If all news is local, then how is the sector responding to the challenges of digital disruption? Hearing from a range of international experts, this panel will explore how local outlets are embracin...
Christopher Ali
Christopher Ali is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and a Fellow of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. His research interests focus on communication policy and regulation, critical political economy, critical geography, comparative media systems, localism, and local news.
His book, Media Localism: The Policies of Place (University of Illinois Press, 2017) addresses the difficulties of defining and regulating local media in the 21st century in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada and the implications these difficulties have for the long-term viability of local news.
