Källans makt över lokalpressen
En fallstudie av Kalmar kommuns arbete med PR och News Management mot lokala medier
In recent decades, public relations and news management have become increasingly important in organizations? communication efforts. This thesis aims to show how the Kalmar municipality works with this type of strategic communication to build the Kalmar brand and how their communication efforts can be improved. The thesis is mainly based on theories concerning Public relations and News Management but also the medias impact on forming opinion. An important issue throughout the thesis is that all theories must be related to the fact that the study concerns an organization in the public sector and the obligations that comes with that fact. To get insight into how the Kalmar municipality works, a number of qualitative interviews have been used. The interviews were conducted with representatives from both Kalmar municipality, and from the local press in order to create a comprehensive picture of the problem area. The results have shown that there are flaws in the way Kalmar municipality work with PR and News Management. Changes that would improve their situation are such as a closer relations to the press, focus more energy on understanding how the media organization work and how they value news and a more structured internal communication in order to give a common outward picture of the city of Kalmar.