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Message started by Administrator on Jul 12th, 2018, 10:58am

Title: Local News Partnership- update
Post by Administrator on Jul 12th, 2018, 10:58am

Ian Burrell writes in his regular "The Drum" column "The News Business",  that the "BBC claims it has 'created a new editorial resource’ as cache of 11,000 stories is unearthed."

This scheme, launched in January and funded from the TV Licence fee, operates 'The Local Democracy Reporter Service- (LRDS) - is based in Birmingham.

The whole article is here, in which he describes the forthcoming Partnership scheme involving "The News Hub" from where local news organisations will be able to take pieces of BBC video and audio news for embedding in their own content."


Title: Re: Local News Partnership- update
Post by Burstner55 on Jul 13th, 2018, 11:52am

Quite a number of now-retired former local radio news producers and reporters will be choking down a giant scoff at this claim of "discovering a new news resource".  Those of us who spent hours "milking the minutes" and attending late night council meetings before labouring over a hot editing machine know that these stories were always there for any energetic news reporter to find. Local radio got lazy and relied too much on local papers for stories and when the proprietors'  accountants made them sterile   shadows of their former beings Auntie was content to fill bulletins and breakfast programmes with froth. In the two decades that followed, councils had a field day, stripping out local democracy and ramping up chief officer salaries. No-one was there to report it. Local journalism, both radio and print, is in a dire state.

Title: Re: Local News Partnership- update
Post by Dickie Mint on Aug 30th, 2018, 8:51am

Seems most of the Local TV content was unusable by the BBC.  Story on a516digital tells of the collapse of Local TV.  And the tremendous waste of Licence Fee money it is.  Just think of all the cuts the BBC made to live within the Fee, and what those wasted millions could have done.

Title: Re: Local News Partnership- update
Post by Burstner55 on Aug 30th, 2018, 2:22pm

Perhaps the local input was actually "news" rather than the garbage that is currently being propagated on-line and elsewhere. The Beeb definition of "news" seems to have been altered in recent years...I used to read better stuff in Hotspur and Eagle. And that was without the sex! Redtop froth is the order of the day.  :(

Title: Re: Local News Partnership- update
Post by Dickie Mint on Aug 31st, 2018, 4:41pm

THey had a bit of leeway:
" The stipulation that the content to be purchased was to be for "diary-based stories", meant that the content purchased covered news events that were known in advance, such as a local town festival or a charity event.  Content purchased could take many forms: for example, a compilation of rushes to make a package, some shots and an interview suitable for a brief news item, a local news vox pop, or even a studio interview, according to the BBC.

In addition, participants in the scheme also committed to granting the BBC ‘first refusal’ rights to acquire off-diary news content that the licensee wishes to sell, including breaking news, investigations and other items that lie outside the monthly quota of diary items.
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Title: Re: Local News Partnership- update
Post by Administrator on Nov 24th, 2018, 11:53pm

The News Media Association wishes to increase the number of BBC- funded LD reporters by nearly 40% to about 200.

According to this "Press Gazette" report by Charlotte Tobitt "the scheme has already begun  'strengthening local journalism'."


The first annual report was issued on the 23rd November and, despite some teething problems both technical and recruitment, the BBC said "already the work of the Local Democracy Reporting Service is having an impact on policy, openness, and the richness of local news-gathering"

Title: Re: Local News Partnership- update
Post by Administrator on Feb 6th, 2019, 2:36pm

Anniversary!

The latest BBC Media Centre statement here reports that..

" A pioneering partnership between the BBC and the local news industry has resulted in more than 50,000 public service stories in its first year and is now attracting international attention from other countries keen to replicate its success. ".

The statement goes on to report that..

" The Local Democracy Reporters have uncovered stories including:

The £24m health centre in Trafford, Manchester, that will never be used and will cost £7m to turn into offices.

The council in Leicestershire that had to hand back £900,000 paid to them by housing developers as the money had gone unspent for too long. This led to a change in policy at the council.

The number of 'near misses' with falling building materials at schools in Edinburgh - including three at a school where a pupil was killed by a collapsing wall. "

BBC Press Office 'twitter':-
"BBC's local democracy reporters have "held councils to account, reversed controversial policies & ensured key decisions are held up to scrutiny""

Title: Re: Local News Partnership- update
Post by Administrator on Feb 8th, 2019, 3:57pm

This BBC news page reports that:-

" Last local paper shuts so elderly ring MP for news.........

Robert Halfon, MP for Harlow in Essex, said many older people did not have access to online news and were left "isolated" when papers close down."

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