التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
How Loud Does the Watchdog Bark? A Reconsideration of Losing Local Journalism, News Nonprofits, and Political Corruption. |
| المؤلفون: |
Usher, Nikki1 (AUTHOR) nusher@sandiego.edu, Kim-Leffingwell, Sanghoon2 (AUTHOR) |
| المصدر: |
International Journal of Press/Politics. Oct2024, Vol. 29 Issue 4, p960-982. 23p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*NEWSPAPER circulation, CITIZEN journalism, POLITICAL corruption, LOCAL mass media, PUBLIC officers |
| مستخلص: |
Journalism has long been presumed to serve as a check on the powerful, shedding light on wrongdoing; however, as local newspapers reach market failure, extant theory predicts corruption will go unchecked. We operationalize corruption as federal prosecutions for public corruption (PPCs), defined by the US Department of Justice as crimes involving the abuse of public trust by federal, state, and local public officials. We examine changes in the local news media ecosystems: first, whether declines in local newspaper employment and circulation are associated with changes in PPCs; and second, whether efforts to supplement watchdog journalism with nonprofit journalism might mitigate associated declines in federal PPC. Our findings suggest nonprofit interventions in failing local commercial news markets may be an important safeguard for keeping public officials accountable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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