Hyperlocals win funding to track other publishers’ use of their stories

By: Robert Washburn | July 24, 2018

Hyperlocal publishers will be able to track where stories of theirs are being used by other news organisations as part of a funding boost designed to help them make money from their titles. Cardiff University ’s Centre for Community Journalism has secured €250,000 of funding from Google ’s Digital […]

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