Campaign for Real Journalism
Building on our briefing paper on Funding Models, we have produced two further briefs examining alternative avenues of support for public interest journalism. Investigative journalism and local news have faced the sharp end of resource cuts across platforms in recent decades yet they are also foundational to a media system that serves democratic ends. Identifying a range of precedents both domestically and internationally, these documents attempt to synthesise some of the many ideas that have been discussed to date into a set of focussed policy options. None of them should be viewed as definitive proposals or problem-free, but rather as pointers to further research and feasibility studies.
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