Rachel Matthews is Associate Director in the Institute of Creative Cultures at Coventry University, England. She researches the past, present and future of the provincial newspaper industry. Her academic interest builds on her career working across editorial departments in weekly and daily titles in the UK. Guy Hodgson is a lecturer for the Open University, UK, and, on a sessional basis, Liverpool John Moores University, England. His research interest is the reporting of historical events by local and national newspapers. He has worked as a journalist and lecturer for 50 years.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of Contributors PrefaceIntroduction: Perspectives on the local newspaper. Rachel MatthewsSection 1. Local newspapers as information providerChapter 1: Processes, Platforms, and Pay Models: How Local News Organisations in Five European Countries Are Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of DigitalisationJoy JenkinsChapter 2: Unravelling the discourses of hyperlocal journalismDave HarteChapter 3: Closing the democratic deficit? Hyperlocal news sites need help to come to the rescue of socially deprived communitiesDave ToomerChapter 4: Local media and territory in DenmarkFlemming SvithSection 2. Making money from local newspapersChapter 5: The many incarnations of the local newspaper in India.Priya Rajasekar and Shriram VenkatramanChapter 6: Community, the public good and the market: media merger regulation and the crisis in Ireland’s local newspaper industryAnthony CawleyChapter 7: Navigating turbulent times: organisational culture and its impact on local newspapers. Sarah O’HaraChapter 8: Shaping the new local: the future of local journalism in the public discourse of collective actors in the USA.Joaquin CestinoSection 3. Local newspapers and communityChapter 9: ‘I see myself as Batman: I’m doing it in the name of the local community.’ Addressing the complexity of the relationship between the local, the local audience and local journalistsLenka WaschkovaChapter 10: The Basque identity through the territorial representation of the Basque mediaEneko Bidegain, Ainhoa Larranga and Igor Agirre.Chapter 11: Rise and fall, rise and fall: The long life and final demise of UK regional newspapersTor ClarkChapter 12: Britain’s local papers: Can they switch from commodifying community to doing community? David BainesIndex

Rachel Matthews is Associate Director in the Institute of Creative Cultures at Coventry University, England. She researches the past, present and future of the provincial newspaper industry. Her academic interest builds on her career working across editorial departments in weekly and daily titles in the UK. Guy Hodgson is a lecturer for the Open University, UK, and, on a sessional basis, Liverpool John Moores University, England. His research interest is the reporting of historical events by local and national newspapers. He has worked as a journalist and lecturer for 50 years.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of Contributors PrefaceIntroduction: Perspectives on the local newspaper. Rachel MatthewsSection 1. Local newspapers as information providerChapter 1: Processes, Platforms, and Pay Models: How Local News Organisations in Five European Countries Are Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of DigitalisationJoy JenkinsChapter 2: Unravelling the discourses of hyperlocal journalismDave HarteChapter 3: Closing the democratic deficit? Hyperlocal news sites need help to come to the rescue of socially deprived communitiesDave ToomerChapter 4: Local media and territory in DenmarkFlemming SvithSection 2. Making money from local newspapersChapter 5: The many incarnations of the local newspaper in India.Priya Rajasekar and Shriram VenkatramanChapter 6: Community, the public good and the market: media merger regulation and the crisis in Ireland’s local newspaper industryAnthony CawleyChapter 7: Navigating turbulent times: organisational culture and its impact on local newspapers. Sarah O’HaraChapter 8: Shaping the new local: the future of local journalism in the public discourse of collective actors in the USA.Joaquin CestinoSection 3. Local newspapers and communityChapter 9: ‘I see myself as Batman: I’m doing it in the name of the local community.’ Addressing the complexity of the relationship between the local, the local audience and local journalistsLenka WaschkovaChapter 10: The Basque identity through the territorial representation of the Basque mediaEneko Bidegain, Ainhoa Larranga and Igor Agirre.Chapter 11: Rise and fall, rise and fall: The long life and final demise of UK regional newspapersTor ClarkChapter 12: Britain’s local papers: Can they switch from commodifying community to doing community? David BainesIndex

Rachel Matthews is Associate Director in the Institute of Creative Cultures at Coventry University, England. She researches the past, present and future of the provincial newspaper industry. Her academic interest builds on her career working across editorial departments in weekly and daily titles in the UK. Guy Hodgson is a lecturer for the Open University, UK, and, on a sessional basis, Liverpool John Moores University, England. His research interest is the reporting of historical events by local and national newspapers. He has worked as a journalist and lecturer for 50 years.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of Contributors PrefaceIntroduction: Perspectives on the local newspaper. Rachel MatthewsSection 1. Local newspapers as information providerChapter 1: Processes, Platforms, and Pay Models: How Local News Organisations in Five European Countries Are Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of DigitalisationJoy JenkinsChapter 2: Unravelling the discourses of hyperlocal journalismDave HarteChapter 3: Closing the democratic deficit? Hyperlocal news sites need help to come to the rescue of socially deprived communitiesDave ToomerChapter 4: Local media and territory in DenmarkFlemming SvithSection 2. Making money from local newspapersChapter 5: The many incarnations of the local newspaper in India.Priya Rajasekar and Shriram VenkatramanChapter 6: Community, the public good and the market: media merger regulation and the crisis in Ireland’s local newspaper industryAnthony CawleyChapter 7: Navigating turbulent times: organisational culture and its impact on local newspapers. Sarah O’HaraChapter 8: Shaping the new local: the future of local journalism in the public discourse of collective actors in the USA.Joaquin CestinoSection 3. Local newspapers and communityChapter 9: ‘I see myself as Batman: I’m doing it in the name of the local community.’ Addressing the complexity of the relationship between the local, the local audience and local journalistsLenka WaschkovaChapter 10: The Basque identity through the territorial representation of the Basque mediaEneko Bidegain, Ainhoa Larranga and Igor Agirre.Chapter 11: Rise and fall, rise and fall: The long life and final demise of UK regional newspapersTor ClarkChapter 12: Britain’s local papers: Can they switch from commodifying community to doing community? David BainesIndex