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  • 5 - The Local Reminiscence

  • Fiona Kisby Littleton, University College London Institute of Education, Susan Bewley, Emeritus, King's College London, James Owen Drife, Emeritus, University of Leeds
  • Book:
    Presenting the First Test-Tube Baby
    Published online:
    23 February 2023
    Print publication:
    16 March 2023, pp 179-200

  • Summary

    In this chapter, a reporter who was a member of the media team who got the very first scoop on the ‘test-tube baby’, taking the newspaper and Oldham out to the rest of the world, reflects on the local story and how it broke. It contains Barker’s original write-up of the 1979 lecture in the Oldham Chronicle and features new information on local women who volunteered for the research programme.

  • 2 - The Great Gutting of US Newspapers

  • Danny Hayes, George Washington University, Washington DC, Jennifer L. Lawless, University of Virginia
  • Book:
    News Hole
    Published online:
    08 September 2021
    Print publication:
    16 September 2021, pp 15-40
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    Once the nation’s preeminent news source, daily newspapers have in recent years seen a massive reduction in their reporting capacity. As a result, residents of cities and counties across the United States now have access to less coverage of their local governments than at any time in modern American history. As the potential for new sources of local news, such as internet start-ups, remains uncertain, the prospect of an unprecedented information crisis looms on the local horizon.