The Value of UK Hyperlocal Community News
The Value of UK Hyperlocal Community News
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英国超本地化社区新闻的价值
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2015
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Jerome Turner
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Andy E. Williams;D. Harte;Jerome Turner
新闻的公共利益价值通常是通过其与民主的关系来看待的。在这方面，新闻应该充当： 为公民提供准确和多元化信息的来源；精英的监督者；社区调解员和/或代表；并在竞选活动中作为公众的倡导者。所有这些角色在英国商业本地新闻领域都面临着压力。这导致许多人猜测，通常没有证据，新一代（主要是在线）超本地化公民新闻制作者的产出可能（至少部分地）扮演其中一些角色。为了检验这一假设，我们完成了对制作人的 34 次半结构化访谈、迄今为止对英国超本地化新闻内容的最大内容分析（313 个网站上有 1941 个帖子），以及有史以来对英国社区新闻从业者的最大调查（183 个回复）。我们发现这些网站提供了大量有关社区活动、当地政治、公民生活和当地商业的新闻。官方新闻来源拥有强大的平台，但公众（当地公民、社区团体）比许多主流当地新闻拥有更多的发言权。尽管传统意义上的平衡报道很少，但许多社区记者已经制定了替代策略，以促进和告知围绕有争议的当地问题的多元化辩论。大多数超本地化新闻制作人都会报道社区活动，也有少数人发起了自己的活动。我们还发现，关键的公共利益调查是由大量（令人惊讶的）社区新闻制作者进行的。
The public interest value of news is often viewed through the prism of its relationship to democracy. In this respect news should act as: a source of accurate and plural information for citizens; a watchdog on elites; a mediator and/or representative of communities; and as an advocate of the public in campaigning terms. All of these roles are under pressure in the United Kingdom’s commercial local news sector. This has led many to speculate, often without evidence, that the output of a new generation of (mainly online) hyperlocal citizen news producers might (at least partially) play some of these roles. To test this assumption, we completed 34 semi-structured interviews with producers, the largest content analysis to date of UK hyperlocal news content (1941 posts on 313 sites), and the largest ever survey of UK community news practitioners (183 responses). We found that these sites produce a good deal of news about community activities, local politics, civic life and local business. Official news sources get a strong platform, but the public (local citizens, community groups) get more of a say than in much mainstream local news. Although there was little balanced coverage in the traditional sense, many community journalists have developed alternative strategies to foster and inform plural debate around contentious local issues. The majority of hyperlocal news producers cover community campaigns and a significant minority have initiated their own. We also found that critical public-interest investigations are carried out by a (surprisingly) large number of community news producers.