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grant opens up community news journalism networks<br>
26 May 2011 <br>
by Big \lottery Fund<br>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1em;">The<span
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Lottery Fund</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is enabling<span
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Trust</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to create an
innovative UK network of local community news hubs that will support
and empower local groups to tell their stories for online, broadcast
and print media.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1em;">The
Media Trust today receives<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>£1.89
million</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to support
citizen journalism and aggregate, package and distribute community news
stories across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1em;">A TV and
online platform will be supported by professional journalism, UK-wide
news distribution and a new online Academy of Citizen Journalism. The
new Academy will provide community news hubs with the tools, online
training and resources to support and develop the skills of the Active
Citizen Journalists who will be at the heart of the hubs.<br>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1em;">[read
the full article here: <br>
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href="http://bigblog.org.uk/2011/05/26/big-grant-opens-up-community-news-journalism-networks/?fromsearch=-uk">http://bigblog.org.uk/2011/05/26/big-grant-opens-up-community-news-journalism-networks/?fromsearch=-uk</a><br>
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