Making Local News

University of Chicago Press, Sep 24, 1991 - Political Science - 260 pages

Why do crimes and accidents earn more news coverage than development and policy issues affecting thousands of people? Filled with revealing interviews with both journalists and city officials, Making Local News is the first comprehensive look at how the economic motives of media owners, professional motives of journalists, and the strategies of media-wise politicians shape the news we see and hear, thereby influencing urban policy.

"Making Local News by Phyllis Kaniss . . . is significant. . . . If we can continue to get smarter about that which journalism leaves out or distorts in its coverage of politics, we may eventually get smarter about politics itself."—Mitchell Stephens, The Philadelphia Inquirer View

"A convincing analysis of the factors and forces which color how and why local issues do, or do not, become newsworthy." —Michael H. Ebner, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

"This work serves as a reminder of the importance of a medium that is often overlooked until economic realities threaten its very existence." —Choice

"Kaniss is truly a pioneer in the study of local news."—Susan Herbst, Contemporary Sociology

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Bibliographic information

Title	Making Local News
Author	Phyllis Kaniss
Edition	illustrated
Publisher	University of Chicago Press, 1991
ISBN	0226423476, 9780226423470
Length	260 pages
Subjects	Social Science › Sociology › General Political Science / General Social Science / Media Studies Social Science / Sociology / General

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