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BREAKING BOUNDARIES

Recasting the “local” newspaper as “geo-social” news in a digital landscape

Kristy Hess School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, 3217, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 48-63 | Published online: 01 Nov 2012

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Anna Grøndahl Larsen & Anja Aaheim Naper. (2022) Reporting Through Patriotic Lenses: How Journalists and Political Actors Understand and Assess the Community Role of Local Journalism. Journalism Studies 23:12, pages 1472-1487.
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Raul Rios-Rodríguez, Sara Fernández-López, Adrián Dios-Vicente & David Rodeiro-Pazos. (2022) Digital Opportunities for Local Journalism: A Panel Data Analysis on the Economic Performance of Online-Only vs. Print Newspapers. Digital Journalism 0:0, pages 1-20.
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Henrik Örnebring & Amy Schmitz Weiss. (2021) Journalism and the Politics of Mobility. Journalism Studies 22:14, pages 1894-1910.
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Joy Jenkins & Pedro Jerónimo. (2021) Changing the Beat? Local Online Newsmaking in Finland, France, Germany, Portugal, and the U.K. Journalism Practice 15:9, pages 1222-1239.
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Richard Jones. (2021) “It’s the Best Job on the Paper” – The Courts Beat During the Journalism Crisis. Journalism Practice 15:9, pages 1307-1328.
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Lenka Waschková Císařová. (2021) The Aftertaste you Cannot Erase. Career Histories, Emotions and Emotional Management in Local Newsrooms. Journalism Studies 22:12, pages 1665-1681.
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Veera Kangaspunta. (2020) Locally, Regionally and Nationally Online: Online News Comments Sections as Public Arenas in Geographically Anchored Media Structures. Javnost - The Public 27:3, pages 266-286.
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Agnes Gulyas, Sarah O’Hara & Jon Eilenberg. (2019) Experiencing Local News Online: Audience Practices and Perceptions. Journalism Studies 20:13, pages 1846-1863.
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Lars-Ole Wehden & Daniela Stoltenberg. (2019) So Far, Yet So Close. Journalism Studies 20:10, pages 1400-1420.
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Sara Leckner, Carina Tenor & Gunnar Nygren. (2019) What About the Hyperlocals?. Journalism Practice 13:1, pages 68-89.
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Rasmus Kleis Nielsen. (2016) Folk Theories of Journalism. Journalism Studies 17:7, pages 840-848.
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Kristy Hess. (2016) Power to the virtuous?. Journalism Studies 17:7, pages 925-934.
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Scott Eldridge$suffix/text()$suffix/text() & John Steel. (2016) Normative expectations. Journalism Studies 17:7, pages 817-826.
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Brett Oppegaard & Michael K. Rabby. (2016) Proximity. Digital Journalism 4:5, pages 621-638.
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Kristy Hess & Lisa Waller. (2016) River Flows and Profit Flows. Journalism Studies 17:3, pages 263-276.
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Folker Hanusch. (2015) A Different Breed Altogether?. Journalism Studies 16:6, pages 816-833.
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Kristy Hess. (2015) Making Connections. Journalism Studies 16:4, pages 482-496.
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Zizi Papacharissi. (2015) Toward New Journalism(s). Journalism Studies 16:1, pages 27-40.
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Kristy Hess & Lisa Waller. (2014) Geo-Social Journalism. Journalism Practice 8:2, pages 121-136.
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Kristy Hess, Angela Blakston, Jerry Lai, Alison McAdam & Lisa Waller. (2023) Untapped Potential? Exploring the ‘Latent’ Local Newspaper Reader in Digital Spaces. Journal of Communication Inquiry, pages 019685992211510.
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Gabi Mocatta, Eve Mayes, Kristy Hess & Michael Everitt Hartup. (2022) The trouble with ‘quiet advocacy’: local journalism and reporting climate change in rural and regional Australia. Media, Culture & Society 45:1, pages 157-177.
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Kristy Hess. (2015) Ritual power: Illuminating the blind spot of births, deaths and marriages in news media research. Journalism 17:4, pages 511-526.
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