scholarly journals Where Have All the Stories and Voices Gone in Local Newspapers? The Effect Falling Advertising Revenues and the Rise of the Web Have Had on English Regional Newspapers

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 221-238
Author(s):  
Richard Bowyer
Keyword(s):  
Local People ◽  
Newspaper Industry ◽  
News Content ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
Cost Cutting ◽  
Regional Newspapers ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Regional Newspaper ◽  
The Web

The regional newspaper industry in the UK is in freefall with sales down more than 60 percent in 10 years. With this decline has come cost-cutting. This study looks at how these cuts have manifested themselves in terms of the number of news stories now being printed in newspapers and the number of local people being quoted in the newspapers. The study has looked at a number of regional newspapers across 30 years to show the effect of the changing face of the newspaper business as the audience and advertising have moved online. The research includes interviews with experts on whether story count mattered and if fewer stories and local voices have damaged the product. This paper finds that generally newspaper companies with a web-first culture have been forced to reduce their local news content in their printed products as they concentrate their resources online. While fewer stories and voices cannot be blamed for the complete demise of the newspapers, it is a consequence of cost-cutting and disadvantages the product. Opinions do vary on the needs for high story count, but this paper shows that most experts believe it is important and that without it, printed newspapers have been damaged. Keywords: newspapers, regional, decline, stories, quotes

‘Local (People) Mean the World to US’: Australia's Regional Newspapers and the ‘Closer to Readers’ Assumption

2005 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqui Ewart ◽  
Brian L. Massey
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Local People ◽  
News Story ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Australian State ◽  
Regional Newspapers ◽  
The World

The intersections between journalism and democracy are explored in this paper through an analysis of the ‘voices’ through which the news is ‘told’ by specific segments of the Australian print media. We argue that evidence of the extent to which a newspaper fulfils its roles to democracy and society is partially found in the range of sources quoted in the news stories it publishes, and in the prominence and dominance it gives to various types of sources in those stories. Our goal was to quantify the validity of the widely held assumption that, in Australia, regional newspapers are closer than metropolitan newspapers to their readers. This suggestion guided our content analysis of the types of news story sources quoted or paraphrased in the general news published in four regional newspapers and one metropolitan newspaper in one Australian state. The assumption of closeness to readers for Australian regional newspapers did not hold up well in this test.

scholarly journals Hope or Fear? A Contemporary Portrayal of Immigrants in British Regional Newspapers

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Indeevari Dodantenna
Keyword(s):  
Population Decline ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
City Regions ◽  
Regional Newspapers ◽  
Local Media ◽  
The Press ◽  
Media Research ◽  
The Uk

How does the press represent immigrants? The leading scholarship in framing studies argues that immigrants are mostly represented negatively in the national press, which aligns with the dominant discourse. But does that negativity exist in the local newspapers too? Focusing on the immigration debate surrounding Brexit, the following study was set out to examine ten local newspapers from the most populous city regions in the UK during three snapshot time points from November 2018 to April 2019. The six-week period, which was mainly based on Brexit milestones, served as data collection points. The evidence suggests that local press coverage largely portrays immigrants in a favourable manner, proving support and highlighting their need and contribution. The said positivity was closely followed by the threat frame which depicts sentiments of fear, panic, burden and hostility. However, a shift in the positive discourse, towards threat, was noted during the mid-time point that was mainly fueled by the elite rhetoric. Among the findings, the Scottish open arms policy towards the immigrants is very significant. It is mainly linked to their local concerns, such as labour shortages and population decline. While the study contributes to the growing literature in local media research, it also highlights how domestic needs could push back on the dominant discourse.

scholarly journals Content online and the end of public media? The UK, a canary in the coal mine?

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 1202-1219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Collins
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Direct Payment ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Online Delivery ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
Public Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Pervasive Access

Online delivery of content has changed media advertising markets, undermining the business model which has underpinned provision of ‘public media’. Three business models have sustained mass media: direct payment for content, payment for advertising and state subsidy, and the author argues, contrary to others’ claims, that advertising finance has made possible production and provision of high-quality, pluralistic and affordable public media. In consequence, substitution of the internet as an advertising medium has undermined the system of finance which, in the UK and societies like it, sustained public media. Global advertising revenues have both fallen and been redistributed, though to differing degrees in different countries, with particularly deleterious effects on local newspapers. Prices have risen, original content production has fallen and reversion to a direct payment-for-content business model is pervasive. And this despite the growth of new entrant online media and established publicly funded media (notably public service broadcasters) resulting in the likelihood of a continued general worsening of affordable and pervasive access to high-quality and diverse public media.

‘Safety first’ versus ‘op de barricaden’

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelle W. Boumans ◽  
Rens Vliegenthart
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
News Media ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Regional Newspapers ◽  
National Newspaper ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Regional Newspaper ◽  
Safety First

‘Safety first’ versus ‘fighting on the barricades’: a content analysis of the nuclear debate in the Netherlands ‘Safety first’ versus ‘fighting on the barricades’: a content analysis of the nuclear debate in the Netherlands News content is often the result of an intense struggle between sources over the definition of an issue. This study content analyzes the agendas of the proponents and antagonists of nuclear energy in the Netherlands between 2002-2012 and investigates to what extent these agendas overlap with the news media agendas, including the often overlooked press agencies and regional newspapers. Analysis shows that the agenda of opponent Greenpeace – consisting of the themes of nuclear waste and risks – is slightly more visible in news agency and national newspaper content. Regional newspapers however tend to adopt the nuclear industry’s most dominant theme – safety. Interestingly enough, one regional newspaper seems to completely ignore the oppositional voice. This finding calls for a critical assessment of the relation between regional newspaper content and information subsidies.

News in brief

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (9) ◽  
pp. 6-6
Keyword(s):  
News Stories ◽  
The Uk

A roundup of the latest news stories and developments affecting practice managers in the UK

The regional newspaper industry value chain in the digital age

OR Insight ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Graham ◽  
John Hill
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Newspaper Industry ◽  
Industry Value Chain ◽  
Regional Newspaper

Creating and using Web corpora

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Thelwall
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Crawler ◽  
Commercial Search Engine ◽  
British National Corpus ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
The Web ◽  
National Corpus

The Web has recently been used as a corpus for linguistic investigations, often with the help of a commercial search engine. We discuss some potential problems with collecting data from commercial search engine and with using the Web as a corpus. We outline an alternative strategy for data collection, using a personal Web crawler. As a case study, the university Web sites of three nations (Australia, New Zealand and the UK) were crawled. The most frequent words were broadly consistent with non-Web written English, but with some academic-related words amongst the top 50 most frequent. It was also evident that the university Web sites contained a significant amount of non-English text, and academic Web English seems to be more future-oriented than British National Corpus written English.

scholarly journals Newspapers in Peril: Rationalizing the Economic Challenges of Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) upon Regional Journalists in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 96-107
Author(s):  
Farheen Qasim Nizamani ◽  
Muhammad Qasim Nizamani ◽  
Sikandar Hussain Soomro
Keyword(s):  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Health Hazard ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Newspaper Industry ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
Sindh Province ◽  
Regional Newspapers ◽  
The Media ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

Mass media play a decisive role in distributing health knowledge and awareness about health diseases. Covid-19 has been measured as the most dangerous health hazard of the 21st century that has constituted social, environmental and financial perils for humanity, including the media outlets. However, the Pakistani newspaper industry was already witnessing a decline in its readership and coronavirus has further deteriorated the situation for journalists working in regional newspapers. The methodological design using indepth interviews seeks to discover the financial difficulties faced by journalists employed in local or regional newspapers in Hyderabad city of Sindh province, Pakistan. The distress of unpaid salaries, financial security and paid leave were recognized as dominant elements that emerged during the present investigation as the extension to studies conducted concerning health communication. Therefore, this research suggests that government and business tycoons should financially collaborate with each other to consider challenges encountered by journalists for the survival of the newspaper industry in Pakistan.

scholarly journals Value Management Integration for Whole Life Cycle: Post COVID-19 Strategy for the UK Construction Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 9274
Author(s):  
Kieran Bennett ◽  
Mohammad Mayouf
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Value Management ◽  
Cost Cutting ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Whole Life Cycle

Value management (VM) and its integration in the whole life cycle (WLC) have become huge concepts for construction projects to provide additional value of an asset for the end user or client. However, the role of VM and its integration as part of the WLC in a construction project remain reactive, and highly impacted by nature of the project, and this has become more challenging with the epidemic impact of COVID-19. This research aims to investigate the mechanisms that delivers value management as part of the “re-invent” strategy proposed by the Construction Leadership Council in the UK government to improve WLC for buildings. In addition to existing secondary data from the literature, primary data were attained using a focus group with six quantity surveyors from different cost consultancies in the UK to gather qualitative evidence using their experiences, perceptions, and key challenges they face when integrating VM. Findings revealed that value management is primarily being used as a cost-cutting tool, the majority of quantity surveyors lack knowledge of what it encompasses, hence the industry needs a more proactive strategy towards it. Analysis revealed that value management is primarily implemented as a cost-cutting solution, key stakeholders (e.g., facility managers) need to be integrated, and there is no standardised process to incorporate value management in projects. The study proposes a four-dimensional (governance and policies, sustainability, industry’s best practice, and innovation and technology) strategy to facilitate more holistic considerations of value management post COVID-19. Future work looks into evaluating the strategy proposed while acknowledging different procurement routes.

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