David Harte is an associate professor within the Birmingham Institute of Media and English at Birmingham City University. He is co-author of Hyperlocal Journalism, published by Routledge. He has published widely on community and hyperlocal media, as well as running his own hyperlocal news website in Birmingham since 2010.Rachel Matthews is Associate Head of the School of Media and Performing Arts at Coventry University. A former journalist, her research focuses on the local newspaper - past, present and future. She is the author of A History of the Provincial Press in England published by Bloomsbury Academic.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: local public service journalism and the BBCDavid Harte Local news deserts.Agnes Gulyas All in, all together? Government subsidy for news.Jonathan Heawood British community journalism’s response to the COVID 19 pandemic.Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Iñaki Garcia-Blanco and Julia Boelle Supporting hyperlocal reporting: global funding, local voices.Sarah Cheverton Who’s cashing in? Reappraising the economic value of independent community news.Clare Cook and Coral Milburn-Curtis Community Radio as Citizen Journalism.Aleksandar Kocic, Josephine Coleman, Jerry Padfield, Jelena Milicev Local data journalism practice in the UKJingrong Tong Considering slow local news.Mark Dunford

David Harte is an associate professor within the Birmingham Institute of Media and English at Birmingham City University. He is co-author of Hyperlocal Journalism, published by Routledge. He has published widely on community and hyperlocal media, as well as running his own hyperlocal news website in Birmingham since 2010.Rachel Matthews is Associate Head of the School of Media and Performing Arts at Coventry University. A former journalist, her research focuses on the local newspaper - past, present and future. She is the author of A History of the Provincial Press in England published by Bloomsbury Academic.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: local public service journalism and the BBCDavid Harte Local news deserts.Agnes Gulyas All in, all together? Government subsidy for news.Jonathan Heawood British community journalism’s response to the COVID 19 pandemic.Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Iñaki Garcia-Blanco and Julia Boelle Supporting hyperlocal reporting: global funding, local voices.Sarah Cheverton Who’s cashing in? Reappraising the economic value of independent community news.Clare Cook and Coral Milburn-Curtis Community Radio as Citizen Journalism.Aleksandar Kocic, Josephine Coleman, Jerry Padfield, Jelena Milicev Local data journalism practice in the UKJingrong Tong Considering slow local news.Mark Dunford

David Harte is an associate professor within the Birmingham Institute of Media and English at Birmingham City University. He is co-author of Hyperlocal Journalism, published by Routledge. He has published widely on community and hyperlocal media, as well as running his own hyperlocal news website in Birmingham since 2010.Rachel Matthews is Associate Head of the School of Media and Performing Arts at Coventry University. A former journalist, her research focuses on the local newspaper - past, present and future. She is the author of A History of the Provincial Press in England published by Bloomsbury Academic.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: local public service journalism and the BBCDavid Harte Local news deserts.Agnes Gulyas All in, all together? Government subsidy for news.Jonathan Heawood British community journalism’s response to the COVID 19 pandemic.Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Iñaki Garcia-Blanco and Julia Boelle Supporting hyperlocal reporting: global funding, local voices.Sarah Cheverton Who’s cashing in? Reappraising the economic value of independent community news.Clare Cook and Coral Milburn-Curtis Community Radio as Citizen Journalism.Aleksandar Kocic, Josephine Coleman, Jerry Padfield, Jelena Milicev Local data journalism practice in the UKJingrong Tong Considering slow local news.Mark Dunford