Specialist and local newsbrands report recruitment challenges for junior roles
Lower wages and lack of work experience opportunities may be impacting journalism recruitment.
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National World cuts costs, increases profit as CEO says: ‘Think local, act national, be global’
David Montgomery said National World has an ethos that is mainly “middle market, family and consumer orientated”.
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MPs call for public interest local news fund and accuse major publishers of ‘compromising quality’
Commons Culture Committee says right support could “revive” the local news sector.
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Comedians Nish Kumar and Josh Widdicombe show local journalism is harder than it looks
What happened when TV comedians toured six National World local newsrooms.
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Average UK news media salaries for 2022 revealed (PG salary survey part two)
Our salary survey reveals that almost a fifth of respondents make under £25,000.
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Why are successful paywalls such a rarity in UK local press?
The success of the Manchester Mill poses the question why there aren’t more successful local paywalls in the UK.
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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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