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The Journalism Foundation

published on September 11, 2014 by Mike Categories: hyperlocal #Tagged: Lebedev, Simon Kelner, The Journalism Foundation

Remember them? The non-profit foundation which promotes, develops and sustains free and independent journalism run under the leadership of former editor of the Independent Simon Kelner and supported by the Lebedev family, owner of the Independent and Evening Standard. I had a brief dalliance with them as they started up, less said about that the […]

Poacher turned gamekeeper?

published on August 30, 2014 by Mike Categories: General Rambling, hyperlocal, Social Media #Tagged: Comms2Point0, Dan Slee, lifeboats, Macduff, Press Officers, RNLI, Royal National Lifeboat Institution

Anyone who has been around the hyperlocal scene in the past 5 years or so will know that I have had a healthy disregard for press officers in local government. I’ve had many a good battle with with the more enlightened ones like the legendary Dan Slee, who has now escaped local government to work […]

The State of UK Hyperlocal Community News

published on July 7, 2014 by Mike Categories: hyperlocal, Social Media #Tagged: Dave Harte, Dr Andy Williams, hyperlocal, Judith Townend, Prof Steven Barnett, Report, Survey, Talk About Local

The State of UK Hyperlocal Community News: A Survey

Following on from what was the largest survey of UK hyperlocals, the long awaited report on the state of UK hyperlocal community news has finally been published. The report was written by Cardiff University’s Dr Andy Williams, Westminster University’s Prof Steven Barnett and Judith Townend, and Birmingham City University’s Dave Harte. While the hyperlocal scene […]

Digital Participation Scotland a time for action

published on May 1, 2014 by Mike Categories: hyperlocal, Internet, Social Media #Tagged: broadband, Digital Inclusion, Digital Participation, Internet, Rural Broadband, Scotland

Digital Participation Scotland report from Scottish Government

Over the past few days there have been 3 high profile reports published about Digital Participation Scotland. First to publish was the Scottish Government report Digital Participation: A National Framework for Local Action which was published on 24 April.

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