Local journalists imagine their Muslim coverage as more nuanced than national newspapers

Evidence

In contrast, the study found a very different social imaginary in the interviews with local journalists. This reflected a desire to produce much more nuanced and less sensationalist coverage about Muslims aimed at informing readers in measured ways compared to national newspapers. Furthermore, local journalists were quick to distance their journalism practices from those of national newspapers when it came to stories involving Muslims. — Nadia Haq, ‘The National Media Just Sees Muslims…, 45

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to media-framing literature on how local and national outlets construct different imagined audiences, and to Said’s Orientalism on the national press as a producer of monolithic images.
• SEED: A piece on the local-vs-national press divide as a proxy for scale and moral distance — how beat reporting changes who counts as ‘people like us’.