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A More National Representation Of Place In Canadian Newspapers, Carrie Buchanan
A More National Representation Of Place In Canadian Newspapers, Carrie Buchanan
Carrie Buchanan
In their design and content, North American daily newspapers construct a complex representation of the
locality they serve and its place in the world. That construct involves the quality and quantity of local news,
relative to news in other geographic categories, and how stories from each category are displayed in the
newspaper’s pages. This article describes a content analysis that quantified and compared the representations
of locality and place in the print versions of two Canadian metropolitan daily newspapers between 1894 and
2005. The results show a marked increase in both the number of national stories and the priority given …
Sense Of Place In The Daily Newspaper, Carrie Buchanan
Sense Of Place In The Daily Newspaper, Carrie Buchanan
Carrie Buchanan
The daily newspaper in North America has long been a locally based medium, which offers an opportunity to media geographers to explore concepts of place and locality, and how they have changed over time. This article explores how newspapers create a sense of place about the locality they serve. It reviews some of the major geographic theories of place and the local, as well as the work of communications scholars on how newspapers construct reality in their pages. It applies these ideas to the notion that newspapers construct a sense of place, using both the form and the content of …