Includes bibliographical references and index.

Community journalism : a concept of connectedness / Bill Reader -- Community journalism's challenge to do journalism / Linda Steiner -- Key works : some connections between journalism and community / Jack Rosenberry -- Bringing scholars and professionals together / Gloria Freeland -- The Minnesota team : key studies of institutional power and community media / Eileen Gilligan -- The human background to research / Eileen Gilligan -- Community journalism and community history / Janice Hume -- Reexamine the history of big-city community journalism / G. Michael Killenberg -- The challenge of measuring community journalism / Wilson Lowrey -- Methodological choices offered from the study of the Norwegian press / Sigurd Host -- Drawing from the critical cultural well / Bill Reader -- Asian and American perspectives on community journalism / Crispin C. Maslog -- A view from outside : what other social science disciplines can teach us about community journalism / John A. Hatcher -- Community journalism as metropolitan ecology / Lewis Friedland -- Considering community journalism from the perspective of public relations and advertising / Diana Knott Martinelli -- The economics of community newspapers / Stephen Lacy -- Broadcasting and community journalism / George L. Daniels -- The developing world : considering community radio in Africa / Guy Berger -- Community journalism in an online world / Hans K. Meyer and George L. Daniels -- Citizens, journalists, and user-generated content / Nicholas W. Jankowski -- Magazines and community / Cary Roberts Frith -- Making the mundane matter / Carolyn Kitch -- Community journalism as an international phenomenon / John A. Hatcher -- Studying the global community of community journalists / Chad Stebbins.

Foundations of Community Journalism is the first and only book to focus on how to understand and conduct research in community journalism--an ever-growing field. With chapters written by established journalism scholars and teachers, this book provides students and researchers with a comprehensive understanding of the multiple theories and methods applied to the study of community journalism, including historical, social-scientific, cultural-critical, and interdisciplinary approaches. It explains what community journalism is as a research concept and offers a range of different approaches to community journalism research. Although there are some how-to community journalism manuals, none concentrates on how to conduct research in community journalism--a focus needed in this era of hyperlocal news and social networking. The body of knowledge presented by the authors would take readers months, perphaps years, of independent work to gather, making this book a must-have reference tools for anybody who is interested in the relationships between journalism and communities.