People want to see news that matters to them. Local newspapers keep people up to date on everything that's going on in a community and they also play a vital role in holding local councils and institu...
Joy Jenkins
Joy Jenkins is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the sociology of news, particularly changing organisational structures and roles in newsrooms, the potential for news organisations to spur public engagement, and gender representations in media. She earned her doctorate in journalism from the University of Missouri in 2017. Her work has been published in multiple academic journals, including Journalism Studies, Journalism Practice, Journalism, and Feminist Media Studies. She previously worked as a copy editor and reporter at an alternative newsweekly in Oklahoma City and as senior editor at a city magazine in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
