Challenging the news : the journalism of alternative and community media /
Susan Forde.
- xvii, 214 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-205) and index.
Understanding alternative and "independent" journalism -- Defining moments in the history of alternative journalism -- Finding the basis for alternative and independent journalism -- Looking for answers: how alternative media journalists engage their audiences -- Connecting with democracy: the "new" alternative media -- Throwing out the bathwater (but not the baby): objectivity, "professionalism" and the economics of alternative journalism -- The global policy environment for alternative and community media forms -- Concluding thoughts: the nature of alternative journalism.
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Online journalism Citizen journalism Alternative mass media