Media Deserts: Monitoring the Changing Media Ecosystem

Ferrier, Michelle; Sinha, Gaurav; Outrich, Michael

doi:10.1057/978-1-349-94925-0_14

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“…Today, compared with cities, people in rural areas die younger, have less formal education, have less social mobility, lower family net worth, worse access to hospitals, higher rates of infant mortality, and other disadvantages. Maps of “news deserts” also reveal that people in rural areas have less access to local news (Ferrier, Sinha, & Outrich, 2016). While national broadband penetration is a bit harder to generalize, a rural digital divide continues (Townsend, Sathiaseelan, Fairhurst, & Wallace, 2013).…”

Section: Context For Changing Places and The Changing Places Of Newsmentioning

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“…Some projects have substantiated the power dynamics of rich and poor at work (Lindgren & Wong, 2012) and clarify how public perceptions about the safety of various neighborhoods are connected to their news portrayals (Lindgren, 2011). The mapping projects that attempt to chart news deserts—sites where there is no local news—provide spatially distributed evidence of places where people simply lack any formal, institutionalized mechanism for learning about their communities (Ferrier et al, 2016).…”

Section: Journalism Studies and Placementioning

confidence: 99%

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Putting “Place” in the Center of Journalism Research: A Way Forward to Understand Challenges to Trust and Knowledge in News

Usher

2019

Journalism & Communication Monographs

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The U.S. journalism industry is facing unprecedented challenges from questions of economic stability, rising antimedia sentiment among the government and the public, new technologies that have democratizing effects on news production, and the lowest levels of trust in journalism in decades. At the same time, the United States is facing structural inequality and political polarization that has taken on a distinctly place-based dimension. Taken together, the places of news have changed, both because of forces inside and outside journalism: The places where journalists do their work have changed, not only in an immediate sense of their own work routines but also because of the larger place-based realignment in the United States. This monograph argues that place must be at the center of scholarly and industry analysis to better understand the challenges to professional journalism today.

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Section: Context For Changing Places and The Changing Places Of Newsmentioning

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Section: Journalism Studies and Placementioning

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Putting “Place” in the Center of Journalism Research: A Way Forward to Understand Challenges to Trust and Knowledge in News

Usher

2019

Journalism & Communication Monographs

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“…Durante las dos últimas décadas, el modelo mediático tradicional de la prensa local ha sufrido una profunda crisis (Franklin, 2006;Wadbring y Bergström, 2017), que ha derivado en el cese de cabeceras, recortes de personal, cierre de delegaciones y pérdida de cobertura periodística en los ámbitos más cercanos a los ciudadanos. Esta situación, observada a nivel internacional, ha dejado sin información local grandes áreas geográficas, originando los denominados desiertos mediáticos (Bucay, Elliot, Kamin y Park, 2017;Ferrier, Sinha y Outrich, 2016). La carencia de un mediador informativo entre los órganos de poder y los ciudadanos ha despertado la preocupación por el déficit de la función democrática que los medios de proximidad ejercen en las comunidades locales (Ahva y Wiard, 2018;Barnett y Townend, 2015;(Chen et al, 2017); Harcup, 2016).…”

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Mapa y características de los cibermedios locales e hiperlocales en España

Negreira-Rey

García

Vázquez-Herrero

2020

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Durante las dos últimas décadas, el modelo mediático tradicional de la prensa local ha sufrido una profunda crisis que, unida a la económica, ha derivado en el cierre de cabeceras y recortes de personal. La creciente necesidad de una oferta informativa local veraz y la adversa realidad laboral en el sector comunicativo han motivado a muchos periodistas a fundar sus propios medios locales e hiperlocales al amparo de la red. En esta investigación se realiza un estudio exploratorio para elaborar el primer mapa de cibermedios locales e hiperlocales activos en España, con el objetivo de conocer la presencia de este tipo de medios en el Estado. Posteriormente, estos cibermedios se someten a un análisis de contenido para identificar sus características básicas y tendencias de desarrollo. Los resultados evidencian un crecimiento relevante de los cibermedios locales e hiperlocales en el país, así como unos rasgos que reflejan la búsqueda de nuevos modelos informativos desde la proximidad.

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“…Other mapping efforts detail “news deserts” or “media deserts” (Stites, 2011), places where there is no regular local news. These maps are both real and metaphorical deserts for news—where no news can be found (Ferrier et al, 2016). They not only reveal the absence of journalists and thus critique the disappearance of place-based knowledge, but also document how the lack of journalists contributes to a growing population of “unnewsed” (Benton, 2017).…”

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News cartography and epistemic authority in the era of big data: Journalists as map-makers, map-users, and map-subjects

Usher

2020

New Media & Society

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Although the destabilization of journalism’s epistemic authority has been widely discussed, one critical element has been underexplored—the role of place. For journalists, claiming provenance over “where” has enabled control over a domain of knowledge, and one key means for doing so has been through news cartography, now rendered digitally. However, digital news cartography (digital news maps) exposes journalists’ epistemic authority to new challenges, from reliance on big data collected by others to maps about journalism itself that show journalists’ diminished authority over place. The case of digital news maps offers a chance to interrogate how journalists know what they know and how they know it and, more broadly, begs the question of how place and mapping must be considered in new media research.

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Media Deserts: Monitoring the Changing Media Ecosystem

Cited by 38 publications

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Putting “Place” in the Center of Journalism Research: A Way Forward to Understand Challenges to Trust and Knowledge in News

Putting “Place” in the Center of Journalism Research: A Way Forward to Understand Challenges to Trust and Knowledge in News

Mapa y características de los cibermedios locales e hiperlocales en España

News cartography and epistemic authority in the era of big data: Journalists as map-makers, map-users, and map-subjects

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