David Harte
Biographic Data
| ID | 4908315 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Harte |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Harte |
| SIGNATURE | HARTE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birmingham City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2506-1438 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Including dynamics in a network-based stochastic multihazard model
Network models have been previously proposed for spatial cascades of natural hazard events. These have generally not taken time into account, with the cascade of events effectively assumed to occur instantaneously. This study introduces a dynamic, network-based stochastic model developed as a virtual testbed to simulate complex multihazard interactions between multiple temporal processes, often occurring on different time scales. Since state of t…
Reappraising Local and Community News in the UK
Drawing on expert contributions from around the UK, this collection brings together a series of insights into the contemporary local and community news media landscape in the UK. Offering an analysis of the ongoing ‘crisis’ in the provision of local news, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the book provides a critical space for practitioners and scholars to reflect on emerging models for economically sustainable, participatory local news servi…
Reappraising Local and Community News in the UK
The university as intermediary for the creative economy
This article examines the nature and role of courses designed to train creative workers, policy-makers and related actors, in the skills necessary for cultural management, enterprise or intermediation and their relationship in apprehending the sector. The article takes a case study approach, engaging with university policy, student research, reflections from graduates and staff who have participated in a suite of integrated MA awards at a UK univ…
The withdrawal of local and regional news journalism
In Wales, as elsewhere, there has been a steady withdrawal of established professional journalism from newsrooms and communities after decades of redundancies, staff cuts and recruitment freezes. This withdrawal has almost certainly been hastened and intensified by large publishers&s; decisions to maintain high profits to fund regular shareholder dividends. Media Wales publishes more news, owns more outlets and employs more journalists than any o…
Conclusion
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book looks at hyperlocal publishers both as contributors to the public sphere, fulfilling to some extent a normative journalistic role, and as chroniclers of the everyday. It highlights how hyperlocal news was being discussed by commentators and by some academics as potentially playing a role in reinvigorating both communities …
Inside the hyperlocal newsroom
Citizens are seen as active contributors, which in some way has eased the pressure on hyperlocals of having to be constantly finding new material. While On the Wight represents, to an extent, the &s;fictive&s; hyperlocal entrepreneur as discussed widely in policy-focused literature, the publishers draw on a much broader discourse to situate their practice, rather than simply an entrepreneurial one. One other source of income for On the Wight has …
Sustaining hyperlocal journalism
This chapter describes hyperlocal publishers as entrepreneurial subjects as much as journalists. Whilst running hyperlocal websites has become a useful feature of undergraduate and postgraduate journalism training, it is unclear how many emphasise the need for entrepreneurial skills alongside journalistic ones. The chapter explores the underlying attitudes that hyperlocal publishers have towards the economics of hyperlocal within the context of v…
Inside a news black hole – case study of a town with no newspaper
This chapter describes a mix of research methods to gain an understanding of the nature of what many commentators were calling the "news black hole" in Port Talbot. The voice and influence of citizens, however, diminished in the face of cuts and closures. The chapter discusses the ability of Port Talbot&s;s weakened journalism infrastructure to provide information, representation and scrutiny to citizens. Low levels of knowledge may be linked to …
From lost pets to local corruption
This chapter presents an analysis of the UK hyperlocal news sector, largely covering the period 2012–2015. It looks at extent, variety and content of hyperlocal news and information operations and shows how they contribute to local public spheres of information, bringing together empirical data from a range of research methods including a content analysis, a survey and interviews. As well as there being generalist hyperlocals who occasionally car…
Hyperlocal news in context
In this chapter, the authors provide an overview of scholarly concerns about the decline of the local press. For many scholars, hyperlocal journalism can potentially fulfil the role of rejuvenating a &s;denigrated&s; public sphere whose journalism is "turning people off citizenship rather than equipping them to fulfil their democratic potential". The authors begin by looking at scholarly concerns over the impact a declining local press has on dem…
Practising hyperlocal journalism – authenticity and reciprocity
This chapter describes the motivations and practices of hyperlocal journalists. It also describes how hyperlocal journalists draw heavily on a civic values discourse in order to contextualise their practice and how that in turn motivates them to be an authentic voice for citizens. The chapter examines how hyperlocal publishers talk about their news operations. Hyperlocal publishers are very conscious that what they choose to talk about can affect…
Hyperlocal Journalism
In the wake of the withdrawal of commercial journalism from local communities at the beginning of the 21st century, Hyperlocal Journalism critically explores the development of citizen-led community news operations. The book draws together a wide range of original research by way of case studies, interviews, and industry and policy analysis, to give a complete view of what is happening to communities as their local newspapers close or go into dec…
Hyperlocal News
Discourses of Enterprise in Hyperlocal Community News in the UK
In recent years, a new wave of hyperlocal community news websites has developed in the United Kingdom (UK), with many taking advantage of new opportunities provided by free open-source publishing platforms. Given the trend in the UK newspaper industry towards closure and retrenchment of their local and regional press titles, it is perhaps understandable that policy-makers have shifted their gaze to these sites. This article examines the viability…
Reciprocity and The Hyperlocal Journalist
Increased interest in hyperlocal news has led to growing evidence of its economic value, its ability to play traditional democratic roles associated with news, and its merits and deficiencies in comparison with the outputs of a declining established commercial news industry. Given many hyperlocal producers cite the desire to play a role in producing better communities, this paper breaks new ground in examining the social and cultural dimensions o…
Issues in Developing an Audio-Visual Cluster in the West Midlands
The uptake of clusters as a model with which to develop regional economies has been variable since the UK government first issued advice to regional development agencies in the late 1990s. The West Midlands made clusters one of its key strategies for economic growth and nominated the audio-visual sector as an embryonic cluster in order to help support its development. This article examines the development of this cluster from its inception and id…
Hyperlocal Journalism
In the wake of the withdrawal of commercial journalism from local communities at the beginning of the 21st century, Hyperlocal Journalism critically explores the development of citizen-led community news operations. The book draws together a wide range of original research by way of case studies, interviews, and industry and policy analysis, to give a complete view of what is happening to communities as their local newspapers close or go into dec…
Reciprocity and The Hyperlocal Journalist
Increased interest in hyperlocal news has led to growing evidence of its economic value, its ability to play traditional democratic roles associated with news, and its merits and deficiencies in comparison with the outputs of a declining established commercial news industry. Given many hyperlocal producers cite the desire to play a role in producing better communities, this paper breaks new ground in examining the social and cultural dimensions o…
Discourses of Enterprise in Hyperlocal Community News in the UK
In recent years, a new wave of hyperlocal community news websites has developed in the United Kingdom (UK), with many taking advantage of new opportunities provided by free open-source publishing platforms. Given the trend in the UK newspaper industry towards closure and retrenchment of their local and regional press titles, it is perhaps understandable that policy-makers have shifted their gaze to these sites. This article examines the viability…
Issues in Developing an Audio-Visual Cluster in the West Midlands
The uptake of clusters as a model with which to develop regional economies has been variable since the UK government first issued advice to regional development agencies in the late 1990s. The West Midlands made clusters one of its key strategies for economic growth and nominated the audio-visual sector as an embryonic cluster in order to help support its development. This article examines the development of this cluster from its inception and id…
Hyperlocal News
Discourses of Enterprise in Hyperlocal Community News in the UK
In recent years, a new wave of hyperlocal community news websites has developed in the United Kingdom (UK), with many taking advantage of new opportunities provided by free open-source publishing platforms. Given the trend in the UK newspaper industry towards closure and retrenchment of their local and regional press titles, it is perhaps understandable that policy-makers have shifted their gaze to these sites. This article examines the viability…
Reciprocity and The Hyperlocal Journalist
Increased interest in hyperlocal news has led to growing evidence of its economic value, its ability to play traditional democratic roles associated with news, and its merits and deficiencies in comparison with the outputs of a declining established commercial news industry. Given many hyperlocal producers cite the desire to play a role in producing better communities, this paper breaks new ground in examining the social and cultural dimensions o…
The withdrawal of local and regional news journalism
In Wales, as elsewhere, there has been a steady withdrawal of established professional journalism from newsrooms and communities after decades of redundancies, staff cuts and recruitment freezes. This withdrawal has almost certainly been hastened and intensified by large publishers&s; decisions to maintain high profits to fund regular shareholder dividends. Media Wales publishes more news, owns more outlets and employs more journalists than any o…
Conclusion
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book looks at hyperlocal publishers both as contributors to the public sphere, fulfilling to some extent a normative journalistic role, and as chroniclers of the everyday. It highlights how hyperlocal news was being discussed by commentators and by some academics as potentially playing a role in reinvigorating both communities …
Inside the hyperlocal newsroom
Citizens are seen as active contributors, which in some way has eased the pressure on hyperlocals of having to be constantly finding new material. While On the Wight represents, to an extent, the &s;fictive&s; hyperlocal entrepreneur as discussed widely in policy-focused literature, the publishers draw on a much broader discourse to situate their practice, rather than simply an entrepreneurial one. One other source of income for On the Wight has …
Sustaining hyperlocal journalism
This chapter describes hyperlocal publishers as entrepreneurial subjects as much as journalists. Whilst running hyperlocal websites has become a useful feature of undergraduate and postgraduate journalism training, it is unclear how many emphasise the need for entrepreneurial skills alongside journalistic ones. The chapter explores the underlying attitudes that hyperlocal publishers have towards the economics of hyperlocal within the context of v…
Inside a news black hole – case study of a town with no newspaper
This chapter describes a mix of research methods to gain an understanding of the nature of what many commentators were calling the "news black hole" in Port Talbot. The voice and influence of citizens, however, diminished in the face of cuts and closures. The chapter discusses the ability of Port Talbot&s;s weakened journalism infrastructure to provide information, representation and scrutiny to citizens. Low levels of knowledge may be linked to …
From lost pets to local corruption
This chapter presents an analysis of the UK hyperlocal news sector, largely covering the period 2012–2015. It looks at extent, variety and content of hyperlocal news and information operations and shows how they contribute to local public spheres of information, bringing together empirical data from a range of research methods including a content analysis, a survey and interviews. As well as there being generalist hyperlocals who occasionally car…
Hyperlocal news in context
In this chapter, the authors provide an overview of scholarly concerns about the decline of the local press. For many scholars, hyperlocal journalism can potentially fulfil the role of rejuvenating a &s;denigrated&s; public sphere whose journalism is "turning people off citizenship rather than equipping them to fulfil their democratic potential". The authors begin by looking at scholarly concerns over the impact a declining local press has on dem…
Practising hyperlocal journalism – authenticity and reciprocity
This chapter describes the motivations and practices of hyperlocal journalists. It also describes how hyperlocal journalists draw heavily on a civic values discourse in order to contextualise their practice and how that in turn motivates them to be an authentic voice for citizens. The chapter examines how hyperlocal publishers talk about their news operations. Hyperlocal publishers are very conscious that what they choose to talk about can affect…
Hyperlocal Journalism
In the wake of the withdrawal of commercial journalism from local communities at the beginning of the 21st century, Hyperlocal Journalism critically explores the development of citizen-led community news operations. The book draws together a wide range of original research by way of case studies, interviews, and industry and policy analysis, to give a complete view of what is happening to communities as their local newspapers close or go into dec…
The university as intermediary for the creative economy
This article examines the nature and role of courses designed to train creative workers, policy-makers and related actors, in the skills necessary for cultural management, enterprise or intermediation and their relationship in apprehending the sector. The article takes a case study approach, engaging with university policy, student research, reflections from graduates and staff who have participated in a suite of integrated MA awards at a UK univ…
Reappraising Local and Community News in the UK
Drawing on expert contributions from around the UK, this collection brings together a series of insights into the contemporary local and community news media landscape in the UK. Offering an analysis of the ongoing ‘crisis’ in the provision of local news, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the book provides a critical space for practitioners and scholars to reflect on emerging models for economically sustainable, participatory local news servi…
Reappraising Local and Community News in the UK
Including dynamics in a network-based stochastic multihazard model
Network models have been previously proposed for spatial cascades of natural hazard events. These have generally not taken time into account, with the cascade of events effectively assumed to occur instantaneously. This study introduces a dynamic, network-based stochastic model developed as a virtual testbed to simulate complex multihazard interactions between multiple temporal processes, often occurring on different time scales. Since state of t…
Sociology (10 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Media Studies and Communication (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Business (5 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (5 works) · Journalism (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Social science (4 works)