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The Geography of Newspaper Circulations: A Spatial Taxonomy of "News(Paper) Deserts" in the United States
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Abstract Using the newspaper circulation data collected through the Alliance for Audited Media (n = 1,925 across five years), this study provides the first empirical spatial analysis of newspaper circulation in the US, employing the theoretical framework of communication geography and the analytical tool of ... view more
Using the newspaper circulation data collected through the Alliance for Audited Media (n = 1,925 across five years), this study provides the first empirical spatial analysis of newspaper circulation in the US, employing the theoretical framework of communication geography and the analytical tool of spatial econometrics. From 2018 to 2022, a steady decline (at an average of 24.1% per year) in newspaper circulation was observed in most of the counties in the dataset, after controlling for spatial and temporal random effects. A positive and significant spatial autocorrelation was found across the US. The local indicators of spatial association results identified four types of spatial clusters that offer a more nuanced understanding of the local spatial distribution of newspaper circulation: news deserts, news oases, news islands, and the fringe of news deserts. The study also used Bayesian spatiotemporal modeling to pinpoint the regions that are more sensitive to the spatial structure regarding the decline of newspaper circulation.... view less
Keywords
United States of America; newspaper; journalism; edition
Classification
Communicator Research, Journalism
Print Media
Free Keywords
United States; communication geography; local indicators of spatial association; news deserts; newspaper circulation
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Page/Pages
p. 304-317
Journal
Media and Communication, 11 (2023) 3
Issue topic
News Deserts: Places and Spaces Without News
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed