Full details of BBC’s £8m-a-year scheme to fund 150 local press ‘democracy reporters’ revealed

News publishers and the BBC have revealed how £8m a year will be diverted from the BBC’s £3.7bn a year licence fee income to help plug the ‘democratic deficit’ in local journalism The money will be used to fund 150 “local democracy reporters”, funded by the BBC, but employed […]

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