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Ethical implications of key concepts and issues in current local media research

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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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Abstract

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


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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


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