When the power of the regional press - and its editors - meant something
Roy Greenslade
Roy Greenslade presents another extract from the updated second edition of the book about local journalism, What do we mean by local?* It's by Nicholas Jones
The great illusion: local newspapers can be a massively profitable business
Roy Greenslade
Roy Greenslade presents a third extract from the book What do we mean by local? The rise, fall – and possible rise again – of local journalism It's by Peter Preston
Local news crisis: what crisis? Audiences are bigger than ever
Roy Greenslade
Roy Greenslade presents the penultimate extract from What do we mean by local?. It's by the Newspaper Society's communications and marketing director Lynne Anderson
Local news crisis: look what journalists who know their patch can achieve
Roy Greenslade
Roy Greenslade presents a further extract from What do we mean by local?. It's by Les Reid, political correspondent of the Coventry Telegraph, who speaks up for the values of regional journalism