All Outputs (3)

Media Law, Interviewing and News Writing: Skills Scottish Community Radio Needs to Expand Its News Coverage (2024)
Book Chapter
Kocic, A. (2024). Media Law, Interviewing and News Writing: Skills Scottish Community Radio Needs to Expand Its News Coverage. In J. Morrison, & S. Pedersen (Eds.), Silenced Voices and the Media: Who Gets to Speak? (47-61). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65403-9

Could community radio, run in the UK on a not-for-profit basis by volunteers without journalistic training, help slow down the decline in local news provision? The majority of community stations in the country already offer news in some form. This us... Read More about Media Law, Interviewing and News Writing: Skills Scottish Community Radio Needs to Expand Its News Coverage.

Community radio as citizen journalism (2021)
Book Chapter
Kocic, A., Coleman, J., Padfield, J., & Milicev, J. (2021). Community radio as citizen journalism. In D. Harte, & R. Matthews (Eds.), Reappraising Local and Community News in the UK: Media, Practice, and Policy (81-93). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003173144-7

Much of the discourse surrounding local journalism in the UK has been related to its demise: whether it be newspaper titles disappearing from the presses, reductions in staff numbers, or regulatory changes relaxing ownership restrictions and localnes... Read More about Community radio as citizen journalism.

Challenges for public service radio in small nations: Lessons from Scotland (2019)
Book Chapter
Kocic, A., & Milicev, J. (2019). Challenges for public service radio in small nations: Lessons from Scotland. In P. Savage, M. Medina, & G. Ferrell Lowe (Eds.), Universalism in Public Service Media (133-150). Nordicom

Scotland does not have any public service radio on a local level, except for a few bulletins or programmes offered by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Radio Scotland on an opt-out basis. Scottish commercial radio stations do cover local iss... Read More about Challenges for public service radio in small nations: Lessons from Scotland.