About the project​

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PINF’s vision is for everyone to benefit from public interest news that speaks to them, for them and with them.

 

We wanted to find out how well (or poorly) every community in the UK is currently provided with news, so that we can encourage philanthropists and policymakers to target their resources on the local areas of greatest need.

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The project has two components: a live map displaying local coverage information for each Local Authority District in the country, and a series of reports that are created upon each iteration of updating the data that provide a snapshot analysis of the state of local media provision in the UK.

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Any map is an imperfect, approximate version of reality. Ours is no different: we did not have the capacity to map every single route by which public interest news is conveyed in a local area. 

 

To make the project manageable, we applied a criteria to define local news outlets, which you can see in the Definitions section of the latest report.

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Click on each component to learn more. You can also read more about the project's origins.