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The article discusses the media education potential of regional journalism. The relevance of the study is due to the need for mass media education as a necessary response to the challenges of the constantly saturated information and communication environment in which people live in the digital age, and the increased role of the media in this process. It is noted that media education activities of journalism are determined as a strategically important direction for the development of modern society. An overview of the state of print and online media, which are part of the Lipetsk newspaper publishing house, is presented from the point of view of their use of convergence achievements at the technological level of information presentation. The novelty of the study is seen in the proposed approach to assessing the media education potential of the regional publishing house as a whole, rather than its individual components. The authors note the problems of regional publications in mastering the possibilities of the internet space, which hinder the development of media education potential. It is proven that it is precisely the integration of new media into traditional formats of information presentation that significantly increases consumer interest in such sources, promotes the establishment of interactive relationships, and increases the media culture of the population. It is emphasized that a combination of classical work forms with multimedia capabilities creates a strong media education base for the media.

Local journalism has received increasing attention and recognition from scholars as well as in public and political debate. However, challenges and downsizing in media businesses raise concerns about blind spots, with possible impacts on diversity, local democracy and civic engagement. This article discusses the concept of blind spots and diversity, investigating trends and patterns in local and regional journalism based on a content analysis of 24 local and regional media sources in Norway. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, television stations in Rio Grande do Sul have gone through restructuring processes that have contributed to the extinction or reduction of regional news spaces. The broadcaster RBS TV still meets, in a way, this demand, even if, gradually, it has been reducing its operations in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul. The study aims to problematize the importance of regional journalism, especially television, within the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The analysis was focused on the RBS TV station, specifically on the Jornal do Almoço program. Through the observation methodology (GIL, 2008), six editions of the television news were analyzed during the period of one week. The observational method was aimed at verifying the time allocated to each region in relation to the total time of the television news and which subjects were dealt with by each regional segment. In addition, considerations were presented on the observations of the editions analyzed. As a result, it could be seen that, over the years, the RBS TV station is gradually reducing access to information for communities in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In May 2020 at the height of Australia's first national COVID lockdown, NewsCorp Australia announced that more than 125 regional newspapers would either be closed or become available online-only. Queensland was hit hard with 22 regional and 20 community newspapers shifting to online formats, and 15 community newspapers closing. Yet within months of the NewsCorp changes, a significant number of new print newspapers were being announced to fill the 'news deserts'. Broadly welcomed by those in these local communities, the new publications suggest a reinvigoration of long-standing norms and tenets, many of which are specific to regional print news media, such as community-centred, locally-shaped news values and high reliance on 'micro-ads' (i.e. classifieds) and hyper-local business revenue. But given the dire prognostications about print business models, what are the aims and intentions of these start-ups (n = 22), and how do they translate their notions of community-centric news into business models they perceive as viable? Drawing on Hanitzsch and Vos framework for the discursive constructions of journalists' role in society, we find these newspaper start-ups both reassert and claim more vigorously the normative values associated with community journalism as 'social glue', while also developing 'lean start-up' business models that capitalise on the sense of a local newspaper's 'social good' functions through an affective rationale. We argue this represents a shift to a new 'hybrid' model, with strong elements of a traditional and still feisty monitorial news values fusing with a more 'morale-enhancing' and explicitly social cohesion-centric role conceptions. We call it a 'community cohesion model'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Almost 200 journalism outlets closed, decreased their service, ended print editions, or merged with other newsrooms between January 2019 and Februrary 2021, accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis. Regional news outlets were among the hardest hit, intensifying calls for effective government policy and industry interventions to bolster the sector. Although there is a well-established tradition of local and regional journalistic role performance scholarship, few studies in an Australian context have taken a multiplatform approach, investigating the perceptions of TV, radio, online news, and print journalists. To help address this gap, this paper draws on survey data of 307 regional Australian journalists and 31 in-depth interviews. Our analysis reveals differences in the way regional reporters understand and narrate their roles, highlighting important distinctions between media platforms that need to be considered in contemporary debates about the sustainability of Australian regional journalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Regional journalism has its own characteristics. These peculiarities implicate from location until the content. The work we carried out was concerned with identifying the news media in the interior of the State of Paraná, notably the printed media (newspapers and magazines) and digital media (news portals and blogs) in the period 2018-2019. A survey allowed to know where each media is located in the State of Paraná and, therefore, trace a digital map of access to each of the media initiatives. The map allows you to view the concentration of news media in certain places, as well as the media absence that still exist. The crossing of data such as location, IDH, degree of urbanization, PIB and others, lets discuss why the media journalistic are in certain places and not in others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Staff and budget cutbacks and systemic changes in news media have been widely documented by journalists and scholars, and this qualitative study aims to understand the empirical experience of journalists outside the cities, where isolation, small staff, tight budgets and close communities are the rule. This article reports on part of a study that investigated the experience of journalists in remote and regional media outlets in Queensland and New South Wales. This article explores the more pointed ethical difficulties journalists experience in regional areas, finding these conundrums add layers to decision-making and complexity in the source–journalist relationships. Journalists in regional and remote areas report feeling pressure to take shortcuts in their story writing due to time restraints, to sensationalise or angle stories to suit management agendas, or to write clickbait headlines. They identified these as challenges to their professional practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research is based on the notions of diaspora, press, and digital communication, whose intersection now points to a specific scenario. A scenario of circulations composed at the same time by people, places, technologies, communication organs and symbolic forms. Complex and multidimensional geography, linked by subjectivities and communicative processes, which also includes regional newspapers, traditionally considered as an important link in the Portuguese diaspora. In this article, we ask what journalistic coverage is given to diaspora by the regional media in a context already marked by the digitalization and the emigration of new generations. To this end, we undertook a content analysis in the online editions of eleven media outlets in the center region. Based on a corpus of 170 pieces on emigration and through a set of variables, we observe that the regional media continue to cover journalism in the diaspora limited in time, highlighting the actors and institutional agents and relegating, in many situations to the background, the role and voice of emigrants. Despite the opportunities introduced by digital technologies, we find that journalistic projects have not taken advantage of these possibilities to create a new "network of correspondents" and other ways to interact with emigrants, thus maintaining limited access to the diaspora. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to: 1) make a general contextualization of the situation of journalists in the state of Veracruz, listed as the most dangerous for journalists in recent years; 2) describe the forms that symbolic violence has taken against murdered journalists, through unfavorable and revictimizing representations in media; and 3) make visible the forms of symbolic struggle that have been given by some critical journalists in the state and outside it, to contrast alternative versions to the dominant ones, claim their work, and show their resilience in a still unfavorable context. The article is a new reflection based on the results of previous investigation that used interviews, participant observation and analysis of journalistic articles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The rise of digital journalism allows users to access regional news content from anywhere in the world. In this situation the content is local, but the audience may not be. Drawing on the sociological concept of translocality, the communicative linkage of dispersed geographic locations, this study investigated these emerging long-distance audiences. We combined automated and manual content analyses to (a) investigate the Twitter followership of 146 regional German newspapers and (b) explain the proportion of translocal followers they attract. Roughly one third of followers came from a different German federal state than the newspaper they followed. Papers with a high percentage of translocal followers tended to have older Twitter accounts and came from larger cities than those with fewer translocal followers. Furthermore, they covered regional sports and human-interest stories more, while those with fewer translocal followers placed greater emphasis on infrastructure, event notes, and current traffic information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A significant trend within journalism is the growth of the commentary genre. Another trend is the regional withdrawal within news journalism. News media are closing down district offices, which raises concerns over media shadows and blind spots in coverage. This article addresses both of these trends through a case analysis of the Norwegian newspaper Nordlys. Launching its commentary innovation Nordnorsk debatt, Nordlys aims to exceed its geographical area within these columns, facilitating a regional public sphere in the Arctic region. The article discusses the role of opinion-based journalism in the regional public sphere, within the theoretical perspective of media ecology and institutional theory. We argue that covering the regional level in society is a vital part of journalism's institutional role. In addition, from an ecological perspective, the role of being a regional voice is important in the national public sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Regional journalism presupposes a practice that goes beyond the territorial limits of its vehicles, fueling other locations with news. Based on this, the article seeks to identify which criteria of newsworthiness, according to Silva (2014a), are used by a regional publication to cover the localities nearby or the same state. To achieve this purpose, a mixed methodology was chosen with the use of bibliographical review and content analysis of the articles published by O Progresso, a daily newspaper produced in Imperatriz (MA), during the month of October, 2017, in order to map the news from the surrounding municipalities and to systematize the newsworthiness criteria present in the texts. News from 45 cities, both from Maranhão (home state of the media) and from Tocantins, were identiied. It was also observed that proximity, justice and government are the main criteria for news in the regional coverage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The changes in the journalistic routines derived from the application of the new technologies have special importance in the local press. The reporter journalism is being complemented, and sometimes replaced, by more accessible sources from Internet including the public administrations. Through a content analysis of news published in media with coverage in some municipalities of Great Porto, this study examines whether theses contents are connected to the information presented in official websites of city councils, in addition to subject and authorship. One of the key conclusions is the disinterest of newspapers towards the news from local administrations regardless of topic or authorship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present paper aims to investigate if the narratives disseminated by the O Tibagi newspaper (published in Monte Alegre, current city of Telêmaco Borba – PR) have produced meaning effects related to the locality's history. In order to do so, an analysis of thematic content was performed in the newspaper's anniversary special editions between the years of 1948 and 1964, under two levels: self-reference and outerreference, observing the strategies used in the newspaper's meaning production. On parallel, through the Oral History methodology, interviews were conducted with individuals who experienced the context in which the O Tibagi's speeches were published and through their memories, it was possible to observe the fragility related to the historical aspects concerning Telêmaco Borba, showing that the local history's comprehension occurred from the narratives conveyed in that journal. It is believed that the silences of the O Tibagi contributed to the formation of a founding speech, given that there were few publications about the past previous to the time when the Klabin family's enterprise arrived in the location. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This note calls for a brand of research to investigate hacks and leaks and their role in shaping public opinion and influencing the mainstream news media landscape. Hacks and leaks have become a major source of information for the news media. However, we still lack the tools to assess and measure the phenomenon in a systematic, predictive, concise and coherent manner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Early in 2013 John Mair's swiftly produced edited collection of articles about the impact of the then-recent Leveson Report included two chapters on the regional press. My chapter offered statistical evidence to show that the regional press was the sector with the best track record in terms of complaints to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC). The chapter controversially predicted that any proposed regulation would have no impact on that sector. It hoped that Lord Justice Leveson's highlighting of the problems of the regional press and plea for recognition of its vital community role might prompt positive parliamentary activity. Four years later regulation has had no impact on the regionals, but the bigger issue of the basic viability of the sector remains unresolved. So how healthy is the UK regional press now? Is digital journalism a killer or a saviour? And how long can the regionals survive? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Leveson Inquiry was established to specifically examine the press and not the media in general. UK Prime Minister David Cameron set it up in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid. It looked at the ethics of the press, its culture and practice. The public and judge-led enquiry generated massive media attention inside the United Kingdom and beyond on whether the government should introduce new press regulations or whether the press should regulate itself. Most of the media coverage focused on national press, with regional press getting the least attention. Anthony Longden writes about the enquiry's impact on local press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The proposed reflection is a derivation of the research project developed with the Postgraduate Program Master in Journalism of Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa that has as object of analysis journalistic digital initiatives that are self-nominated independent. The reflection of this article is based on the objective of understanding the participation of these independent initiatives of journalism located in digital platforms in the process of preservation and assistance of the cultural expressions of marginalized cultures. In theoretical contribution, concepts of hegemonic culture, suppression of regional identities, folklore, marginalized groups and the role of the opinion leader or, in an updated context, the activist mediator are approached. As empirical object the independent initiative Real Amazon and the productions realized by the organization are used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

O processo de ingresso das mulheres no jornalismo brasileiro ocorre de forma mais acentuada no século XX. No entanto, há especificidades desse movimento de acordo com a região do país e características dos impressos. Embora a participação das mulheres no exercício do jornalismo no Brasil sobressaia quantitativamente à participação masculina, pesquisas dentro do campo do jornalismo sobre o tema ainda são localizadas. A presente reflexão busca discutir a feminização no jornal Gazeta do Povo (Curitiba) de cobertura regional, analisando não apenas como se deu o processo de ingresso das mulheres, mas também suas contribuições. A fundamentação envolve conceitos sobre jornalismo regional e gênero. A metodologia empregada foi pesquisa em jornais, livros, internet e documentários. Entre os resultados, o estudo revelou a invisibilidade da atuação das mulheres sobretudo nos primórdios do jornal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this essay I discuss how my editorship of Sociological Focus, the official journal of the North Central Sociological Association, simultaneously places me at the margins, in relation to top-tier journals, and in the thick of things, in relation to the authors and reviewers who participate in the journal. All editors face issues related to the review process and, occasionally at least, struggle with decisions. Given the hierarchical nature of the discipline, however, editors of journals at the lower end of the rankings face additional dilemmas related to fairness and access. Concluding that the margin is a bustling place where lots of sociology gets done, I end with a strong plea that we protect our regional journals and keep them vibrant and inclusive. The easiest way to do that is for all of us to publish in them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While a number of scholars have explored the special exigencies of local as opposed to metropolitan journalism, rarely have studies examined such differences in relation to journalism culture as constituted by journalists' professional views. To address the gap in our knowledge, this study reports results from a representative survey of local and metropolitan newspaper journalists in Australia. Findings suggest that territorial context accounts for some significant differences in journalists' demographics, as well as their role perceptions. In line with past research, local newspaper journalists exhibit much stronger support for the community forum and advocacy role. At the same time, and contrary to expectations, there is very little difference in their support of the watchdog role compared with metropolitan journalists. By combining questions about journalistic ideals and enactment in their work, and finding differences in the two, this study also has important implications for the methodological development of survey studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines how some regional newspapers in Australia are engaging with the social media juggernaut Facebook, and looks at the effects of this on their relationships with audiences in a digital world. We highlight how terms such as 'friend' and 'community' mask complex power struggles taking place across these two media platforms. On the one hand, Facebook can facilitate public conversation and widen the options for journalists to access information; on the other, it has become a competitor as news outlets struggle to find a business model for online spaces. We suggest that newspapers and journalists are facing challenges in navigating the complexities of a platform that crosses public/private domains at a time when the nature of 'private' and 'public' is being contested. The article adopts a 'pooled case comparison' approach, drawing on data from two separate Australian studies that examine regional newspapers in a digital landscape. The research draws on interviews with journalists and editors in Australia across three states, and on focus groups and interviews with newspaper readers in Victoria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the questions of ethics and transparency in Russian journalism. The paper explains instances of non-transparent behavior among Russian journalists in light of economic hardship that Russian journalists in the province face in their everyday life. Specifically, this study attempts to explicate the connection between transparency, journalism ethics, and economic and social conditions in which regional journalists function in Russia. This paper argues that morality may depend on economic conditions of an individual and poor economic conditions tend to diminish human dignity. In turn, diminished human dignity more readily puts in jeopardy professional ethical principles and contributes to non-transparent media practices. Poor economic conditions have implications for regional journalism practice in Russia, where they create a vicious circle which Russian journalists fail to break. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Cited non-source documents such as articles from regional journals, conference papers, books and book chapters, working papers and reports have begun to attract more attention in the literature. Most of this attention has been directed at understanding the effects of including non-source items in research evaluation. In contrast, little work has been done to examine the effects of including non-source items on science maps and on the structure of science as reflected by those maps. In this study we compare two direct citation maps of a 16-year set of Scopus documents - one that includes only source documents, and one that includes non-source documents along with the source documents. In addition to more than doubling the contents of the map, from 19 M to 43 M documents, the inclusion of non-source items strongly augments the social sciences relative to the natural sciences and medicine and makes their position in the map more central. Books are also found to play a significant role in the map, and are much more highly cited on average than articles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is the first academic study of a significant twentieth-century periodical genre, the county magazine. Through a content analysis of a successful example, Lancashire Life magazine, it introduces regional differentiation into current scholarship on the middle classes in the second half of the twentieth century. The analysis, from the magazine’s launch in 1947 to the end of the post-war boom in 1973, identifies changes over time in editorial attitudes to class, the South of England, modernity, and the past. These changes correlate closely with wider national images of northern England, with the most confident self-images—of Lancastrians as wealthy, cosmopolitan, and sophisticated, and proud of their history and traditions—coinciding with the popularity of northern culture in the late 1950s and early 1960s. These distinctive regional self-images add to the work of Russell in challenging over-simplified conceptions of twentieth-century middle-class culture as homogenous and ‘national’. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article reports a pilot study which investigated the relationship between regional journalism and social capital in two regional locations in the Australian state of South Australia, and one in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The study aimed to explore the role of local media in facilitating community communication and understanding, and, through this, to shed light on their possible contribution to regional social capital. Although social capital is a contested notion, the article argues that most definitions can be placed into one of three broad categories, and that the results of the study suggest that local media facilitate connectivity in terms of each of these understandings.A number of themes emerged during the study which help to clarify and illuminate the role of regional media in setting the communication context for social capital. At the same time, however, the ways in which local journalists approached their work raised a number of professional and ethical issues. The article concludes that, despite these difficulties, local media at the sites studied appear to facilitate communication between different sections of the community to the benefit of that community, and to contribute to the development of social capital. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article aims to describe the general characteristics of TV advertising in the Colombian Centre Region, and in particular, the tactics and strategies by which it seeks to interpellate the consumer. Both tasks are intended to support the hypothesis according to which the advertising, rather than manipulatng, misleading or inducing the indiscriminate consumption of goods and services, proposes a game to the consumer through its narrative. In turn, the consumer decides whether or not to participate, by submitting to a set of rules of this game. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two South Pacific regional journalism university publications, one digital and the other primarily print-based, have developed innovative and convergent partnerships with the news media industry and have become strategic models. Founded in 1996, Wansolwara, the newspaper of the University of the South Pacific regional journalism programme, has embarked on a publishing partnership with a leading Fiji daily newspaper, the Fiji Sun. Auckland University of Technology's Pacific Media Centre, established more than a decade later, and its news offshoot with an Asia-Pacific focus, Pacific Scoop, is working in tandem with New Zealand's leading independent online media organisation, Scoop Media Limited. Both publishing ventures represent parallel media strategies to combat growing regional censorship represented by Fiji's Media Industry Development Decree 2010. This paper examines case studies of both publications in Fiji and New Zealand. It assesses their publishing profiles and contrasts their independent brands focused on education, environmental issues ' particularly climate change and deforestation ' human rights, resource development, social justice, culture and language with mainstream media within a context of problem-based learning (PBL)and geopolitical strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This work analyzes the hypothesis of Internet work as a platform capable of diversify and enhance the chances of a revitalization of civic participation. In this sense, we wonder to what extent the online versions of newspapers are of more democratic access and participation in relation to the paper versions. Then we develop a comparative study of participation opportunities provided by a set of sites of regional newspapers: "Grande Porto", "Jornal da Bairrada", "Jornal do Centro", "Diário As Beiras", "O Ribatejo", "Região de Leiria", "Jornal do Fundão" and "O Algarve". One of the points of arrival of this analysis is to note that these are of more democratic access, but still have low visibility and consequent participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to describe everyday life in Guadalajara, Mexico, as it shifted toward modernization in the early 1930s. The author explains the transitions the region underwent during the previous decade with particular attention to national crises, such as the assassination of Mexican president Álvaro Obregón Salido in 1928, the government of president Plutarco Elías Calles and the Cristero War. International influences, such as the economic crisis of 1929, are also discussed. Primary sources including newspapers and literary sources are analyzed in order to provide an accurate account of everyday life in Guadalajara.

This paper adopts a system of professions perspective from the sociology of work to assess efforts by Russian regional journalists to redefine the purposes and standards of journalism in an increasingly constraining political and economic environment. Data from interviews and observations at four newspapers in a central Russian province reveal that journalists at these papers have responded to pressures in varied ways, suggesting fragmentation in the occupation. Journalists who came of age during perestroika now avoid public issue reporting, but they seek to maintain jurisdiction over journalistic work by serving as “in-house communicators” for officials, by advising readers on everyday individual needs, and by focusing on literary writing or moral education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores how a community-focused approach to "doing journalism" may be a useful way to encourage college students to engage in public life regardless of their interest in journalism as a career. Findings suggest that one such project at a Midwest university challenged students' preconceived notions about the community they visited and took them out of their comfort zones. It also resulted in some powerful journalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

All scholarly journals face similar challenges – small audiences, tight budgets, and editorial policies and practices that sometimes harden into dogma. Modern Language Association (MLA) regional journals offer a focused example of how member-driven scholarly journals can meet these challenges and, in doing so, change our notions of what such journals can do and how they should look. As publications of smaller-scale professional organizations, MLA regional journals are in a good position to hear and act on their members’ needs; when the duty of serving those members is carried out in an entrepreneurial spirit, editors open up, and can take advantage of, new opportunities for publishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A decade ago, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) ended welfare as we knew it. Since 1996, national media reports of the consequences of welfare reform have been decidedly positive. Yet a handful of journalists for metropolitan newspapers and the nonmainstream press have drawn attention to welfare-related scandals. These scandals have revolved around welfare privatization, an option PRWORA gave to the states. What could the public have known about privatization prior to reform? To answer this question, the authors investigate the elite debate over privatization and how the network news characterized this debate. They analyze the content of congressional testimony and news coverage by ABC, CBS, and NBC and conclude that the networks paid scant attention to privatization, and the coverage they did provide failed to accurately convey to viewers what postreform welfare administration might look like. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article draws upon Spanish sociologist Manuel Castells' theory of the relationship between the space of flows and the space of places, to understand the position of regional news media in the Information Age. It also analyzes the ongoing demand for regionally specific news, and the ways in which regional newspaper journalists negotiate the complex interrelationships between regional, state, national and international news agendas. Castells outlines an historical shift in social structures away from statism, concentrated bureaucracy and hierarchy organized on national lines. The speed of digital communication and the rapid spread of the World Wide Web allow people to access information from outside a region and across the globe faster than regional news outlets can print and distribute newspapers. Regional news media occupy a difficult space given the prevailing social conditions and spatial phenomena. Yet regional newspapers have not been rendered irrelevant in the media industries. Social interests and regional cultures determine that a long-term, ongoing demand exists for a local news source.

The article explores why provincial newspaper managers have shifted from a position of reluctance and uncertainty about new technology to enthusiasm and zeal for the process and product development opportunities it offers. The transformation is assessed in terms of changes in the industrial relations context, market conditions and technological developments between the late 1970s and early l990s. This can be characterized as moving from reactive management to proactive management, and the article examines how the latter reflects the development of new business opportunities through application of new technology to the information-gathering process, the pre-press production process and the product. Data are drawn from case study interviews and trade/professional publications. The analysis suggests that there is evidence of three prime managerial objectives/motives for introducing new technology: cost, control and market. Each of these were of varying importance for managers at different times, and were affected by technological uncertainty and ignorance. Attitudes transformed because of the changing context and the pursuit of functional interest, with the result that newspaper managers are now in a better position to exploit new technology for competitive advantage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews several articles which include "La calidad periodística en un diario regional: los periodistas, el medio y sus lectores," by Lidia De la Torre and María Teresa Teramo, which appeared in the volume 12, 2009 issue of the periodical "Palabra Clave," "Lugares, clichés y discurso demagógico," by Carlos Aulestia which appeared in the 2008 issue of the periodical "Chasqui," and "Carencias, desajustes y retos del nuevo entorno audiovisual venezolano," by Carlos González-Saavedra, which appeared in the 2009 issue of the periodical "Conexiones."

Discusses the functions of the regional speech journal in the United States. Function as a medium through which manuscripts bearing informative content inherent to the region can be emphasized; Discussion of regional history relative to the academic field sponsoring the journal, information relative to regional research and teaching methods; Roles of an editor of a regional journal.