Local reporting ventures offer hope for journalism’s future

By: Robert Washburn | April 7, 2018

This is a message of hope. Hope for journalism. Hope for the public. Hope for democracy. I readily own up to indulging in hype, but two separate initiatives aimed at reinvigorating local and regional journalism engender a rare, and very welcome, optimism. In straitened times for Britain’s newspapers, these […]

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