A look inside the local media co-op’s ambitious membership campaign. This article was written by Eliz Mizon for the People-Powered Storytelling series.
Hani Barghouthi shares some highlights and insights from the first public campaign to support the UK’s indie news sector, with a touch of gleeful bragging about its success on behalf of PINF and the participating publishers.
Local councils spend millions to publish notices in newspapers. Almost none of the money goes to small, independent publishers, instead lining the coffers of corporate giants. Jonathan Heawood writes about our attempts to untangle the arcane policies that got us here, and our new effort to fix them.
In a survey released today (17 December 2021), the Public Interest News Foundation reveals that the British public tend not to trust local news that’s produced outside their area.