Alternative Journalism Alternative Voices 1st Edition by Tony Harcup ISBN 9781135130183 1135130183

PART I Alternative media, alternative voices

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1 Introduction From ‘native reporting’ to ‘native researching’

Journalism in alternative and mainstream media

From ‘Wilkes and liberty’ to the ‘Arab Spring’ and beyond

Alternative journalism

Oppositional Reporting

Journalism in the public interest

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2 An Insurrection in Words1 East End voices in the 1970s

The Basement Writers: a dialogical education

Stepney Words: from classroom to community

Active citizens with a voice

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PART II The alternative local press A critical overview

3 A Northern Star1 Leeds Other Paper and the alternative press 1974–1994

The commitments

Digging deeper

‘I fought the law …’

Part of the union

With a little help from its friends

Eight days a week

Desperately seeking readers

Money’s too tight to mention

One step beyond

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4 The Alternative Local Press1

Who benefits and who loses?

Investigative journalism from the grassroots

A quirkiness of viewpoint

Part of a radical tradition

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PART III Reporting from the ground up Alternative journalism in practice

5 ‘The Unspoken — Said’1 The journalism of alternative media

A plebeian public sphere

Papers produced ‘not by them but by you’

A different cast of voices

Reporting the riots

KDIS: ‘a journalistic space where we can state our ideas’

Contesting ideological space

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6 It Wasn’t All about Arthur1 Alternative media and the miners’ strike

An ethos of self-organisation

‘It was their struggle rather than Scargill’s’

Rage against the ‘lie machine’

Back to the future?

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7 Reporting The Voices of The Voiceless During The Miners’ Strike1 An early form of ‘citizen journalism’

Reporting from the other side of the line

Serving a ‘counter-public’

Journalism from below

A rich record of reporting

A commitment to reporting

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Part IV Alternative media activists Motivations and reflections

8 ‘I’m Doing This to Change The World’1 Journalism in alternative and mainstream media

Asking the journalists

‘Fun … and being part of a cause’

The sample

How and why journalists became involved in alternative media

Individual journalistic practice

Relationship between alternative and mainstream media

Not entirely separate worlds

A continuum of practice?

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Alternative media cited by respondents

Mainstream media cited by respondents

9 Citizens in The Newsroom1 Democracy, ethics and journalism

Democracy and social justice

‘Democratised media practices’

Mainstream journalists find their voice

Standing up to be counted

Journalists are citizens too

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10 Alternative Journalism as Active Citizenship1

Active citizenship as a dynamic concept

Alternative media and ‘radical democracy’

The views of reflective practitioners

The sample

The findings

‘An alternative prism’

Participation and empowerment

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PART V Alternative media today and tomorrow

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11 Alternative Journalism Oppositional reporting in practice

Indymedia: ‘open access’ online

Manchester Mule: ‘openly biased but not ranty’

Mule’s ‘utmost scepticism’

Alternative journalism in practice

Oppositional reporting

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Appendix 1 Statements published in The Other Paper, LOP and Northern Star

Editorial from the first issue of The Other Paper, number 1, published on 10 October 1969, price 9d:

Panel from the first issue of Leeds Other Paper, number 1, published in January 1974, price 4p:

Article from the tenth anniversary issue of Leeds Other Paper, number 310, published on 27 January 1984, price 20p:

Statement in the last issue of Northern Star, number 820, published on 20 January 1994, price 60p:

Appendix 2 ‘Views on the news’

Views on the news

Why have news?

What affects the writing of a news story?

The nature of LOP news

The approach to news

The mechanics of writing a story

Appendix 3 National conference of alternative papers

National conference of alternative papers, Leeds, spring 1984

Editorial

Sexism workshop

Industrial reporting workshop

The arts workshop

News and information gathering workshop

Index