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Monday Entry Deadline For Regional Press Awards

Journalists have until Monday to enter the Regional Press Awards which includes the News Media Association’s Cathryn Nicoll Award for young journalists. Entries for the awards, which highlight brilliant journalism in the local media sector, can be made  through the...

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NMA’s Power of News Showcase Updated

The News Media Association has updated its Power of News showcase highlighting examples of national and regional newspapers’ agenda- setting investigations, campaigns and scoops. The latest examples include the cross- publisher Power Up the North campaign which ran in over...

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Local News Partnership Welcomes First BAME Publications

The Eastern Eye and Asian Sunday have signed up to the News Media Assocation and BBC's Local News Partnership scheme, this follows the announcement in October that the scheme would be opened up to news platforms aimed at ethnic minority audiences....

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Mitchinson: “Quality Journalism is Under Attack”

In an interview broadcast on The Media Show on BBC Radio Four yesterday, James Mitchinson,  editor of The Yorkshire Post, touched on the crisis faced by local newspapers, the importance of fact-checking in the age of misinformation, current attacks...

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