong predictor of participation. Two major findings emerged: (1) local news media do not serve the civic information needs of African Americans, and (2) when compared with local news media, interpersonal networks more strongly influence African Americans' civic participation.

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