Greenslade: ‘PA’s excellent plan to launch “public service reporting”‘
Roy Greenslade offers his thoughts on the Press Association’s (PA) plans for a ‘public service reporting’ scheme in partnership with Trinity Mirror, as reported by Journalism.co.uk yesterday.
He applauds the agency for a ‘bold and imaginative’ move, which, he says, warrants public funding.
“Essentially, it will relieve newspaper editors of their current headaches in trying (and failing) to cover the whole local agenda. The nuts and bolts will be available to them. Instead, their reporters can get on with digging and delving,” he writes.
Interesting comments left on the post too, including one from Blackadder, who claims to be a former PA employee:
“To turn the PA into a fully-fledged public service will involve a root and branch upheaval of the current company, and that will never happen if profit is the watchword. They should not be given a penny of public money.”
