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Future of News West Midlands Round-up

February 9, 2010

Last night saw the first Future of News West Midlands meetup take place at Birmingham City University’s Perry Barr campus. We started off with a quick introduction before Andrew Brightwell gave a short talk on his background and his involvement in new hyperlocal project, Grounds. Andrew told us how Grounds was the result of a [...]

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Conservatives propose ultra-local television stations

January 19, 2010

In a Parliamentary debate on the newspaper industry last week, Shadow Minister for Culture, Media and Sport, Ed Vaizey MP said that the Conservatives will propose ‘ultra-local television stations’ as a response to the decline of the newspaper industry. Combined with the relxation of media ownership rules they believe this is the correct course of [...]

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