Click on the links below for the latest coverage with regard to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Shared Data Unit and News Hub.
2022
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A local democracy reporter has won a prestigious fellowship from a charity that helps to support young journalists.
2021
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Matthew Barraclough, head of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Local News Partnerships, chats to Hal Crawford of Crawford Media -
'Collaboration helps everyone', the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's Matthew Barraclough says in conversation with public broadcast service EITB (in Basque) -
In 2017, the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ launched the Local Democracy Reporting Service to support the production of public interest journalism by local newsrooms. (Public Media Alliance) -
Organisations including a number of hyperlocal publishers have succeeded in winning contracts ahead of the schemeβs expansion (Hold the Front Page)
2020
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The Local News Partnership between the News Media Association and the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ has been βa great successβ which delivers βreal valueβ for audiences across the UK in the form of local public interest journalism, a review of the scheme has found. (News Media Association) -
Smaller publishers should be given a βfairβ chance to recruit local democracy reporters, a ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ review into the scheme has recommended. (Hold the Front Page) -
SDU pools resources around projects which assist publishers and the public dealing with Coronavirus (Behind Local News) -
The first two UK publications aimed at Asian audiences have joined the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs Local News Partnerships Scheme under an expansion to include black, Asian and minority ethnic titles. (Press Gazette)
2019
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As the training scheme returns for 2020, Newsquest and JPI Media journalists are learning new data skills to better serve their local communities (journalism.co.uk) -
Service extended to news platforms aimed at black, Asian and minority ethnic communities in the UK (Press Gazette)
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Call comes after the service reveals it generated 3,500 stories in a single week (Hold the Front Page) -
Study asked partners of the scheme to record all the stories based on the work of democracy reporters (Press Gazette) -
Leigh Boobyer is named Local Democracy Reporter of the year at first ceremony celebrating excellence in the ground-breaking scheme. (Behind Local News) -
Journalists speak of the positive difference the scheme has made. (Behind Local News) -
The expansion will bring the total number of LDRs to 150 (Press Gazette) -
Local Democracy Reporter beats competition from across regional press to be named βInterviewer of the Year.β (Behind Local News) -
Head of Local News Partnerships expects other countries to follow in the UKβs footsteps. (Press Gazette) -
The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ has welcomed news that its local democracy reporting scheme is set to be emulated on the other side of the world. (Hold the Front Page) -
Journalist and researcher Birte Schohaus visits the Oxford Mail to talk about the Local Democracy Reporting Service (SVDJ) -
Iβve been the local democracy reporter for Derbyshire for a little more than a year nowβββand it is safe to say it is just the first step on a long road. (Behind Local News) -
With up to 150 roles around the country now dedicated to local democracy reporting through the Local Democracy Reporting Scheme, youβll regularly see vacancies being advertised as reporters move on. Leigh Boobyer, LDR for Gloucestershire, on why you should consider a job with a difference. (Behind Local News) -
Local Democracy Reporter David Bol, who covers Edinburgh City Council, has been shortlisted for political journalist of the year at the Scottish Press Awards. (Behind Local News) -
A councillor who moved 400 miles away from his constituency has quit after being repeatedly challenged about his absence by a regional daily. (Hold the Front Page) -
Looking outside your newsroom - and your city - for stories comes up with unexpected benefits. Catch up with the main points raised by Matthew Barraclough, head of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Local News Partnerships (LNP), speaking at Newsrewired. (Journalism.co.uk) -
A year after the launch, three strands of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's Local News Partnership give regional newsrooms a lifeline in hard times (Journalism.co.uk) -
An initiative by the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ to improve and sponsor local news reporting has led to improved standards of local news journalism. While this was largely to be expected, the byproduct has been even more exciting: giving the organisation the ability to spot national trends. (FIPP.com) -
Working alongside journalists from other news organisations has been the most rewarding aspect of a busy first year for the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs Shared Data Unit, says its editor Pete Sherlock (Behind Local News)
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ-funded local democracy reporters have filed 50,000 news stories in the schemeβs first year, although the scheme has yet to fill every role. (Press Gazette) -
A pioneering public service reporting scheme between the regional press and the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ has celebrated its 50,000th story being filed. (Hold the Front Page)
2018
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To support local newspapers and news sites, the salaries of nearly 150 reporters are being paid through Britainβs TV license fee, which finances the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ. (New York Times) -
Lachlan Leeming, a Local Democracy Reporter a long way from home, reveals how he explains the detail of his role and his excitement at seeing stories widely shared (Behind Local News) -
In the same week that talk of a no confidence vote in the Prime Minister rumbled on, the Conservative leader of North Norfolk District Council faced challenges of his own. (Behind Local News) -
The Local News Partnership is 'generating significant levels of local public interest journalism', the schemeβs first annual review has found (Behind Local News) -
Newsquestβs Aran Dhillon reveals how the fast-paced Local Democracy Reporter role is holding politicians to account in Warrington and Cheshire (Behind Local News) -
News publishers of all sizes are partnering to βsave democracyβ at the local level; more than 35,000 stories have been published (Nieman Lab) -
A year after the deadline for publishers to apply to become part of the Local Democracy Reporting Scheme, passed, 126 of the 147 roles are now operational. (Behind Local News) -
David Higgerson, digital publishing director at Reach PLC, looks at Freedom of Information requests made possible thanks to the work of LDRs (Behind Local News) -
Johnston Press editor in chief Jeremy Clifford and LNP assistant editor Jason Gibbins presented at the LGcomms Public Service Communications Academy. (Behind Local News) -
Fiona Callingham explains how she dealt with the ominous gaps in her diary as councils - and councillors - went quiet for the summer holiday period. (Behind Local News) -
Faye Brown, a reporter at the Liverpool Echo, on why getting readers to want to read council stories is as important as writing them in the first place. (Behind Local News) -
Steve Shaw, Local Democracy Reporter working out of the Basildon Echo newsroom, shares insights into his job. (Behind Local News) -
Newsquest reporter Bev Holder looks back on her three-month secondment with the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs Shared Data Unit. (Behind Local News) -
Leigh Boobyer, based at Reach Plc title GloucestershireLive, looks back on a story which took him well beyond a council agenda. (Behind Local News) -
Robert Alexander explains what made him respond to an advert for an LDR role at the Peterborough Telegraph... and why he loves the job. (Behind Local News) -
Local Democracy reporter Amy Orton reveals how a passing comment at a meeting led to story which has changed council policy when it comes to spending money. (Behind Local News) -
The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ has widened its definitions of national news ... after stories from a new reporting project have highlighted the value of public interest journalism. (The Drum) -
Glasgow-based Local Democracy Reporter Eddie Harbinson βgoes behind the story of his splash βUnholy Row Over Schoolsβ. (Behind Local News) -
βWe brought traditional rivals together under a collaborative umbrella,β says Pete Sherlock, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ assistant editor, Shared Data Unit. (Journalism.co.uk) -
A new team of regional journalists have started secondments at a project being run as part of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs local democracy reporting scheme. (Hold the Front Page) -
On a recent rainy day, I shuffled onto a high wall in the heart of London, and surveyed the largest march I had ever seen. (Stuff.co.nz) -
Journalists, by their very nature, are a largely cynical bunch who, quite rightly, question all things of all people. (Behind Local News) -
Thereβs $50 million on the table in Canada to support local journalism in the countryβs under-served communities. Whatβs the best way to spend it? (The Conversation)
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The first reporters recruited as part of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ and news industry local democracy scheme are in place and filing copy. (Behind Local News) -
For almost five months, I have become a constant at County Hall β the home of Kent County Council. (Hold the Front Page) -
The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ executive heading up the Local Democracy Reporter scheme has admitted it will not βslow or offsetβ the rate of job losses in the UK regional press. (Hold the Front Page) -
I first heard about the job through a friend, who told me to apply. When I read the job description, I genuinely thought it was the perfect job for me. (Behind Local News) -
Former Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has talked to Facebook and Google about paying into the local democracy reporting scheme funded by the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ. (Press Gazette)
2017
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The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ has today announced the winners of the contracts to employ up to 150 local reporters to cover councils and public meetings across the UK. (Hold the Front Page) -
The βbig threeβ regional press groups have won the lionβs share of contracts to employ up to 150 new ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ-funded reporters to cover council and public meetings across the UK. (Hold the Front Page)
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The lionβs share of contracts for the pool of 150 ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ-funded βlocal democracy reportersβ have been awarded to the UKβs largest local newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror. (Press Gazette) -
Three regional journalists have started secondments at a project being run as part of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs local democracy reporting scheme. (Hold the Front Page)