PINF Programmes Officer Neha shares an overview of the fifth Local News Forum in Belfast, featuring reflections on the panel discussions, and photographs from across the weekend. Last weekend, we brought together local news publishers, journalists, researchers, civic interest groups, funders and others working across the sector for the fifth
PINF Programmes Officer Neha shares five novels about journalism that felt surprisingly relevant to life at PINF. A few weeks into this job, I found myself doing what I assume a lot of others do when they start somewhere new: reading everything I could about the thing I’d just
Some of the most interesting arrivals in independent local news come from people who've already ‘gone global’ and decided, for one reason or another, that ‘the local’ was actually more interesting. The Bath Bee's founder Anu Anand spent 25 years reporting for BBC World Service from
Since 2021, PINF has surveyed independent news providers to understand the shifting shape and size of the sector. Joe Mitchell, PINF's deputy director, introduces the fifth in the series – which could be the most important yet. Over the past four years, PINF has collected data from independent news