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Posts Tagged ‘Observer’

‘All news starts off local’

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Apr 26th, 2009

Henry Porter has a nicely evocative piece in the Observer today about life on a regional paper in the 1970s and some important things to say about the importance of local papers. He writes:
All news starts off local. Without reporters dropping into a court case, pestering the manager of an NHS trust, sitting through an [...]


Preston proposes broadband licence fee to pay for journalism

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Apr 19th, 2009

Peter Preston puts forward the idea of a broadband licence fee to pay for jouralism in his Observer column today. Whatever the initial reactions — mine is favourable — it is something which deserves extensive debate.
How to pay for journalism in the future in the UK has become mired in the similar but different debate [...]