Centres and Peripheries: Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Journalism in the Twenty-First Century - Hardcover

David Hutchison And Hugh O Donnell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1443826715 ISBN 13: 9781443826716

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

The essays in this collection explore centre/periphery relationships in journalism on a wide geographical canvas the British Isles, Europe, North America and Australasia. The authors academics and journalists explore a range of issues including: Varying news agendas; News agendas and regional/national identities; News agendas and ownership patterns; The viability of regional/non-metropolitan media hubs; Media policy at national and non-national levels; Language and non-metropolitan journalism; Peripheries within peripheries. The authors take full account of the technological and financial challenges facing journalism in the digital age.

About this title

About the Author:

David Hutchison is Visiting Professor in Media Policy at Glasgow Caledonian University and has been involved with journalism education for over twenty years. Among his publications are Media Policy and The Media in Scotland (co-editor). He was formerly a member of the BBC's General Advisory Council and currently chairs Regional Screen Scotland. Hugh O'Donnell is Professor of Language and Popular Culture at Glasgow Caledonian University. He specialises in cross-cultural analysis of popular cultural products, focusing mainly on soap operas, mediated sport and representations of monarchy. His publications include Good Times, Bad Times: Soap Opera and Society in Western Europe and Media and Monarchy and Power (with Neil Blain). He is currently involved in the Framework 6 DYLAN Integrated Project on multilingualism in Europe.

Review:

'Centres and Peripheries provides a timely and much-needed focus on the implications of digital technologies and cultural politics for that large and important segment of the journalism industry which is carried on away from the metropolitan mainstream. Incorporating original, empirically rich material, Hutchison and O Donnell have put together an immensely valuable set of essays by practitioners and scholars.' --Brian McNair, Professor of Journalism, Queensland University of Technology

'This book tells a story that everyone interested in public discourse should read. It takes the reader on a journey covering rich and varied examples of how big media sometimes override local media, and how local media in many cases adjust, adapt and also develop new ways forward. Books that are equally suited to inform practitioners, scholars and students alike on such important topics as the future of journalism are rare and precious. This is one of them.' --Tom Moring, Professor of Communication and Journalism, University of Helsinki, Finland

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1443826715
• ISBN 13: 9781443826716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 305
• Editor: David Hutchison, Hugh O'Donnell