Includes bibliographical references and index.

Background and explication. 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 -- Theories and methods. 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 hust -- 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 -- Multimedia and global considerations. 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.