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Bucking a trend in local television news

Combating market-driven journalism

David D. Kurpius

Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University, kurpius{at}lsu.edu

This research investigates whether projects and movements designed to change the norms of local television journalism have succeeded. It explores this question through the case of Best Practices 2000 (BP2K), a foundation-funded organization aimed at improving local television public affairs coverage. This research compares BP2K to two other recent attempts to improve or increase local television public affairs coverage - civic journalism and the Wisconsin Collaborative Project. Stations working to improve public affairs coverage are compared to traditional market-driven journalism stations. This study explores the extent to which these efforts can change news coverage, and in doing so deepens our knowledge of the norms of market-driven news routine, which these projects, at least implicitly, question.

Key Words: civic journalism • communication and democracy • public journalism • television news

Journalism, Vol. 4, No. 1, 76-94 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1464884903004001441
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