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Online Journalism Blog: Can the UK government save journalism?

Laura Oliver — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:39:15 +0000

Paul Bradshaw suggests a number of steps (with examples) that the government could take ‘to create an environment that supports good journalism’:

Release of public data
Tax relief on donations to support investigative journalism
Encouraging innovation and enterprise
Reskilling of redundant journalists
An effective local news consortia

Well worth a read – and more suggestions are welcome.

Full post at this link…

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