Franklin Bob, Murphy David. What News? The Market, Politics and the Local Press

Routledge, 1991. — 182 p.The local press: defining the new boundaries; The corporation and the parish pump; The traditional local press; Free newspapers: some of the news that’s fit to print — and much that isn’t; The alternative local press; The municipal free press; Local press reporting of the 1987 general election; Epilogue The local press: what future?
Appendices: Municipal free newspapers in England, Scotland and Wales for general distribution; West Yorkshire newspapers monitored for study of local press coverage of 1987 election;