Local and regional news has been under pressure for years as audiences shifted their attention to digital and classified and display advertising moved to online specialists. The pandemic is now seriously impacting remaining revenues leading many companies to cut staff, stop printing, or be forced into liquidation. This webinar offers an international perspective on how local and regional news is valued across different countries and what sources of local news people prefer as well as the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on these companies.

Anne Schulz is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. She works on the Digital News Project and is a researcher on the Digital News Report. She uses survey data to study news consumption across countries. Before coming to Oxford, Anne was employed as a research assistant at the Department of Mass Communication and Media Research (IKMZ) at the University of Zurich in Switzerland where she was working on the project "Populism in the Context of Globalization and Mediatization".

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