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This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by Abramis Academic, 2022.
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This paper reports on current issues in research into local media and journalism, and identifies ethical implications emerging from these investigations. It explores the key concepts of locality and community – and considers in turn six key issues: power relations, historical continuity/discontinuity, sustainability, local media gaps/deserts, a collaborative turn, regulatory intervention and subsidy systems. We find these explorations keep returning to the tensions between forms and models of local journalism which deliver benefit for the public and for the elites – powerful commercial, corporate or political interests. A journalism which serves public benefits, we suggest, facilitates and is immersed in the practices and processes of community. Research suggests that, in some regions, local media are at a point of transition from a predominantly profit-seeking approach towards one which focuses on sustainable delivery of public benefit. But we find that on that point of inflection, the future of local media and journalism is finely balanced
Author(s): Baines D, Gulyas A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics
Year: 2022
Volume: 18
Issue: 3-4
Pages: 7-19
Print publication date: 01/01/2022
Online publication date: 30/12/2021
Acceptance date: 01/10/2021
Date deposited: 31/03/2022
ISSN (print): 1742-0105
Publisher: Abramis Academic
URL: http://www.abramis.co.uk/ethical-space/journal/v18n3-4/v18n3-4.pdf
Notes: ISBN: 9781845497958
