Community journalism is locally oriented, professional news coverage that typically focuses on city neighborhoods, individual suburbs or small towns, rather than metropolitan, state, national or world news.[1]
If it covers wider topics, community journalism Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and comment via a widening spectrum of media. These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and even, more recently, the cellphone. Journalists—be they writers, editors or photographers; broadcast presenters or producers—serve as the chief purveyors of concentrates on their effect on local readers. Community newspapers A newspaper is a publication containing news, information, and advertising. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on political events, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports. Most traditional papers also feature an editorial page containing columns that express the personal opinions of writers. Supplementary sections, often but not always published weekly Such newspapers tend to have smaller circulations than daily newspapers, and are usually based in less-populous communities or small, defined areas within large cities; often, they may cover a smaller territory, such as one or more smaller towns or an entire county. Frequently, weeklies cover local news and engage in community journalism, also tend to cover subjects larger news media do not, such as students on the honor roll at the local high school, school sports, crimes such as vandalism, zoning issues and other details of community life.[2][3] Sometimes dismissed as "chicken dinner" stories, such "hyperlocal" coverage often plays a vital role in building and maintaining neighborhoods.[4]
Leo Lerner Leo A. Lerner was an American newspaper editor and publisher, who founded Lerner Newspapers, at one time the largest chain of weekly newspapers in the world, founder of Chicago Chicago ( /ʃɨˈkɑːɡoʊ/ or /ʃɨˈkɔːɡoʊ/) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and with over 2.8 million people is the third largest city in the United States. Located on the southwestern shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago is the third-most densely populated major city in the U.S., and anchor to the world's 26th largest's erstwhile Lerner Newspapers Lerner Newspapers, once the largest chain of weekly newspapers in the world, was a force in community journalism in Chicago from 1926 to 2005, used to say, "A fistfight on Clark Street is more important to our readers than a war in Europe."
In the United States, about 97 percent of newspapers are classified as "community" newspapers, with circulations below 50,000. Their combined circulation, nearly 109 million, is triple that of the combined circulation of the country's large daily newspapers.[1]
An increasing number of community newspapers are now owned by large media organizations, although many rural papers are still "mom and pop" operations.[citation needed]
Community journalists are typically trained professional reporters and editors. Community journalism should not be confused with the work of citizen journalists Citizen journalism is the concept of members of the public "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information," according to the seminal 2003 report We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information. Authors Bowman and Willis say: "The intent of this, who are often unpaid amateurs, or with civic journalism The civic journalism movement is, according to professor David K. Perry of the University of Alabama, an attempt to abandon the notion that journalists and their audiences are spectators in political and social processes. In its place, the civic journalism movement seeks to treat readers and community members as participants. With a small but, although many community newspapers practice that.[citation needed]
Organizations
- The International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors, which has 260 members in seven countries (U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand), encourages and promotes independent editorial comment, news content, and leadership in community newspapers throughout the world. Its purpose is to help those involved in the community press improve standards of editorial writing and news reporting and to encourage strong, independent editorial voices.
See also
References
- ^ a b E.W. Scripps School of Journalism: What is 'community journalism'?
- ^ E.W. Scripps School of Journalism: What's the difference?
- ^ E.W. Scripps School of Journalism: "CJ and the Jena 6"
- ^ Community Building Through Community Journalism
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