Date of Award
Spring 5-1-2023
Document Type
Research Paper
Department
English
First Advisor
Michelle Chihara
Second Advisor
Scott Creley
Abstract
In an effort to reflect the importance of local journalism, the following project is a narrative piece reporting on the closure of the OC Weekly, an alternative news source that ended in 2019, which was hardly reported on. This project aims to change that by further demonstrating the severe impact on communities in which these meaningful sources of news disappear, and why they matter. It calls on people to advocate for and change transform journalism into more than corporate-centered news that too often disregards the critical aspect of storytelling. Storytelling brings communities together and is the life of journalism, which this project also heavily focuses on to ultimately urge the importance of holding modern journalism accountable and responsible on what is reported to the people.
Recommended Citation
Montoya, L. E. (2023). Reviving Local Journalism and Storytelling: Reporting on the "OC Weekly". Retrieved from https://poetcommons.whittier.edu/scholars/18
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