List of tables

Notes on contributors

Introduction: Local news in a cold climate

Bob Franklin

David Murphy

Part I Local newspapers and local media

1 Changing times: local newspapers, technology and markets

Bob Franklin

David Murphy

2 Local radio: attuned to the times or filling time with tunes?

Andrew Crisell

3 News and current affairs in regional television broadcasting

Ralph Negrine

Rachel Eyre

4 Local visions: Cable television: the new local medium?

Granville Williams

Part II The economics of the local press

5 Instinct, savvy and ratlike cunning: training local journalists

Peter Cole

6 Earthquake undermines structure of local press ownership: many hurt

David Murphy

7 Industrial relations and the local press: the continuing employers' offensive

Gregor Gall

Part III Local newspapers: exploring the range

8 There is no alternative: the demise of the alternative local newspaper

Tony Harcup

9 Looking at the world through the eyes of ...: reporting the `local' in daily, weekly and Sunday local newspapers

Mike Glover

10 No news isn't good news: the development of local free newspapers

Bob Franklin

11 The local newspaper in the age of multimedia

Richard Beamish

Part IV Constructing the local news agenda

12 The local government agenda: news from the town hall

Shirley Harrison

13 Hungry media need fast food: the role of the Central Office of Information

Brent Garner

John Short

14 The changing role of the local journalist: from faithful chronicler of the parish pump to multiskilled compiler of an electronic database

Rod Pilling

15 The business of freelance journalism: some advice from an old hand

Peta Van den Bergh

Part V Read all about it: editorial content in the local press

16 Old habits die hard: journalism's changing professional commitments and local newspaper reporting of the 1997 general election

Bob Franklin

Jon Parry

17 Making race matter: an overview

Karen Ross

18 Economic news in local newspapers

Andrew Leather

19 Regulating the local press

Robert Pinker

Index