The recently published Cairncross Report on the future of the UK press spoke of a “reduction in public-interest reporting [that] seems to reduce community engagement with local democracy (such as voter turnout) and the accountability of local institutions.” It called for the creation of an Institute for Public Interest News, one of whose tasks might be to … [Read more...]
On creating a ‘Media Democracy’
In the run-up to our big Media Democracy Festival we've been asking people to write blog posts on the central question we're asking at the event: How Can We Create Media Democracy? A few weeks ago we published a great contribution from Resonance FM's Leonore Schick. Here is another from Lucy Johnson who is a Media Studies teacher How? Not by handing a controlling … [Read more...]