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Deserted Local News: Exploring News Deserts From a Journalistic Recruitment Perspective
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Abstract An emerging body of research addresses how news deserts cause democratic deficits. This literature is mostly concerned with the closure of local news outlets. The present study was carried out in Norway, a country characterised by rich local media infrastructure. However, recruiting skilled and trai... mehr
An emerging body of research addresses how news deserts cause democratic deficits. This literature is mostly concerned with the closure of local news outlets. The present study was carried out in Norway, a country characterised by rich local media infrastructure. However, recruiting skilled and trained journalists to staff this infrastructure is challenging. Based on qualitative interviews with editors and journalism students (N = 21), this article explores the lack of skilled local journalists at small local newspapers, through a job attractiveness lens, and exposes how economic, geographic, and professional prestige factors contribute to labour deficits, identified as a brain drain threat in local journalism. The study expands the news desert research beyond the closure of local newspapers to encompass journalist labour deficits in an otherwise stable and diverse local media environment and discusses professional, societal, and political implications of the recruitment problem.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Brain Drain; Norwegen; Journalismus; Arbeitskräfte; Rekrutierung; Zeitung; journalistischer Beruf
Klassifikation
Kommunikatorforschung, Journalismus
Freie Schlagwörter
job attractiveness; journalistic recruitment; local journalism; news desert
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 390-400
Zeitschriftentitel
Media and Communication, 11 (2023) 3
Heftthema
News Deserts: Places and Spaces Without News
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)