No-one would deny that both the local and national press are facing problems. In the past decade more than 300 local newspapers have been closed, and two thirds of local authority areas and more than half of parliamentary constituencies no longer have a local daily newspaper covering their affairs. The number of local journalists has decline dramatically, most of those lucky … [Read more...]

The Government has recently announced a review into the sustainability of the press (the Cairncross review). According to its summary of the review’s scope, ‘the UK has always benefited from a strong, well established and diverse press sector’, and the resultant robust high quality journalism is important for public debate, scrutiny, and ultimately for democratic political … [Read more...]