Guardian Local launch looms
The Guardian web site is hiring for a planned local news project to be launched next year in Cardiff, Leeds and Edinburgh.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/oct/12/guardian-local-news-bloggers-emily-bell
The company is looking for bloggers to cover community news with an emphasis on “local political decision-making”.
The line is engaged
Digital development director Emily Bell said they were focusing on “three politically engaged cities” (whatever that means).
Send the bill to…
The article mentions a $3m handout to US public broadcaster NPR for a hyper-local news project “for a hyper-local news project to compensate for the decline in local press”.
This will pay for “a pool of bloggers [that] will provide news topics of interest to local US communities” (though not so interesting that they’ll pay for the news themselves, apparently).
US Today…UK tomorrow
Apparently, a similar plan is under discussion in the UK that could “give a subsidy to the Press Association to cover local courts and councils”.
I don’t get it. When did we all become convinced that state-funded local media will provide independent local news?
The Guardian web site is hiring for a planned local news project to be launched next year in Cardiff, Leeds and Edinburgh.
The company is looking for bloggers to cover community news with an emphasis on “local political decision-making”.
The line is engaged
Digital development director Emily Bell said they were focusing on “three politically engaged cities”. (??)
Send the bill to…
OK, there’s no mention that the Guardian won’t be footing its own bills here.
However, the article does cite a $3m handout to US public broadcaster NPR “for a hyper-local news project to compensate for the decline in local press”.
This will pay for “a pool of bloggers [that] will provide news topics of interest to local US communities” (though not of such great interest that they’ll pay for the news themselves, apparently).
US Today…UK tomorrow
Apparently, a similar plan is under discussion in the UK that could “give a subsidy to the Press Association to cover local courts and councils”.
I don’t get it.
When did we all become convinced that state-funded local media will provide independent local news?
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