News organisations are growing increasingly dependent on digital infrastructures for the distribution of news, ai implementation, and management of data. in this article, we argue that this dependency goes beyond the level ...

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 ...

Mediemangfold handler om at mediene bør reflektere ulike synspunkter og perspektiver. Dette er ønskelig fordi en variert dekning av kjønn- og seksualitetsmangfold i media øker bevisstheten rundt seksualitet og mangfold, ...

Many local newsrooms across the globe have been forced to re‐assess (and re‐assert) their value and function during a period of intense digital disruption. “Innovate or die” has become an accepted mantra as governments, ...

The Conclusion of this book is closely connected to Chapter 1. As expressed in the Introduction, these chapters, serving as bookends, are designed to be read in conjunction with each other. In this Conclusion, I reflect ...

This chapter describes how the concepts of crisis, resilience, and innovation are well-suited for capturing how Norwegian news media dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic posed threats to public health, leading ...

Taking the failing two-sided market model of commercial news media as its point of departure, this article introduces a value creation model that unpacks the dynamics of local newspapers’ value creation from a business, ...