What crisis? National/Metro vs Regional Newspapers.
I’m currently gathering information about the audiences for various media for a couple of projects. One’s about regional media, and it’s foreshadowed in my paper about regional public spheres, soon to be published in Communications, Politics and Culture. The other is about political fans, and I’m presenting on this topic soon in the seminar series of the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. I’ve done some interviews on that score, but I’m also trying to find out - across media - about how large the audience for “hardcore” public affairs content is.
Anyway, while trying to brush up some pretty rusty skills in quantitative data management and presentation, and gathering some figures on audiences across media, I discovered something today that seemed interesting.
That is: if we accept Morgan’s readership figures, it looks like the “crisis” of declining engagement with newspapers is pretty well entirely a metropolitan affair.
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