local media

Community news outlets

Local media are news outlets—newspapers, television stations, radio stations, and websites—that serve a particular city, town, or region rather than a national or international audience.

The term often appears in discussions of journalism's decline, as local media have struggled financially while national outlets consolidated: The story was picked up by local media.

Local media cover municipal government, school boards, and community events that larger outlets ignore.

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geographic scope

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Communication reaching all nations

network news · national press · mainstream media · national newspapers · wire services

institutional scale

local mediamedia conglomerates

Corporations owning diverse outlets

legacy media · mass media · network television · cable news · media monopolies

community embeddedness

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Primary administrative center nationwide

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