PINF and Changing Ideas are delighted to launch the Tenacious Journalist Awards 2027, offering £12,000 awards and dedicated support for journalism aimed at achieving social change. Applications open now! The best journalism doesn’t just investigate stories and keep people informed. Great journalism identifies an injustice and changes things.
Shirish Kulkarni draws on community research in Wales to ask what journalism should offer people already overwhelmed by information, and how public funding might support that work. Much of local journalism is still trying to solve a problem that no longer exists. We built our whole industry around the idea
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