Oxford Mail digital journalist Sophie Perry tells why she’s started up a supportive community and network for journalists who identify as LGBTQ+…..
For many journalists the high pressure nature of our jobs — from long hours to tight deadlines — means the comradery of community is an exceptionally important thing.
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Is it still OK to wish you a Happy New Year? It’s our first newsletter of the year, so hopefully it is ok — just.
Since the start of the year, we’ve been looking at how ongoing events in Westminster have been playing out in the local news. …
It’s a situation journalists across the UK will have been all too familiar with over the past couple of weeks — Conservative MPs trying to avoid passing comment on events at Downing Street.
The Bishop’s Stortford Independent, however, took a different approach when its local MP, Julie Marson, failed to…
The death of Meat Loaf, the man forever known for hits like I’d Do Anything for Love and Bat of Out Hell, this week obviously made headlines around the world.
(Although not on that many newspaper front pages yesterday — we struggled to find him on any national front covers…
Partygate is just the latest dramatic development to engulf Westminster — and ensure national politics forces its way to the top of the news agenda with ease. …
Journalists in Derby have joined fans of Derby County in their battle to save the club from going out of business.
The Derby Telegraph demanded ‘Save our Club’ on Tuesday amid concerns that the Rams could be gone for good within weeks.
Four months ago, the club announced their intention…
A cross-industry data journalism investigation has revealed heart-breaking stories behind Britain’s dental crisis.
The BBC’s Shared Data Unit, which is part of the Corporation’s Local News Partnership with local publishers across the UK, shared research which showed people were having to wait up to two years for access to a…
Stevenage based ‘The Comet’ has a fresh look this week, with numerous new content strands designed to bring the paper even closer to its community.
The revitalised weekly puts greater emphasis on unique quality content, including a new business section to help traders recover from the pandemic, and the…
MPs overwhelmingly believe that commercial local news media is vital for communities and must not be crowded out by the BBC expanding its own local news services, new research commissioned by the News Media Association has revealed.
Seventy-six per cent of MPs who participated in a YouGov survey in December…
A political editor has paid tribute to an MP following his death, saying his ‘final acts were to give voice to the poorest.’
Jane Haynes, politics and people editor at BirminghamLive, told readers she had spoken to city MP Jack Dromey just a day before he died.
