[cma-l] Local News Partnership

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I think the 100% word you are looking for Nigel is     ‘’’balls-up’’’ !           with the prefix   ‘’yet another’’   in front of it.

 

Martin / Bill      When we have the Community Radio awards this year in September, could I suggest another category please --- ??                     the [How to insult people award ?]          the Ivory Towers brigade who we have had to deal with over the past 15 years would win it hands down.

 

You know my feelings on all of this. The suggestions, the schemes, the rules, the regulations the general ethos and mannerisms towards our sector have at best been patronising and at worst downright insulting.

 

We have had our intelligence insulted, we’re third fiddle, we’re a nonentity, but the moment they want to roll something out that blows a bit of smoke up our backside (just to keep us interested ) they do so. And we keep falling for it ….

 

People on this message board can have their own opinions, and if it’s OK with everyone, I’ll keep mine. I’ll cease to be hostile towards these people when they start treating our sector with a bit of respect. I’ll be decent with anyone if they are decent with me … I’m sick of having the p                  1                   *          *  taken out of us.

 

This is how I see it ------------- I jumped on this right from the outset as I smelt a Rat. £8 Million appeared from nowhere, we weren’t included. In fact apart from the original Community Radio Fund, which has gone downhill faster than a greased Pig)  we ain’t had a sausage.

This project would at least be half acceptable if what Nigel suggests was available. The way I see it it isn’t available. Stipulations are in place for the actual ‘’’doing’’’ and ‘’’delivering’’’ of this      ie:- tenders   etc     and quite frankly I have more chance of becoming Prime Minister than Canalside has of dropping one of these Journalists.

The way I read it was you had to prove certain things to a level way up and beyond what the majority of us could do ..so obviously we are excluded on the First Hurdle. We’re never even going to get to the second Hurdle

We don’t want the Journalists we just want the news. I thought the idea of this was to get more coverage    ‘get it out there’   as they say     if that is the case, then you don’t exclude people.

I would also argue if you want LOCAL News out there, one of the best ways to do so would be to FURNISH the LOCAL Community Station with News and Information.

I wouldn’t mind but that £8 Million some of it is my money !   I pay my fee.

 

On a personal note ---- I can report news as good as the next bloke …. I don’t need to have gone to University or Journalist School. If you’ve got a bit of oil in your can and you know the rules     where’s the problem ?

 

Can we stop going to meetings with these characters, can we stop hob-knobbing with em and give em the one fingered salute until the day comes when they decide to treat our sector with a bit of respect.

 

I thought this yet again would be a nice simple process …. They stump up the money --- they get the experts in, they sit in a hub somewhere and feed the news out to ALL of us. Where is the issue ?      the experts get the news, deliver it and we feed it to the masses or as the Ivory Towers brigade think   ‘one man and his Dog’

 

One final thing ---- if the concern is it might not be delivered correctly ------------any Numpty can go and buy two newspapers and then make a complete Horlicks of the report ---- that’s life             if it’s wrong you’ll get dealt with by Ofcom.

 

Just saying it as I see it Ladies and Chaps … in laymans terms. By all means shoot me down in flames ---- trouble is, I don’t think you’ll be able to because like most other things there’s always an element of truth and hell of a lot of ‘’’factuals’’’

 

Keep smiling everyone, keep beavering away, keep on keepin’ on ……. Every Dog has its Day.

 

Regards

 

Professor Nicholas H Dumpty

 

From: cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk [mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Eden FM Radio
Sent: 21 May 2017 18:17
To: The Community Media Association Discussion List <cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Local News Partnership

 

We discussed this a while ago with several people.

We were told, specifically, that the outward flow of news would NOT be allowed to go to community radio stations.

The information we were told, was that this project is to help prop up local commercial newpapers and commercial web news media, who are suffering due to the BBC local news services.

In other words, community radio was to be excluded from receiving any news, as it wasn't designed for us, but to help ailing commercial outlets.

Does anyone know, 100%, what the correct position is?

-Nigel-


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Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 8:44 PM

Subject: [cma-l] Local News Partnership

 

The BBC is inviting applications for the Local News Partnerships project.

 

A partnership between the BBC and the local news industry will offer 150 journalists recruited to report on councils and other local services across the country takes a significant step forward this month.

 

Applications for news organisations that want to be involved in the Local News Partnership opened on 15 May 2017 and close at 12pm on 26th May 2017.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/corporate2/insidethebbc/howwework/partnerships/localnews

 

The Eligibility Criteria are robust:

 

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/reports/pdf/bbc-news-news-media-assocation-partnership-criteria.pdf

 

And further notes on the application process may be found here:

 

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/howwework/partnerships/bbclocalnewspartnerships_guidancenotes.pdf

 

The deadline is very tight and the qualifying threshold may be out of reach of many community media projects. However CMA members, whether or not they wish to bid for contracts under the Local Democracy Reporter Service (LDRS), may still be able to benefit from access to the News Hub which will provide a daily supply of stories from the LDRS for free use by participating media. 

 

Furthermore, community media groups that do not feel sufficiently qualified to apply might nevertheless find opportunities as partners in a consortium bid led by a qualifying news provider such as a local TV channel or a local newspaper. It is expected that large local newspaper chains will submit stand alone bids - however smaller independent local news media may be interested in being part of or leading a consortium. The BBC has indicated that they will welcome consortium bids and that multimedia production capability is a criterion.

 

It is recommend that if your community media project wishes to benefit from this scheme during the short time that applications are invited, determine if any bids are being made in your area and propose joining a local news consortium to the lead bid applicant.

 

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