Local news media receive far less scholarly attention than national outlets.

Evidence

There is little direct empirical analysis of how local British newspapers report on Muslims, and how this differs from the national press. Local media in general gets much less scholarly scrutiny compared to the national media (Nielsen, 2015) and comparisons in terms of ethics, journalism practices and normative values are even rarer (Firmstone et al., 2022). — Nadia Haq, ‘The National Media Just Sees Muslims…, 18

Categorization

• QUESTION: What would a systematic ethics-and-practices comparison of local versus national journalism actually look like, and why has it not been done?
• SEED: An essay on the scholarly blind spot for local media as a mirror of how the ‘national’ story gets manufactured.