The What, Where, and Why of Local News in the United States

2020 ◽  
pp. 419-426
Author(s):  
Angela M. Lee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Local News

The Ecosystems of Localism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Ali
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Local News ◽  
Cultural Sovereignty ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Local Media

This chapter analyzes attempts in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom to evaluate their respective local media ecosystems. It begins by defining ecosystem and discusses the importance of ecosystem thinking when considering local news and local media within a specific geographic community. The case studies here include the FCC’s Information Needs of Communities report from 2010 (the “Waldman Report”), Ofcom’s Local and Regional Media report from 2009, and Canada’s Our Cultural Sovereignty Report (the “Lincoln Report”) from 2003. The chapter both laments the lack of attention given these reports, and argues for the importance of thinking holistically about local media especially when it comes to encouraging local news.

Educating Journalism Students About News Archives: A Global Comparison With Special Focus on Spain and the United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubén Domínguez-Delgado ◽  
Kathleen A. Hansen ◽  
Nora Paul
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Science Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Local News ◽  
Global Comparison ◽  
Current State ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Journalism Students

Journalists and news archivists are natural allies. Journalists require previously published reporting as context for their new stories. Archivists ensure that material is preserved for future retrieval. Local news archives serve as a cultural, legal, economic, and genealogical resource for their communities. Now, the archiving function in news organizations is relegated to information vendors with little input from journalists. Rarely are journalism and archiving coupled in programs that train future professionals. This article explores the current state of journalism and library science education globally and suggests ways to strengthen education in news archiving in these programs.

The Gender Gap in Online News Comment Sections

2019 ◽  
pp. 089443931986487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Van Duyn ◽  
Cynthia Peacock ◽  
Natalie Jomini Stroud
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online News ◽  
Political Discussion ◽  
Local News ◽  
Probability Sample

Women are less likely than men to discuss or engage in politics. This study extends research on the gender gap in politics to an online context by exploring whether women are less likely to engage in political discussion online, whether this follows socialization theories of a private versus public sphere distinction, and whether perceptions of incivility help to explain these gender differences. Through a survey of commenters and comment readers based on a probability sample in the United States ( n = 965) and a survey of actual commenters and comment readers across 20 news sites ( n = 12,110), we find that women are less likely than men to comment online, particularly on state, national, or international topics. However, women are more likely than men to comment on local news. We also find that perceptions of incivility are related to commenting, although they do little to explain gender differences in commenting. Our results suggest that the gender gap in online political discussion is the product of women’s political socialization more so than the civility of the site.

Searching for Sheboygans: On the future of small market newspapers

Journalism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Ali ◽  
Damian Radcliffe ◽  
Thomas R Schmidt ◽  
Rosalind Donald
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Knowledge Gap ◽  
Local News ◽  
Small Market ◽  
The Future ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article addresses the knowledge gap regarding small market newspapers in the United States. We address a deceptively simple research question: what is the state of small market newspapers in the United States as seen through the eyes of practitioners and industry experts? Based on in-depth interviews with experts and practitioners, we argue for a more nuanced vocabulary to describe newspapers and local news. Grouping all newspapers into a monolithic industry – as general sector analyses often do – suggests a homogeneous experience. That is not the case. Smaller publications face their own challenges and opportunities, and they define success and innovation on their own terms. This reality needs to be better understood.

Sinclair broadcasting as mini-media empire: media regulation, disinfomercials, and the rise of Trumpism

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1377-1391
Author(s):  
Chuck Tryon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Local News ◽  
Cable News ◽  
Significant Control ◽  
Media Regulation ◽  
Political Stance ◽  
Political Media ◽  
Substantial Control

This article argues that Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBG) should be read as a mini-network, one that has used lenient regulations to build a vast empire of affiliate stations, which allows them to maintain substantial control over local news in markets across the United States. In turn, drawing from close readings of SBG news segments, this essay argues that SBG has used this platform to promote a conservative political stance, one that deploys the discourses of mediated populism. Finally, although research on political media has tended to focus on cable news, it is important to analyze the ways in which SBG and other affiliate owners can exert significant control over local news, one of the most trusted sources of news for many people in the United States.

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

Digital image acquisition, processing, and analysis in a polymer microscopy laboratory

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
Vinod K. Berry ◽  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Image Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Image Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Image

In recent years it became apparent that we needed to improve productivity and efficiency in the Microscopy Laboratories in GE Plastics. It was realized that digital image acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis, and transmission over a network would be the best way to achieve this goal. Also, the capabilities of quantitative image analysis, image transmission etc. available with this approach would help us to increase our efficiency. Although the advantages of digital image acquisition, processing, archiving, etc. have been described and are being practiced in many SEM, laboratories, they have not been generally applied in microscopy laboratories (TEM, Optical, SEM and others) and impact on increased productivity has not been yet exploited as well.In order to attain our objective we have acquired a SEMICAPS imaging workstation for each of the GE Plastic sites in the United States. We have integrated the workstation with the microscopes and their peripherals as shown in Figure 1.

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