That’s what the Manchester Evening News are proposing to do. They’re using CoverItLive. Here’s their coverage of Trafford Council meeting on the 2nd December. Now I’ve used CoverItLive a few times and its settings (if I recall correctly) can and usually do pick up anyone’s tweets. How long before Councillors cop on to this? And [...]
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Should local authorities subsidise independent local newspapers?
In today’s Guardian, (and here with footnotes) George Monbiot asks: “I can think of only two local newspapers that consistently hold power to account: the West Highland Free Press and the Salford Star. Are any others worth saving? If so, please let me know.” His observation …. “Most local papers exist to amplify the voices [...]
We don’t want to read your website. We want to write it.
So: It’s now official. Local authorities are going to be obliged to promote democracy (and the bill is quite prescriptive about the role that the internet will have to play in this). It should make for an interesting seven months. There is often something of a dialogue of the deaf between those who have spent [...]
A few links to be going on with
Just a few interesting things I’ve seen over the past few days that impact further on this councils v local newspapers issue. The first is that – when councils decide to factor in ad-revenue into their communications budgets, it adds a significant amount of uncertainty – because ad revenue can go down as well as [...]
Local authorities, local newspapers and job-ads
In the latest round of the local authorities v local newspapers saga, Scottish newspapers appear to have regained some of the classified ads that they lost to the MyJobsScotland site (“Local government jobs – all on one site!”). This is an interesting one. Now that the c-word is out in the open, surely government should [...]
Populism. And local newspapers.
Two very interesting posts – one via Chris Dillow, and one directly from his site. Firstly, Chris signposts this: “….perhaps it’s “populist” to think political elites always end up in bed with economic elites, but it seems, as a matter of fact, they often do. My opinion is that a certain “populist” enthusiasm for democracy, [...]
Councils v local newspapers?
A few weeks ago, Roy Greenslade picked up on a growing opposition to Council-run free newspapers. As he notes, the opposition comes both from smaller political parties locally, and from commercial rivals that are being edged out – as they see it. Elsewhere, we are seeing growing demands for a journalistic ‘bail-out’ – and not [...]
Local government information – squeezing out local newspapers?
This is interesting: “Ed Balls has called on councils not to undermine local media outlets by trying to compete for readers and advertising revenue with their own publications and websites.” I wonder if Mr Balls has any plans to ask the local newspaper groups to pay journalists to cover local news with a bit of [...]