Municipal Matters

Local Government Reporting and News Values in England’s Provincial Press, 1900–1950

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12604652
AutoresCarole O’Reilly (0000-0002-7792-344X, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen29
Número1
Páginas59-79
Fecha de publicación2022-03-18
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedia History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1368-8804 • E-ISSN: 1469-9729
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13688804.2022.2051461
OpenAlexW4220890638
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas21

This study examines local government reporting in the English provincial press from 1900 to \n1950. It has two main findings – firstly, that the press moved from verbatim council reports \nin the early part of the century to selective news stories that were designed to maximise news \nvalues and commercial revenues. City council meeting reports were re-shaped, re-focused \nand re-formulated to resemble news stories, often featuring on the front pages. They \nconformed to journalistic news values such as drama, conflict and personalities and provide \nevidence of a move to a more news-driven approach to local government reporting. \nThe paper also demonstrates the often-invisible commercial links between some elected \nrepresentatives and the local press, on whose boards of management they sat. Overall, it \nprovides a challenge to the conventional wisdom that the provincial press interest in \nmunicipal issues declined in the twentieth century

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