Platform profile: How Patch Labs is trying to help individual journalists bridge gaps left by local papers
Hyperlocal news provider Patch’s start-up, Patch Labs, wants to help local journalists in the US go full-time covering their communities.…
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Local newspaper walk-ins: The good, the bad and the downright strange
For ten brutal minutes, Sam Blackledge stared at a photo of a bruise. The man who brought the photo into…
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Newsnow-funded project to examine how to improve UK local news without simply ‘parachuting in money or solutions’
A news aggregator and journalism charity are teaming up in an attempt to examine the differing ways in which local…
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‘This isn’t an acceptable part of the job’: How journalists and publishers can tackle online abuse
The UK media industry’s first dedicated online safety editor is trying to help journalists move away from the idea that…
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Three-day strike and ‘work to rule’ at Reach suspended for vote on new proposal
Update 3, 12/9/22: A further three-day strike has been put on hold as the NUJ ballots its members at Reach over…
ByHow Bristol became a local news oasis
Newspaper closures and cutbacks have led to large parts of the UK becoming deserts for local news. Bristol, on the…
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Regional ABCs: All titles see circulation drops in first half of 2022 but small uptick in free copies
The UK’s regional print daily newspapers saw their circulations fall by an average of 16% year-on-year in the first six…
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Newsquest closes The National Wales amid cost of living crisis and BBC competition
Newsquest is closing its news website for Wales, The National, 18 months after it launched. Its regional editor said the…
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