🔥 Join Festival of Debate 2025 as Events Manager! Apply now! 📆 Closing date for applications: Sunday 19th February festivalofdebate.com/updates/2023/j…

BBC review of their econ coverage is up. First glance, looking decent: "We think too many journalists lack understanding of basic economics or lack confidence reporting it. This brings a high risk to impartiality... it particularly affected debt." bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20…

Rousing picket line of teachers, children and parents (and dogs) #TeachersStrike #NEU

Newsrooms! You’ve got until the end of the week to get your responses in to the 2023 survey of indie publishers! The survey is vital to make the case for the sector (see the recent DCMS Select Committee report for example). Get to the survey: publicinterestnews.org.uk/post/launch-be…

At last, a well-earned victory for the super-rich. So glad the Supreme Court felt this worth their time theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

📢 Job Opportunity Alert 📢 Network Coordinator - working between UBI Lab Network 🌍🌎🌏 and Fearless Cities: South Yorkshire - contribute towards the growth and strategy of these vital social action initiatives. Deadline - 9am, 27th March - spread the word! PLs RT loom.ly/ER6wWPU

🚨 Fairbnb.coop launches in the UK 🇬🇧 Discover 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆 while 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆. 🏘️ #BeTheChange -> fairbnb.coop/2023/02/28/fai…

With a concerted effort & funds from government (Department for Culture, Media and Sport HM Treasury @luhc Welsh Government Scottish Government), philanthropy (UK Community Foundations, ACF), tech companies (Google News Initiative, Substack), & others, we could catalyse a new era for #localnews: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Home office staff Q+A going well.

I don’t understand why Devon County Council is removing the semi-pedestrianisation from Queen St, when it’s so busy that pedestrians already have to walk in the road because the pavement’s not wide enough… Cllr Phil Bialyk Ben Bradshaw

🩺What could the community journalism and community healthcare worlds learn from each other? Joe Mitchell - @[email protected] writes up thoughts from a discussion with NHS Start With People about wellbeing and community health reporters: publicinterestnews.org.uk/post/community…

.Public Interest News Foundation published our Index of Indie Publishing 2023 today. 100 publishers kindly filled in the survey - lots on revenue, audience, staffing - and on social impact too. Fill your 🥾👢publicinterestnews.org.uk/pinfindex

COMMUNITY // Let's reclaim local journalism! Invest in local news that matters & help publish the independent journalism Exeter needs in the community-owned newspaper it deserves We're halfway to our fundraising goal, help us with the investment we need exeterobserver.org/2023/05/31/jou…

What a night! 🤩 Thank you to everyone who joined us for the launch of our Collaboration for Democratic Change Guide! 🚀 This is just the start of a movement of collaboration between democracy practitioners and academics ⚡️ Get your copy here!👇 bit.ly/4600LPR

The Public Interest News Foundation, inspired by NewsMatch, wants to pilot a match-funding programme for public interest news in the UK. We'd love your thoughts (and your money) publicinterestnews.org.uk/post/double-th…

Join us for Democracy Coworking today at Newspeak House in Shoreditch - drop in at anytime and meet others working to strengthen democracy in the UK

Can we build a fairer society without reforming our democracy? Our system allows those with the most socio-economic resources to exercise undue influence on politics. Do we need to sever this link before we can expect to make any progress on fairness? faircomment.co.uk/p/can-we-build…

🌹 New research from Labour Together reveals: 💥 Electoral reform would make the most positive impact of any democratic reform - say Labour's key target voters. 📊 Both 'Workington Man' and 'Stevenage Woman' see PR as *more* positive than devolution or Lords reform. (1/5) 🧵

Very excited to share that we are launching the Scottish Beacon website THIS THURSDAY! Sign up here to find out more: eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-th…

⭐️really excited to share a new project i've been working on: People-Powered Storytelling is a new collaborative series from 10 UK-based news and media orgs doing journalism differently. we hope this can be a useful resource for others in this space... publicinterestnews.org.uk/people-powered…