Foundations of Community Journalism

Foundations of Community Journalism is the first and only book to focus on how to understand and conduct research in this ever-increasing field. With chapters written by established journalism scholars and teachers, this book is written to provide students and researchers with an understanding of the multiple approaches such as historical, social-scientific, cultural/critical, and interdisciplinary to the study of community journalism. It explains what community journalism is as a research concept and offers a range of different methods and theories that can be applied to community journalism research. While there are numerous "how-to" community journalism manuals for students and newspaper editors, none contains the focus on how to conduct research into community journalism. This body of knowledge would take readers months, perhaps years, of independent work to gather, this is a "must-have" volume and reference tool for students and readers interested in journalism and communities.