Over the past few months, the Local News Plans project has been the subject of a lot of interest and discussion, including at a number of journalism conferences, and at the UK Parliament. Here’s a selection of those events:
- APPG Media meeting at the Houses of Parliament in London, UK on March 8th, 2023:
Jonathan Heawood of PINF, Jana Bartlett of NewsNow and Sameer Padania of Macroscope presented the freshly-published Local News Plans report to members of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Media - International Journalism Festival, Perugia, Italy on April 22, 2023:
Jonathan Heawood of PINF, Columba O’Hare of Newry.ie, Rhiannon Davies of Greater Govanhill (standing in for Eliz Mizon of the Bristol Cable, who was sadly unable to participate), and Sameer Padania of Macroscope discussed the Local News Plans approach. - Festival 3i, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on May 5, 2023:
Graciela Selaimen of IRIS, Vanina Berghella of IFPIM, and Sameer Padania of Macroscope discussed New Pathways to Financing Journalism, including the Local News Plan approach. (Here’s some coverage of the panel from the LatAm Journalism Review.) - NewsRewired, London, UK on May 23, 2023:
Jonathan Heawood of PINF and Sameer Padania of Macroscope discussed the Local News Plans approach with Marcela Kunova of journalism.co.uk and the expert audience at NewsRewired.
Macroscope 