Title: Community journalism - Wikipedia
Headings: Community journalism
Community journalism
Contents
Figures
History
The journalism debate
Organizations
Examples
Portland, ME
Virginia
London, United Kingdom
Community blogging
Emergence of mobile news
Survey
Results
Purpose
Measurement
Criteria
See also
Notes
External links

Content: You know community journalism when you see it; it is the heartbeat of American journalism, journalism in its natural state." – Jock Lauterer
Contents
1 Figures
2 History
3 The journalism debate
4 Organizations
5 Examples
5.1 Portland, ME
5.2 Virginia
5.3 London, United Kingdom
6 Community blogging
7 Emergence of mobile news
7.1 Survey
7.2 Results
8 Purpose
9 Measurement
10 Criteria
11 See also
12 Notes
13 External links
Figures
In 1995, there were the following community papers: 124 Alternative
192 Black
160 Ethnic
43 Gay and Lesbian
132 Hispanic
106 Jewish
134 Military
155 Parenting
128 Religious
132 Senior
In the United States, about 97% of newspapers are classified as "community" newspapers, with circulations below 50,000. Others in the field say the circulation limit should be 30,000. However, in her book Saving Community Journalism, Penny Abernathy argues that most newspapers under 100,000 should consider themselves community newspapers because their reason for being is service to a community or a group of communities. History
Community journalism got its name from a Montana editor, Ken Byerly, early in his tenure as a professor of journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1957-71. Although the term is relatively new, community journalism has been around since the founding fathers. He used the term as a new name for a course that had been titled "Editing the Country Weekly" because it didn't fit the suburban newspapers that had developed in the 1950s. He chose community journalism because it fit both the weeklies and small dailies of the day.