The authors—academics and journalists—discuss a range of issues including:
• Varying news agendas
• News agendas and regional/national identities
• News agendas and ownership patterns
• The viability of regional/non-metropolitan media hubs
• Media policy at national and non-national levels
• Language and non-metropolitan journalism
• Peripheries within peripheries
The authors take full account of the technological and financial challenges facing journalism in the digital age.
Hugh O’Donnell is Professor of Language and Popular Culture at Glasgow Caledonian University. He specialises in cross-cultural analysis of popular cultural products, focusing mainly on soap operas, mediated sport and representations of monarchy.